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Source: GLORIA ALLRED AND BLACK MEN When that racist domestic terrorist first killed…
When that racist domestic terrorist first killed nine black people (six of them women) in a church, claiming that "they rape our women," I connected his comment to Donald Trump's statement a couple of days earlier that illegal Mexican immigrants (I assume he meant the men) were rapists. It wasn't until a few weeks later when the never-ending Bill Cosby sex scandal was once again being discussed that I realized that reports of Bill's bad behavior might have been behind the murders. After all, if we can't trust our favorite television doctor and father with white women, what black man can we trust?
It's interesting how the Cosby scandal has evolved. When it started, media folks were discussing his behavior as characteristic of a period (seventies and eighties) when people used drugs to have sex and when it was even seen as funny for men to have sex with drunk or unconscious women. Now it's rape. What's also interesting is the timing of this scandal. The "crimes" that Bill allegedly committed happened years ago. Why are they being discussed by the media now? Why wasn't he called on his bad behavior about a decade ago when he was blaming and shaming black folks, telling us to pull up our pants? Just before the scandal broke, a mostly laudatory (adultery was mentioned but certainly not rape or even drugging women) biography was published, and Bill was supposedly about to star in a new sitcom. Then he and his wife were showing his art collection and planning to discuss it. Was Bill about to make a power move that scared the white folks? Was he trying to take over a broadcast station? It had to be something bigger than just another sitcom that may or may not be successful.
Let me remind you of another black man who was never popular with most of us; his name is Herman Cain. When Cain was running for President in the 2012 campaign, most media folks treated him as a joke. Then he moved to the top of the polls. What happened? Suddenly, we found out that he had been fooling around with white women. And one woman accused him of sexual harassment.
Cain's accuser was represented by so-called civil rights attorney Gloria Allred. Interestingly, she is also very involved in the Bill Cosby case as she was in the O.J. Simpson case and in the Tiger Woods case. Now Tiger was never accused of committing a crime; he just committed adultery with many white women, at least one of whom was represented by Allred. According to rumor, Allred's client reached a financial settlement with Tiger to prevent her from talking. So apparently attorney Allred helped this woman shake down Tiger Woods.
I wonder what we would say about a black male lawyer or just a male lawyer who made his name by going after high-profile white women. And what would we say if that male lawyer used sex to go after high-profile women? Would we call him a feminist attorney? We certainly wouldn't call him a civil rights attorney.
I was disturbed by that magazine cover, showing all of Bill Cosby's alleged victims. Most of these "victims" were white women, and we know what that means. We know about Emmett Till and the Scottsboro Boys. Somebody should tell so--called civil rights attorney Gloria Allred about them. Maybe she would then find new targets for her high-profile cases.
When that racist domestic terrorist first killed nine black people (six of them women) in a church, claiming that "they rape our women," I connected his comment to Donald Trump's statement a couple of days earlier that illegal Mexican immigrants (I assume he meant the men) were rapists. It wasn't until a few weeks later when the never-ending Bill Cosby sex scandal was once again being discussed that I realized that reports of Bill's bad behavior might have been behind the murders. After all, if we can't trust our favorite television doctor and father with white women, what black man can we trust?
It's interesting how the Cosby scandal has evolved. When it started, media folks were discussing his behavior as characteristic of a period (seventies and eighties) when people used drugs to have sex and when it was even seen as funny for men to have sex with drunk or unconscious women. Now it's rape. What's also interesting is the timing of this scandal. The "crimes" that Bill allegedly committed happened years ago. Why are they being discussed by the media now? Why wasn't he called on his bad behavior about a decade ago when he was blaming and shaming black folks, telling us to pull up our pants? Just before the scandal broke, a mostly laudatory (adultery was mentioned but certainly not rape or even drugging women) biography was published, and Bill was supposedly about to star in a new sitcom. Then he and his wife were showing his art collection and planning to discuss it. Was Bill about to make a power move that scared the white folks? Was he trying to take over a broadcast station? It had to be something bigger than just another sitcom that may or may not be successful.
Let me remind you of another black man who was never popular with most of us; his name is Herman Cain. When Cain was running for President in the 2012 campaign, most media folks treated him as a joke. Then he moved to the top of the polls. What happened? Suddenly, we found out that he had been fooling around with white women. And one woman accused him of sexual harassment.
Cain's accuser was represented by so-called civil rights attorney Gloria Allred. Interestingly, she is also very involved in the Bill Cosby case as she was in the O.J. Simpson case and in the Tiger Woods case. Now Tiger was never accused of committing a crime; he just committed adultery with many white women, at least one of whom was represented by Allred. According to rumor, Allred's client reached a financial settlement with Tiger to prevent her from talking. So apparently attorney Allred helped this woman shake down Tiger Woods.
I wonder what we would say about a black male lawyer or just a male lawyer who made his name by going after high-profile white women. And what would we say if that male lawyer used sex to go after high-profile women? Would we call him a feminist attorney? We certainly wouldn't call him a civil rights attorney.
I was disturbed by that magazine cover, showing all of Bill Cosby's alleged victims. Most of these "victims" were white women, and we know what that means. We know about Emmett Till and the Scottsboro Boys. Somebody should tell so--called civil rights attorney Gloria Allred about them. Maybe she would then find new targets for her high-profile cases.
