I can see this, but I can also see how he was a highly-educated, highly-successful, highly-respected black man in an era when all of that was much harder to achieve than it is today. I can see plenty of legitimate reasons why the black community looked up to him.
Bill Cosby's paternalist scolding of black respectability is a reflection of his fascist rape culture not a contradiction.
I can see this, but I can also see how he was a highly-educated, highly-successful, highly-respected black man in an era when all of that was much harder to achieve than it is today. I can see plenty of legitimate reasons why the black community looked up to him.
The “black community” isn’t some monolith. I’m black and Cosby was the butt of jokes, not a respected elder, in my circle as a kid.
Absolutely. I didn't mean to imply that all black people universally loved the guy, but he certainly was popular among many black people.
I think it’s more a generational/class thing. Older, more respectable and richer black people liked him.