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Overnight Open Thread (12-1-2014)Aaron Worthing: The Elephant in the Room in the Cosby Rape Accusations Here Aaron considers whether the accusations of rape against Cosby are true in the context of race: But here's my major problem with it. It is not talking about the elephant in the room: the touchy history of black men and white women. Consider this your "trigger warning" if you are the type who needs that sort of thing. And here in my opinion he goes off on a tangent - dragging the Scottboro Boys and Emmett Till into the mix - and decides that the women's concern about not being believed about a rape accusation against a black man is not really credible. The problem is that Worthing misses the giant elephant that's so glaringly obvious that it can be hard to remember at times: Bill Cosby is a celebrity. He's a big celebrity and has been a popular one for 40+ years. So at this point I do believe the rape accusations against Cosby - or to be more precise I believe the probability of all the rape accusations against him being made up to be vanishingly small. This is based on the sheer number of women coming forward, the fact that their accounts go back to the late 60s and have common details (particularly involving blackouts after Cosby give them drugs or a drink), the lack of financial benefit to them i.e. no lawsuits, and the fact some of the women have been publicly telling their stories of being raped by Cosby since the 80s. This was actually the first I ever heard of the accusations but apparently they have come out over the years but never found any media traction or just got hushed up. To me the most damning detail to come out so far is the fact that Hollywood agents and insiders have been warning female clients for decades to never allow themselves to be alone with Cosby which tells you that a) these stories have been around for a long time and b) the insiders believed them enough to warn off their clients despite Cosby being a show biz powerhouse and potential star-maker. Also damning to me is the fact that Cosby won't actually deny the rape claims along with his recent behavior in a press conference where a cowed reporter could barely bring himself to even broach the topic of the rape claims. After listening to the tape of Cosby intimidating the reporter and then browbeating the producer to make the tape with his awkward non-denial disappear, my gut feeling was that this was a guilty man who had been used to getting his way for a long, long time. Except now the rules have changed and it's not so easy to make things go away like it used to be. And I'm not happy about this in any way. I've long liked Cosby even before his Cosby Show days and always had great respect for him. He truly seemed like a great man. But alas the real Bill Cosby appears to have been a far cry from the public Bill Cosby that everyone loved. And if the claims are indeed true, then Bill Cosby has been - with the media's connivance - America's own version of Jimmy Savile .
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