The support of Cosby by black men and women who might otherwise consider themselves freedom fighters in the struggle for black liberation has been perplexing at best and hypocritical at worst, especially when considering that some of Cosby's alleged victims were black, too.
It reveals the dangerous limitations of a black politic of liberation that is concerned with white racial supremacy but not cued into the violent reality of intra-community misogyny and sexual assault. This lack of dual focus has harmed black women throughout history.
~Darnell L Moore
"The Bill Cosby Scandal Proves Why Black Women's Lives Still Don't Matter"
WRITTEN BY A BLACK MAN THAT "GETS IT"
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http://mic.com/articles/121957/the-bill-cosby-scandal-proves-why-black-women-s-lives-still-don-t-matter#.id8byIQeE
This article is right on time. It is a damning indictment of the hypocrisy and denial of the corrosive effects of the rape culture and the misogynoir within the black collective. Those are the things that keeps black communities from exercising the kind of introspection which would prompt addressing issues from within with the same energy that white supremacy is addressed from without.
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