Lovely Day Media wrote:
This brings up another idea in me: what if someone, somewhere is angry with Cosby for engaging in interracial relationships?

If you are saying that this is all because someone is angry with him for engaging in interracial relationships, then you're also saying that there's someone out there with enough hatred regarding interracial relationships AND the ability to pull this off. IF those two assumptions were true (and I'm not saying they are) then there should have been plenty of other black men being burned for it also. Lots of other outspoken public figures to choose from.

I think you overestimate the effect interracial relationships have on people these days.

Kincaid Blackwood wrote:
If you are saying that this is all because someone is angry with him for engaging in interracial relationships, then you're also saying that there's someone out there with enough hatred regarding interracial relationships AND the ability to pull this off. IF those two assumptions were true (and I'm not saying they are) then there should have been plenty of other black men being burned for it also. Lots of other outspoken public figures to choose from.

I think you overestimate the effect interracial relationships have on people these days.

2 things: First, I did say "what if". Second, I should probably let this go because SB is closed, but this is my thinking: as a person who used to be in an interracial relationship, a person just might be surprised at what goes on because of it.

For instance, this woman had a sister who lived next door to her (condo complex). When the sister found out she was dating me, they stopped talking. Eventually they started talking again but not if I was around. A day came when we were all leaving at the same time. The sister's boyfriend pulled his collar up on his shirt so he wouldn't even have to see me for longer than a split second.

A few weeks later, we were in her car going somewhere. I was driving. There was a car tailgating me big time for at least 2 miles before. When we got to this particular intersection, I saw the light turn yellow. I looked in my mirror to see if I was going to get rear ended if I stopped. By this time, it was too late to stop but the light was still yellow. I went through it and got pulled over. The cop insisted that the light was red and didn't want to hear anything about that car tailgating me. He gave me a ticket, too.

That same day, we stopped at a diner along the way (it was getting close to lunch time). The woman asked the waitress (who had taken at least 15 minutes to get to us) for a breakfast menu. The waitress said she couldn't have one because it was lunch time. Okay ... whatever.  2 minutes later, a family came in and sat down. The mother asked for a breakfast menu and the exact same waitress got one for her.  ?? 

She came back with our food and almost broke the dishes with the way she practically dropped them on the table. She slammed the bill down at the same time. We didn't see her again except when she was serving that other family. When it came time to go, I left a nickel on the table. This woman says I shouldn't have left anything. I said if I leave nothing, maybe I forgot. It's far more insulting to leave a penny or a nickel. If I had a penny, I'd have left that. When I got to the register, they asked how everything was.

I said the food was okay, the service sucked bad enough for us to never come back here again. The woman looked at me like I was nuts but didn't say anything.

The cop could've gone either way. Maybe he was anti interracial relationships, maybe he's just an @$$hole, maybe he had a quota to meet or possibly something else I haven't thought of yet. The woman's sister was definitely anti interracial relationships. I can't think of anything else that bothered that waitress so much as she seemed really nice to those other people.

I may well be over estimating the effects of interracial relationships ... but I don't think I am. As I said before ... I'm not nearly important enough for the media to follow. I don't have a pot, a window or 2 nickels to rub together. I know people who could sell ice to Eskimos and pork to Muslims. I can't give cold water to a man who has spent the last 10 days in the desert without water (assuming he's still alive). I have that little influence in the grand scheme of things. 

Also ... maybe there is only one person who has a hardon for Bill Cosby (maybe his sister felt used by the man). He doesn't have the power, influence or money to try destroying everyone who is involved interracially but he does have enough to mess with Bill Cosby.

Figures Jen B wrote:
Oh, let me try again, (bad wording before.)

Women who took settlements for silence should be open to lawsuits by women who were (if) raped afterwards.

Unless of course, the settlement was all they really wanted and not justice...

Where did you read women got paid for silence? If a case settles, no one is up on the stand for testimony. The women can say anything they want outside of court... if they choose to.

Kincaid Blackwood wrote:
I was going to stay out of this discussion entirely but I feel like this comment hasn't been properly addressed/dismissed.

If you are saying that this is all because someone is angry with him for engaging in interracial relationships, then you're also saying that there's someone out there with enough hatred regarding interracial relationships AND the ability to pull this off. IF those two assumptions were true (and I'm not saying they are) then there should have been plenty of other black men being burned for it also. Lots of other outspoken public figures to choose from.

I think you overestimate the effect interracial relationships have on people these days.

I think some people have a BIG problem with interracial relationships. Just because it's PC as a standard in America doesn't mean everyone agrees.

If there is any conspiracy here, I highly doubt it's racial.