Is Bill Cosby getting the Herman Cain Treatment by Going Off the "Blackness Reservation" for Criticizing "African-American Culture"?

I'm not a fan of Bill Cosby after I saw him in his one man show where he treated the audience with indifference verging on contempt. However, the sudden barrage of rape allegations have a suspicious whiff of liberal political blood-sport payback for his being long critical of the actual lack of manners, taste and actual culture that has been emanating from the "African-American Community."  m/r

Bill Cosby’s legacy, recast: Accusers speak in detail about sexual-assault allegations - The Washington Post

By Manuel Roig-Franzia, Scott Higham, Paul Farhi and Mary Pat Flaherty November 22, 2014

Sixteen women have publicly stated that Cosby, now 77, sexually assaulted them, with 12 saying he drugged them first and another saying he tried to drug her. The Washington Post has interviewed five of those women, including a former Playboy Playmate who has never spoken publicly about her allegations. The women agreed to speak on the record and to have their identities revealed. The Post also has reviewed court records that shed light on the accusations of a former director of women’s basketball operations at Temple University who assembled 13 “Jane Doe” accusers in 2005 to testify on her behalf about their allegations against Cosby.

The accusations, some of which Cosby has denied and others he has declined to discuss, span the arc of the comedy legend’s career, from his pioneering years as the first black star of a network television drama in 1965 to the mid-2000s, when Cosby was firmly entrenched as an elder statesman of the entertainment industry, a scolding public conscience of the African American community and a philanthropist. They also span a monumental generational shift in perceptions — from the sexually unrestrained ’60s to an era when the idea of date rape is well understood.

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How Herman Cain and President Obama Brought Down Bill Cosby

John McWhorter

Nov. 21, 2014

With the curtain falling on Bill Cosby’s career in the wake of
multiple accusations of his raping women throughout his career, many
have asked why it took so long for America to condemn the man. This seam
in his past has been aired quite often over the past 10 years, and yet
his iconic status as America’s favorite (black) Dad has continued, with
NBC having even been readying to build yet another sitcom around him
until this Wednesday. What is it about now that is making us — white, black and other — see Cosby plain?

For one, Cosby has alienated many black people with his criticisms of
black behavior, crystallized in the now famous “Pound Cake speech” of
2004 commemorating Brown v. the Board of Education. When black comedian Hannibal Buress charged
that Cosby is a racist, sparking the latest events when the clip went
viral, Buress was explicit that it rankles him that Cosby has called for
black people to “Pull your pants up,” etc. when Cosby himself had,
shall we say, not done so.

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