In addition to being rich and famous, Cosby also happens to be black, which is where Floyd Mayweather steps in?
It was only a matter of time until Floyd Mayweather, who feels compelled to expound on every subject under the sun, had his say about Bill Cosby. The man who used to be called ?America?s dad? by people I?ve never met has been stripped of that honorarium, now that dozens of women have come forward with claims that he drugged and sexually assaulted them.
In all fairness to Cosby, he is innocent until proven guilty, and while he?s still making people laugh, they?re not laughing with him, but at him.
In addition to being rich and famous, Cosby also happens to be black, which is where Floyd Mayweather steps in.
Talking with TMZ, he said, for the umpteenth time, ?Racism still exists. It?s no different than the Bill Cosby situation. What he did is not right, but there?s so much police brutality out there, there?s things that we don?t think about it.?
Mayweather is right in saying ?Racism still exists.? He is wrong in saying ?there?s things we don?t think about.? But exactly how Bill Cosby relates to racism and police brutality is a bit of a mystery.
?There?s a lot of young black males, and females, being killed by police,? explained Mayweather, ?but these are things we don?t talk about. We?d rather talk about things than happened 30 or 40 years ago.?
I get Mayweather?s point, and his appalling lack of empathy, but he needs to get his facts straight. Cosby is facing criminal charges from a relatively recent incident, charges which stem from a woman?s accusation that he drugged and sexually abused her at his home in 2004.
Mayweather was asked if he thought Cosby has been singled out because he is black.
?From what I heard,? Mayweather said, ?there was a guy that was with Subway, and I heard there?s another guy that?s an actor. Is it Woody Allen? Those things are going on. But we seem to turn our head the other way and don?t look at things like that.?
Who is this ?we? that Mayweather keeps referring to? The Subway sex pervert Jared Fogle made plenty of news, before being tossed in jail, as did Woody making whoopee with his stepdaughter. By mentioning them as he did, Mayweather confirms that sexual peccadilloes are not a black-white thing, which is reassuring on its face.
Returning to the subject of Bill Cosby, TMZ?s unctuous host, Harvey Levin, tried to steer the conversation back to the subject of race. He asked if Cosby?s troubles have less to do with sex than the color of his skin.
?I don?t really know,? said the man who did time for domestic battery. ?Racism still exists. I?m far from racist. I like and love everyone. But I think there?s more important things in the world that we need to worry about than something that happened 30 or 40 years ago.?
