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Broke my heart

posted a month ago by Magicdave (837)
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When I was a young man (I am 73 as of this post), The Cos was my favorite stand up comedian, mainly because he was clean and rarely even said words like hell or damn.
The Cosby Show (The first one with the Huxtables) was one my wife's and my favorite sitcom.
Now, before anyone thinks I am standing up for him because I might possibly be black ... wrong ... I am a white man.
Cosby's style translated with everyone I knew who watched his show - White, Black, Latino, Asian, Man and Woman. He was a person for ALL races, creeds, religions, etc.
Well, this guy is heartbroken over what he did.

Now, on the brighter side, it coincidentally turns out that our favorite stand up comedian now is another Bill, who retired last year - Bill Engvall.

[–] robocat893 (15918) a month ago

I grew up during the 1970s and Cosby was part of my life. Too bad he turned out to be a sexual predictor.

[–] Tam87 (1173) a month ago

His schtick was that he was a harmless black man who appealed to white people who liked to see black men portrayed in this way on tv - clean cut, respectable middle class family man, no whining about whites or a victim complex. This is every white person's fantasy of how they want non-whites to be.

The bitter irony being that pretty much all the women that Cosby raped were white.