BILL COSBY ACCUSER ON PUTTING RACE BEFORE RAPE

Jewell Allison, one of the black women e-raced during the Bill Cosby Scandal

"Like many of the women who say they were assaulted by Bill Cosby, it took me two decades to gain the courage to reveal it publicly. His accusers – mostly white, so far – have faced retaliation, humiliation and skepticism by coming forward. As an African American woman, I felt the stakes for me were even higher. Historic images of black men being vilified en masse as sexually violent sent chills through my body. Telling my story wouldn’t only help bring down Cosby; I feared it would undermine the entire African American community.

When I first heard Andrea Constand and Tamara Green publicly tell their stories about being drugged and assaulted by Cosby, I wasn’t relieved; I was terrified. I knew these women weren’t fabricating stories and conspiring to destroy America’s favorite dad, but I did not want to see yet another African American man vilified in the media. "

~Washington Post

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Beverly Johnson

I've said it before. I'll say it again. There's no way I'd have come forward, publicly, in the 1980s and 1990s if Bill Cosby raped me. After watching black people stampede over Anita Hill to support Clarence Thomas, I'll bet each and every one of his black and brown victims knew she was right to keep her mouth shut.  

Michelle Hurd

The entire black community ought to be ashamed of its support of Thomas, those who actually defended Thomas and those who have parents with cajones enough to admit they supported Thomas.

A huge slice of  the black community ought to be ashamed of its continued support of Bill Cosby too.

The only way to not know that Cosby bought knock out drugs (Quaaludes are not fun time, high drugs) in order to have sex with them simply doesn't want to know. And trotting out...

"only white women were raped by Cosby (if he did it) and why should we care about that if white people don't care about the murders of black men enough to indict"

Renita Hill 

...is problematic in itself if we are claiming to be anti-racist rather than anti-white. This sentiment is also problematic if we are not trying to mimic the worst of white racists.

But one of the worst things about this supposedly pro-black argument is that it e-races black women again.   

Lachele Covington

Our race problems are not only black men problems.  Believe this. Believe this to your bone marrow if you don't already. 
I just read a piece the other day that compared white concern for white female victims of Bill Cosby (as if the black women don't exist) to the lack of white concern for black male victims of white police (as if the black women don't exist). Not one black female name was mentioned in this comparison. And it was damn hard to get non-feminist people to even see this, much less see this as problematic. 

The e-race-sure of black people by white people is so expected it causes more exasperation than outrage...until another police murder occurs. The e-race-sure of black women by black men when they are raped or murdered though damn near AS expected it is galling. But the e-race-sure of black women by other black women? I find that kind almost humiliating in a way that's hard to describe. 

Angela Leslie

We, black women, have got to get smarter about taking care of number one first. That's how you get to have a whole self to give to someone else. It is basic to respect self enough to expect reciprocation and BEFORE they binding to another.  We make one another weaker when we refuse to do this out of some sort of false loyalty.   



Besides, Bill Cosby was telling us who he is long before the Drug-Em-And-Rape-Em scandal broke.
#BillCosbyHatesYou  
Courtesy of BlackTwitter Via Clutch Magazine  
http://www.clutchmagonline.com/2015/12/every-black-person-needs-to-read-billcosbyhatesyou/



Those pictured above are just some of the black and women of color that have accused Bill Cosby of drugging them and/or raping them. I saw an interview of one woman of color, that woke up after being knocked out by Cosby, who doesn't have enough memory left (thanks to the knock out drug) to know what happened to her at all. As I recall she woke up with her clothing on but in disarray.