Although comedy legend Bill Cosby has never been publically accused of rape, comedian Hannibal Buress has called him a “rapist” in a comedy stint last Thursday.
The Philadelphia native and television icon has been accused of drugging and sexually assaulting multiple women. In 2004, Andrea Constand filed a civil suit against Cosby and 13 other women signed on to testify that he’d also sexually abused them. The suit was settled in 2006 for undisclosed terms.
Buress, a regular on Comedy Central with his stand up shows, went in on “The Cosby Show” patriarch at the Trocadero:
“It’s even worse because Bill Cosby has the f****n’ smuggest old black man persona that I hate,” Buress said. “He gets on TV, ‘Pull your pants up black people, I was on TV in the 80s! I can talk down to you because I had a successful sitcom!’ Yeah, but you rape women, Bill Cosby, so turn the crazy down a couple notches.”
The question remains- why aren’t African Americans in such an uproar about Cosby’s indiscretions? My answer, no one is aware of it. Or wants to be.
Cosby’s rape allegations come as a shock, unbelievable even, that such a reverenced, outspoken leader for the African American community could be guilty of such awful crimes. It attacks our whole hearted, innocent opinion of him, striking him down to levels of a pervert, who got away scot-free with abusing women.
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We would be forced to confront that we were wrong about him, all these years. All the victim stories against Cosby are all eerily similar in nature, with some dating back as far as the 70′s, before the introduction of the well praised “Cosby Show.”
“I don’t know what I’m doing by telling you this,” concluded the New York based comedian. “I wanted to at least make it weird to watch Cosby Show reruns.”
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