Another Public Lynching:Bill Cosby

Bill Cosby(78)was arrested yesterday 12/30/15, booked and posted bail yesterday on charges that he took physical advantage of someone in 2004. The person said that she thought of Bill Cosby as her mentor, and that is the reason she followed him around. She was an employee at the college with the Temple basketball women team. According to her, Mr. Cosby made several sexual advances prior to the event she says took place in 2004 in his Pennsylvania home but his advances were rejected by her. After his advances, she went to several engagements with him and dinners and events. In 2005, when charges were bought, the district atty decided there was not enough evidence to charge Mr. Cosby and the charges were dropped. 

In 2006 Andrea Constand was paid by Mr. Cosby as she pursued a civil case and won. No doubt that money has run out and now she has run back to the proverbial well, looking for a much bigger, more wide spread payday. Mr. Cosbys case was sealed after the court case was settled, but was requested by the media and the information in that document, (that was known about by the prosecutors), is now what is being used to re-lynch Mr. Cosby. There have been many other celebrities "Hulk Hogan" is one... that have had their criminal cases sealed and the media has been unsuccessful in getting them unsealed. Unfortunately Mr. Cosby received none of the leverage afforded these others and his business is apparently fair game to those who have chosen to try and further disdain this man to our community. 

The problem with that is how miraculous it is that a case that is over 10 years old can be re-hashed, dressed up and retried, while this past year has brought over one hundred deaths at the hands of local authorities and only seven of those have been prosecuted at all. http://mappingpoliceviolence.org/unarmed/

Mr. Cosby did admit to having a relationship with these women. He said he did wine and dine them and conversed on mutual subjects. He says he did do several favors for them that were of a professional nature. He admitted he did as any man would, and try and take the relationship to another level by getting physical. He explained that there were some women who were not interested in getting anything from him or giving him anything in return. Those women are not up for discussion. 

The women who are up for discussion, however are women who took the time to "be" with Mr. Cosby regardless of his situation. They shared meals with him, took gifts from him, parts in productions from him,money from him and now they wants his lively hood, they want his legacy, his reputation and his dignity. He will be paraded out as years gone by and put on front street for all to see what happens when a black man gets to large-The trial will seek to discredit him at all sides. His family,his friends, his TV shows, his followers,his tenure, his habits. They will all be up for all to see and judge and criticize. The media will camp out at the courtroom, they will do live feeds from the location. The Today show will probably do a remote location in front of the courthouse, and at the end of the day he will be acquitted, and it will be made known they were in fact in a relationship that was spurned by the fact he was a married man and would not leave his wife for her. But the damage will ultimately be done and the sharks will have blood on them as usual. 

With all that is going on, this reporter would caution any rush to judgement by the community. Instead we should take a page from this "watchnight" season and keep your eyes peeled for what else is quickly approaching and coming in our direction. We already know the tricks of the oppressor so now we must wait for the proverbial rabbit to pop out of the hat. #blacklivesmatter