Though she launched the project in 2006, it has only recently been brought to the forefront of social conversations when it became appropriated as a hashtag by white feminists like Rose McGowan. Kelly has been evicted from two houses in Atlanta, dropped from the lineup for a UIC concert, and Tom Joyner is now refusing to play his music after an interview with creator of “Me Too”, Tarana Burke, all the past few months.īurke credits the “Me Too” movement with creating the climate that finally allowed Cosby to face some semblance of accountability for at least one of his crimes. Only recently, after reports about his extremely abusive sex cult surfaced in 2017, has he finally begun to feel the heat for his crimes. Kelly, a man who has a long and well-documented history of preying on underage Black girls and possessing child pornography, has had loyal fans and defenders for over twenty years now. Usher would never have relations with a man and he definitely would never fuck a fat woman, so the accusations of sexual misconduct against him must be false. Kobe Bryant’s accuser is a liar because she only wanted money from the NBA star. Likewise, the woman who accused Russell Simmons of rape must be lying in order to tear a Black man down. Just as Cosby’s defenders insisted that the rape allegations against him were a conspiracy, made only because “he was trying to buy NBC,” so too did actor/director Nate Parker’s defenders, claiming that the rape allegations against him were only brought to the forefront in order to deter audiences from seeing his historically inaccurate Nat Turner film, The Birth Of A Nation (2015). They never have, but Black people have spent too many years putting energy towards defending famous Black men, despite a wealth of evidence and/or confessions, because of a compulsion to protect Black men from the prying eyes and violence of whiteness. Icons of Black media and movements have gone unchallenged on their criminal and abusive ways for too damn long, and hopefully, Cosby’s guilty verdict marks a significant moment that will ensure the downfall of others like him. They exist in our favorite media, in our activist circles, in our workplaces, in our families, and sometimes in our own homes. Men like Cleaver and Cosby have always existed-abusive, predatory, violent. But that’s not sex that’s rape.Īfter a long career of being a sexual predator, the earliest incident is alleged to have happened in 1965, Cosby was finally found guilty on three counts of felony aggravated indecent assault for a rape he committed in 2004. He stated in a 2005 deposition that he purchased quaaludes, specifically with the intention of drugging women to have sex with them.
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RELATED: How I am managing toxic relationships with Bill Cosby rape apologistsīill Cosby is an admitted serial rapist, too. Even though many Black women spent years criticizing Cleaver for what he did, he was still honored and recognized by many in the Black community as an icon and a revolutionary until his death in 1998, by which time he had become a Conservative Christian Republican. He admitted to these actions and ideologies in 1968 with his memoirs, Soul On Ice. It delighted me that I was defying and trampling upon the white man’s law, upon his system of values, and that I was defiling his women-and this point, I believe, was the most satisfying to me because I was very resentful over the historical fact of how the white man has used the black woman. He practiced on “black girls in the ghetto” where he knew the crimes would not be investigated before he eventually ventured across the tracks to methodically rape white women. Editor’s Note: This essay contains discussion of domestic violence, sexual assault, and mentions of r/peĮldridge Cleaver was a predator-a night stalker.