"Yay! Released on a technicality! He got away with drugging and raping and raping all those women!"
Posted on 07/01/2021 7:37:31 PM PDT by DoodleBob
Former Cosby Show costar Phylicia Rashad, now a Howard University dean, has modified her gleeful reaction to news of Bill Cosby’s release from prison. But not before drawing criticism from her new academic colleagues.
Cosby was sentenced to three to 10 years in prison in 2018 for sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in 2004. He was released Wednesday after that conviction was overturned by Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court over a decades-old immunity agreement.
Rashad, who played Cosby’s wife Clair Huxtable on the hit series, sent out a celebratory tweet on Wednesday when news arrived of Cosby’s freedom.
“FINALLY!!!! A terrible wrong is being righted- a miscarriage of justice is corrected!” she tweeted with a photo of the 83-year-old comedian.
She later walked back those comments somewhat, saying she “fully support[s] survivors of sexual assault coming forward. My post was in no way intended to be insensitive to their truth. Personally I know from friends and family that such abuse has lifelong residual effects. My heartfelt wish is for healing,” she tweeted.
“While Dean Rashad has acknowledged in her follow-up tweet that victims must be heard and believed, her initial tweet lacked sensitivity towards survivors of sexual assault,” Howard said. “Personal positions of University leadership do not reflect Howard University’s policies. We will continue to advocate for survivors fully and support their right to be heard.”
It’s a shame her look didn’t catch on with our nation of black women
Bye, Phylicia!
When you spend year after year pretending to be married, to enjoy being with and to care for someone, it’s very hard to just cut those feelings off, especially if Bill actually did treat Phylicia in a nice way.
She has aged very well.
I have my doubts about Cosby’s conviction. Too much case can be made it was constructed to silence his conservative views.
I’m glad to hear she still has loyalty to him. She stuck up for him then.
I hope she doesn’t let this PCness beat the fairness out of her.
As for Howard’s statements…the fact they say they’ll continue supporting and believing…means they DO a have a political policy.
It should not be “believing accusers” (women). It should be hearing all and looking at facts for true justice.
My hubby thinks he was just basically railroaded. Same reason. Wasn’t saying what the victims and martyrs want to hear.
shame on the university.....group think is a horrible thing... at this point Cosby frame job has started to fall apart and I am betting we will be hearing more about Gloria Aldred involvement in manufacturing 60 accusers. I might be wrong in this view but the last 8 years has taught me that you cant trust the media on anything related molding the culture and taking down Cosby had more to do with molding the black comunity for control by the demacrat party.
She’s learning about the censorship that Republicans have had to endure. Hope it affects the way she votes.
Black Lives Matter… but always secondary to Marxism…
My only comment is we really enjoyed watching the Cosby show in the ‘80’s.
"Yay! Released on a technicality! He got away with drugging and raping and raping all those women!"
She just got cancelled.
This is one of those issues where conservatives get conflicted.
There's only truth, Phylicia. "Their truth" implies a point of view often in contradiction to reality. A sly way of calling Cosby's victims liars.
from what i’ve read here lately on the topic posts, it appears he was railroaded, and illegally so. multiple times.
thet wanted to silence him for speaking unpleasant truths about the black community.
Fun fact: Cosby is not a Conservative. He may have mouthed platitudes, but he never deviated from supporting the far-left politicians. His problem, after spending 6 decades pursuing a sick de facto necrophiliac perversion against countless women, enabled by his wife (a co-conspirator), is that he was simply a rank hypocrite when it came to pontificating on morality.
Make sure when you speak unpleasant truths that you’re not a serial rapist going back 6 decades.
After reading rhe accounts from many of tge women tgemselves I don’t agree.
If a woman is raped by a man, she doesn’t keep voluntarily going on dates with the guy afterwards.
These were women who made the decision to stay around him and enjoy the perks of being around him. Raped women are traumatized by the experience and don’t want to ever be around the guy, much less go on future dates and have fun at the parties and events.
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