Phylicia Rashad issues new statement, but still said what she said

[thereinventions]

Following Phylicia Rashad's early message of support for Bill Cosby, Howard University - where Rashad is Dean of the Fine Arts College - said that "her initial tweet lacked sensitivity towards survivors of sexual assault." Read the full statement here: https://t.co/gy5n1biceM
- The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) July 1, 2021
After receiving backlash,

Comments

[numara]

janet hubert replied to her and said everyone knew WHILE IT WAS HAPPENING. bernie mac even alluded to it in 2004:

welp the bernie mac show had a bigger impact on ME than the cosby show did and bernie been knew cosby was full of it as seen here (2004) pic.twitter.com/frYJ0bcdgx
- BRI (@BriMalandro) April 26, 2018

like what is there to defend atp. he was a monster then and is still a monster now. like thank you for reminding all of the black girls who looked up to you why the reputations of demonstrably evil black men are always protected over our own

[hazypink]

Bernie ❤️

[crawdadddy]

i grew up watching the bernie mac show and i've never seen this interview with him. wow.

[iznanassi]

RIP

[lawofcosines]

Thanks for sharing this. I like Bernie Mac. I also didn't see that Bri Malandro tweet on my timeline even tho I follow her haha.

[mary_pickforded]

[autumnjane]

He was TERRIBLE. I helped run a parenting conference in Chicago in 2006 and he was the keynote speaker. It was mostly low income Black mothers in the audience and he was just such an asshole. I don't remember a lot of the exact content but I just kept thinking "was his objective to make them feel like shit parents?" Lots of "Black parents aren't doing it right" kind of rhetoric. It was really depressing.

[mary_pickforded]

[caitiecait]

Yeah. I knew someone who worked at a venue he performed at forever ago and he felt her up when she asked for a picture

[h_wyatt]

Go on stage and say one thing and do one another.

Oooh Bernie!!!

[blankstare]

He really called him straight out and we didn't even catch it.

[mary_pickforded]

[blankstare]

I'm sure there will be plenty for us to look back on and wonder "How tf did I miss that?"