assault occurred, but she wrote in vanity fair that she after trying to congress front cosby on the phone but never tried again for reasons that she shareded on the today show. i had just gotten out of a marriage with a very powerful man. so i know what it s like to go up against a powerful man. i had first hand experience. and it s not nice. and it s not easy and it s very expensive. and i realized at that moment that i was no match for bill cosby. johnson said that her decision to finally come forward with weighted with worries about the vulnerabilities of african-american men. it was very difficult because this was a black man and in today s climate, of black males in america, some being executed, it was very difficult for me to
this week ground breaking model beverly johnson told the story of her experience with cosby to vanity fair. in the 1970s and 80s, johnson was at the height of her career as one of the first african-american supermodels, she made history in 1984 when she became the first african-american model to grace the cover of vogue magazine. by the mid 1980s johnson was looking into acts and says cosby asked her to come by his house for an interview for the cosby shoe. johnson recounts what she says happened when she went to cosby s house and he offered her a drink. i took a sip of the cappuccino and i immediately felt really strange. i started to realize that the room started to spin a little and i was getting very woozy, i
us. a lot of these younger players have never seen or been subjected to overt racism and now they are learning a very valuable lesson and even your boss, even the person that pats you on the back but signs your checks can feel that does not want your kind of people at his games that s amazing, stunning, the fact that he has dealt with african-americans since he has owned the team and he is telling his girlfriend he doesn t want black people at his games. and sad fact. scott, i hope the message goes out to especially the fresh players that there are a lot of people who aren t african-american who are standing side by side with him on this and are absolutely appalled at this. well, i think americans stand side by side. everybody that sees this for what it is can stand side by side and understand that this man has problems. is he a racist. and who do you affects it moving forward? you don t show up to the games. maybe these sponsors as they
it gives people a license to say it who aren t african-american to say it. it s been happening for a number of years now. we have a conundrum. they can t say the word. okay, nobody use it. let me ask you this, bring in the possibility of interracial love and relationship in a lovely way without doing weird things around the white man. yeah. are you thinking about potentially tackling the possibility of same-sex love and romance in what has got to be a third best man at some point? we haven t figured out the exact story. i doubt i would go in that direction, i don t know much about that side of the world. even though there s a lot of similarities, again, love is universal. we don t necessarily control who we love. but, you know, that s not in my realm right now. stick with us. i want to continue to push this more, bring other folks to the table. i m thrilled you are going to
brush and the excuse is given, well, there are these statistics that show african-american boys are more violent. using that as an excuse to then see sons treated differently causes pain. and the president also talked about his own experiences being racially profiled. alex, you ll remember that the last time he really addressed race this was back in 2008. these remarks much more personal, extemporaneous in part because this is the second-term president. i think he feels a little bit freer to express his emotions but his comments yesterday i think will certainly impact the national dialogue that is happening right now. i think you are absolutely right. okay. kristen welker, thank you so much. joining me now congressional reporter for politico and an msnbc contributor. perry, i know you have written about the president s comments in your latest articles.