If you're a big star who has accumulated his wealth over the years after rising to fame for having the deadly combination of charm and talent, and the ability to make your audience laugh despite the previous discrimination of your race, trust it to your public relations team to turn the tables for you if ever you come across numerous rape and sexual assault charges.
This may be the plan of "The Cosby Show" star's publicists with regard to the seemingly ongoing list of women claiming to have been sexually assaulted by veteran actor Bill Cosby. Radar Online wrote that a source has told them that the comedian, who was debased further after five more women came up to the spotlight this August to claim to have been drugged and raped by him in the past, finally came to the solution to turn the scandal into an issue of racism.
Accordingly, most of the fifty women whom he have sexually assaulted before are white, and such ravishment having occurred in the '60s and the '70s, the 78-year-old's legal team including D.C. Lawyer Monique Presley now plans to claim that the actor is a victim of racism and is now being targeted by these white women for being "black and famous".
Jezebel highlighted the insider's statement saying that the practicality of the idea is very apparent and logical. As such, if backed by the support of black writers and journalists, the scandal may be put to silence even in the future which is the very goal of Cosby's team.
Former co-stars of the comedian in the Cosby show have shared their sentiment on the issue since the controversy arose. An interview with The Guardian, Zoe Kravitz, daughter of Lisa Bonet who played as one of Cosby's daughters in the show, said that her mother is "equally disgusted and concerned as everyone else" but believes her mom does not have any insight on the issue.
Meanwhile, another actress who played as Cosby's daughter in the show, Keshia Knight Pulliam, recounted the many good things that the actor has done in the past like the millions he has donated to colleges as well as the kindness he has shown during the set of the show. She enunciated that Cosby is innocent until proven guilty, Entertainment Weekly reported.
Bill Cosby has been one of the most recent victims of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's hasty comments who said that the actor was weird and had "slow and stupid" humor as per Daily Mail.
