Bill Cosby faced sexual assault allegations at a new civil trial in California Wednesday, where opening statements began to address an alleged attack on a teenage girl at the Playboy Mansion almost 50…
Bill Cosby faced sexual assault allegations at a new civil trial in California Wednesday, where opening statements began to address an alleged attack on a teenage girl at the Playboy Mansion almost 50 years ago.
do you remember [ inaudible ] was? the house? yes, in the basement of the house. his office was in the basement of the house. oh. god. bill cosby controlled every single aspect of that show. so i have no doubt in my mind that he chose what dr. huxtable s medical specialty would be. he could have been a dentist, for crying out loud. but you weren t. you were an ob/gyn. his character bringing women to his home where he is going to examine them it s it s it s outrageous. explain. talk to me about those reactions, kamau. i mean, i think it s when we started when i started working on this, there was stuff that sort of appeared to me, and when i started studying his career that sort of stood out whuns we think about what we know about him now and one of those things was about the fact that that cliff huxtable is an ob/gyn with an office in his
how does somebody like that do what they do over those years and a lot of it is that there are structures in place in the entertainment industry and through the media that allow that to flourish. he is not the only one. all over my instagram and twitter people saying what about all these other people? like, you know, harvey weinstein and all these it s like, yeah, he s not the only one but it doesn t mean we can t have a conversation about him. we all remember his character. i mean, dr. huxtable. that was you know, dr. huxtable. we, black families, right? we idolized that and we, you know, finally were like, oh, this is great. finally, someone that represents educated-black people on tv, and not just jj from good times. not that there is anything wrong with jj walker and and what they did. look, they fed their families and took care of business the way they had to but the huxtables, we look up to. this is from your show. we ll talk about the huxtables. watch this. you remembe
working on this, there was stuff that sort of appeared to me, and when i started studying his career that sort of stood out we think about what we know about him now and one of those things was about the fact that that cliff huxtable is an ob/gyn with an office in his house, which just seems like a crazy job to pick if you are bill cosby doing what you re doing behind the scenes. and i i realized a lot of people didn t realize that. so, a lot of this doc is really just like united shades, it is based on conversation, based on reaction. so i would actually show clips of the cosby show to get people to react to them and that one never failed to get people to go i didn t realize that it was right in front of our faces. we have to do this, i believe. because there are a lot of people out there who say well, how do you separate the artists, right, or the characters or the art from the man? because i mean, look. the cosby show was a brilliantly done show. it changed the culture and