I hear alot of people questioning Dr. Cosby's reasons for paying multiple women off to maintain their silence over the years but I believe that thinking of it that way isn't critical enough. People in this country are very fast to believe that a black man is guilty, usually based off of very little evidence. Just look at Troy Davis, Emmett Till, or Trayvon Martin.
With no evidence outside of circumstance, everyone finds it okay to pile on to the anti-Cosby bandwagon in the court of public opinion as it is so just imagine dealing with those accusations in the court of law, where the stakes were higher and the statute of limitations hadn't kicked in yet. Of course Cosby paid them off, most black men would've. Even lawyers advise their clients to take lighter pleas on crimes that they didn't commit based on circumstance. Look at the West Memphis Three.
You have to, to the best of your ability, think the way that Cosby probably was as a black man, especially one who lived through Jim Crow in America (or even just as an average black man in America at any given time in this country's history) in the moments of dealing with those accusations. As a man of color, I could understand why Cosby would rather cut his losses and settle out of court rather than deal with a biased white court system in the 1960s all the way through to this very day. It's not as simple as crusading to the ends of the Earth with such a deck stacked against you in a country where, rich and famous or not, you don't control the narrative as a person of color.
If we did, Chris Brown would never have gotten in trouble because his wealth would've gotten him off, people wouldn't still bring up Michael Vick's issues with the law nearly ten years after the incident, the court's ruling of innocence in the OJ Simpson case would be respected and not be made fun of, and Isaiah Washington never would've been blacklisted in Hollywood but would've had everything swept under the rug the way the predominately white media did with Stephen Collins and Woody Allen to a large degree.
I mean seriously: Cosby must be omnipresent. Seems like he raped a woman every day of his life at this rate....
I mean seriously: Cosby must be omnipresent. Seems like he raped a woman every day of his life at this rate....
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