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I mean, we already knew that Camille Cosby was and is bonkers, right? We established that long ago. It’s been established fact for so long, no one really questions it anymore. We just shrug and accept that Camille Cosby is ride-or-die for her rapist husband. We accept that she’s 100% complicit. We accept that she’s done her part to enable her husband’s rapes and silence and shame and attack his victims. So now that rapist Bill Cosby has been found guilty on three felony counts of sexual assault, Camille Cosby has issued a statement. And it is just as bonkers as you would imagine – you can read the full piece here. Here’s part of it, wherein she compares her rapist husband to Emmett Till. Nope.

The overall media, with their frenzied, relentless demonization of him and unquestioning acceptance of accusers’ allegations without any attendant proof, have superseded the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, which guarantee due process and equal protection, and thereby eliminated the possibility of a fair trial and unbiased jury. Bill Cosby was labelled as guilty because the media and accusers said so… period.

And the media ensured the dissemination of that propaganda by establishing barricades preventing the dissemination of the truth in violation of the protections of the First Amendment. Are the media now the people’s judges and juries? Since when are all accusers truthful? History disproves that…for example, Emmett Till’s accuser immediately comes to mind. In 1955, she testified before a jury of white men in a Mississippi courtroom that a 14-year-old African American boy had sexually assaulted her, only to later admit several decades later in 2008 that her testimony was false. A more recent example is the case of Darryl Hunt, an African American who in 1984 was wrongfully convicted for the rape and murder of a white woman, only to have DNA evidence establish in 1994 that he did not commit the crime. Nonetheless he was held in prison until 2004, serving almost twenty years behind bars, until the true rapist confessed to the crimes.

These are just two of many tragic instances of our justice system utterly and routinely failing to protect African Americans falsely accused in so-called courts of law and the entirely unfair court of public opinion. In the case of Bill Cosby, unproven accusations evolved into lynch mobs, who publicly and privately coerced cancellations of Bill Cosby’s scheduled performances; syndications of “The Cosby Show”; rescissions of honorary degrees and a vindictive attempt to close an exhibition of our collection of African American art in the Smithsonian Museum of African Art. Although the Smithsonian’s hierarchy did not capitulate, a disclaimer was posted on the exterior of that Museum. And all of that occurred before the trial even started.

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Camille goes on to call Andrea Constand a liar who lied under the oath and lied to get money from Cosby, regardless of the fact that the jury was able to hear the deposition from Bill Cosby where he discussed drugging women without their consent so he could sexually assault them. Camille also wants “a criminal investigation of that district attorney and his cohorts. This is a homogeneous group of exploitive and corrupt people, whose primary purpose is to advance themselves professionally and economically at the expense of Mr. Cosby’s life.” She ends this screed by calling the entire trial and retrial “mob justice, not real justice. This tragedy must be undone not just for Bill Cosby, but for the country.” There’s so much Trumpism here, isn’t there? When Trump has a bad day, he says it’s a “bad day for the country.” When Bill Cosby is found guilty, it’s an INJUSTICE for all of America. Camille… just stop. Please.

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