as it turned out, one was a rapist, the other an alleged child molester, and the other a murderer.
I feel bad for African Americans that their icons turned out to be monsters.
Well, allegedly. You don't know for sure that any of them did anything. Only Cosby was convicted which could have been a mistake. I've personally always felt Bill Cosby was guilty. Too many stories by too many different women to disregard. I always thought OJ SImpson was guilty, simply based on the evidence. I always thought Michael Jackson was innocent. A weirdo yes, eccentric, yes - but I never thought he was a child molester. I thought those stories were fabrications in an attempt to get a buck out of him.
shareHave you watched WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT COSBY? It was no mistake. He is a serial drugger and raper of women going back DECADES.
shareI don't think so. I just remember a lot of women making very similar claims against him. It got to the point where you could no longer disregard them. Like I said - I thought he was guilty. Considering the $ he's got and the fact he still ended up in jail (unlike OJ Simpson) - my thinking was confirmed.
shareBut he admitted it.
shareDid he? I didn't know that. I thought he denied everything. Well, that clinches it right there - Bill Cosby was guilty. He's actually out of jail now, right?
shareYou should better inform yourself.
sharehe admitted drugging women in a civil suit that was not supposed to be used against him criminally as he had been granted immunity in that regard; it was unfairly used against him at trial so he was let out of prison on a technicality.
shareGotcha, thanks. Well, the long and short of it is he was guilty. I was right.
shareCosby and OJ yes, but a debate about Michael can be made. There was never any proof of wrong doing on his part. Also, I wouldn't have put it past the record company that he was working for to have set him up. About 20 years later he was leaving that record company while owning a majority stake in it. There is also a video of him on youtube speaking about the evils of record companies, and Hollywood as a whole. He goes into how they control every aspect of their signed artists lives, and if said artist steps out of line there are sever repercussions for their actions. I do believe that it is entirely possible that the record company was afraid he was going to release the flood gates about their evil doings, and so they bumped him off. Even his daughter has come out and said something to that affect.
shareI can't believe you expended that much energy debating that fool Connie93.
shareCelebrities always say that 'its about money'.
And in the Arvizio case, I think it was.
The Chandler allegations from 93 were the most believable.
And MJ paid them off 20 million to make it go away, admitting 'negligence'.
I believe language gives away guilt.
Jordy in his interview with the psychologist said that MJ said that ppl only thought sex with boys was wrong because they had been 'conditioned' by society. Well, MJ used the term 'conditioned by the system' in the JAM song, so that rang true. Jordy also said that MJ made him promise that he would 'never give up his bliss'. Years later I found an interview with MJ where he talks about childhood 'bliss'.
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shareAll the least “plantation” black as could be. None were supporters of their Demokkkrat media/party masters. None were down with “the struggle”.
Cosby was outspoken on getting the black community to take responsibility for itself, so they could empower themselves, and not remain beholden to their Demokkkrat slave masters.
Then he magically goes to trial for supposed crimes that happened 30 years prior based on hearsay. Because this happens so often.
An interesting coinkadink.
The other 2 were never convicted.
Oh, so that's why Cosby was set up. To silence him so BLM can be an uncontested front of black ignorance and zero agency for behavior. Because giving women quaaludes is not "drugging them" to rape them. If that were true than every boomer from the 70s is a rapist for buying women drinks at a bar then fucking them later.
shareSoon followed by Tiger Woods, serial cheater.
shareTo be fair the 80s also had Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Prince, Tina Turner, Philip Michael Thomas, Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, and Mr. T among others.
Admittedly, Cosby's stature was higher than all the names I mentioned, but having the number of black American icons in that decade limited to just three guys is a bit excessive.