How many black victims never came forward because it was Bill Cosby?

— Marsha Warfield (@MarshaWarfield) April 26, 2018

Bill Cosby accuser Lili Bernard reacts to the news that the comedian has been found guilty on all three counts of sexual assault at his retrial: “It is a victory for all sexual assault survivors, female and male.” pic.twitter.com/42Fh6zEJ68

— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) April 26, 2018

I am absolutely thrilled. This verdict couldn't have been delivered to a more worthy criminal. Stay classy, Bill!!! 🎈🎆🎉🎊🎇

1 hour ago, dragonflies said:

 

 

I can't watch reprehensible people ply their trade, which is why I also cannot watch Roseanne.

43 minutes ago, DramatistDreamer said:

 

I can't watch reprehensible people ply their trade, which is why I also cannot watch Roseanne.

this right here.

2 hours ago, Vee said:

I'd like to point out that in the raw video from the courthouse, after spending the first trial and the beginning of this one hobbling and limping around with dark glasses and a cane claiming to be blind, Cosby strode out of there today like Sherman Hemsley in the opening credits of Amen.

 

Camille Cosby: "Damn fool!  I TOLD you that blind act wasn't gonna work!  What, you think because yo' ass was on TV every week that you as good as Sidney Poitier?!  Well, I hope all that booty you snatched was worth it, Bill, 'cuz now yo' Black ass is goin' to jail for the rest of yo' muthafuckin' natural life!"

 

(At least, that's what she says, in my mind.)

Edited April 26, 20187 yr by Khan

4 hours ago, dragonflies said:

 

 

I hope TV One does the same thing and puts on more reruns of Unsung (earlier seasons, that is).

I feel bad for the cast when  the show is taken off, even in reruns, I mean it's not their fault.

 

39 minutes ago, reallyhateskateonlost said:

I feel bad for the cast when  the show is taken off, even in reruns, I mean it's not their fault.

 

Vee, I think, made an excellent point some time ago that the show and the cast's places in TV history is secure regardless of Bill's criminal behavior.  Moreover, thanks to DVD's, streaming and websites like YT, I doubt the show will fade from our collective memory anytime soon.

Edited April 27, 20187 yr by Khan

I was a child who grew up in the 1980s. At that time, Bill Cosby was all over the place. Not just on his sitcom, but Jell-O commercials, Fat Albert reruns, Picture Pages and as the spokesman for Safety Town. He was everywhere. Then you realize what he was doing at the same time in real life...it's just sick. HE'S sick.

Edited April 27, 20187 yr by amybrickwallace

 

Marsha Warfield can probably speak to the emotions of many in the business who either consciously or unconsciously enabled Cosby over decades.

 

I'm seeing on social media that many are angry that they feel stripped of a show that was either a part of their childhoods or a touchstone in their lives.  I guess I have already worked through those emotions last year and now I'm just weary of those thoughts emotions and it's more of a sad resignation that The Cosby Show is now tainted for me (as Malcolm Jamal Warner once intimated) especially when I remember the time I was able to read the Pilot script as a grad student and the joy and admiration that I felt pouring over those pages of dialogue and actions that were written with such precision, any actor reciting those words never needed to add or subtract a single word-- everything was on the page!

 

Then I remember that writers wrote those words, it wasn't as if Bill Cosby wrote the scripts and I can appreciate the hard work of the crew and cast and think that all have likely long ago moved onto other jobs many years ago.  I doubt that they need any reference to The Cosby Show to get their next job, although it is a big career highlight to have to leave off a resume (and honestly I wouldn't leave it off).

 

Something that a lot of people may not be able to understand--the work on the page is different from the work on the screen.  It is unlikely that I'll be able to watch the stories unfolding on the screen but I can appreciate the work, at least the excellent technical work that got it there.

Marsha Warfield was a black gay woman on television in the 1980s when Bill Cosby was king. She was in an impossible position. I understand her angst but I don't fault her.

42 minutes ago, Vee said:

I understand her angst but I don't fault her.

 

I don't, either. I hope she will be able to stop blaming herself. 

With a defense team like this, who needs enemies (and who deserves a team like this more than Cosby)?

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews.go.com/amp/US/bill-cosbys-defense-teams-vicious-strategy-backfired-analysis/story%3fid=54784938