A Place With A Short History Don't Need Long Answers

I'm still thinking about Barbara Bowman's pleas for understanding - in the face of public opposition. 

I don't hear even a hint of appreciation (for a black man sticking up for her) here - only a charge of societal sexism - why?

Only after a man, Hannibal Buress, called Bill Cosby a rapist in a comedy act last month did the public outcry begin in earnest. The original video of Buress’s performance went viral,...

Because what Bowman's obviously left out is this place's racial politics (along with the sexism that was just-as-obviously used) in her This Is America mix: it was, specifically, a black man's criticism of respectability politics (which conservative whites endorsed, hiding behind Cosby, and Charles Barkley) that added weight to Bowman's rape allegations. 

Hannibal Buress put Bill Cosby in the rogues gallery to defend blacks who get beat up for living the country's truths. 

It was comedy, yes, but Bowman got lucky Buress cared - about justice - to stay-on-point and combat real ills for everyone. Even she doesn't care:

...While I am grateful for the new attention to Cosby’s crimes,...

First, no - it's not you, but America, who should be "grateful" - because the media will gladly swap a sex-charged Bill Cosby feeding frenzy over Buress' larger discussion of white supremacy, any day. 

Hannibal Buress' real point (which wasn't Cosby’s sex crimes but the hollowness of his, and white's, political arguments in regards to blacks) is already forgotten, and the real powers that be are more-than-happy to keep it that way.

"Please," they say, "talk about Mr. Cosby as long as you like,..."

I must ask my own questions: Why wasn’t I believed? Why didn’t I get the same reaction of shock and revulsion when I originally reported it? Why was I, a victim of sexual assault, further wronged by victim blaming when I came forward? The women victimized by Bill Cosby have been talking about his crimes for more than a decade. Why didn’t our stories go viral?

Yawn, been there-done that. If murder don't move 'em, mere rape ain't. Think O.J.. Ann Althouse posted this Bob Dylan line today, thinking she's being a Nazi-cute law professor here, maybe:

"In these times of compassion when conformity’s in fashion...."

Welcome to a land whose values are based on slavery, Ms. Bowman. Where assholes are mostly trying to make money. There was no money in "you" - until now - that's your short answer. Don't dare conform to actually giving a shit about people. Standing against giving a shit - that's the ticket. Tre cool. Some Americans practically consider it their natural cultural evolution.

...He can no longer be charged for his crimes against me because the statute of limitations is long past. That is also wrong. There should be no time limits on reporting these crimes, and one of my goals is to call for legislation to that end. Famous and wealthy perpetrators use their power to shame and silence their victims. It often takes years for young women to overcome those feeling and gain the confidence to come forward (by which point physical evidence is long gone). Our legal system shouldn’t silence them a second time.

You nailed it: looked behind the curtain - nothing's there.

Discovered "America" in all it's glory,...

Bill Cosby's Helping To Destroy Respectability Politics

“Bill Cosby raped me. Why did it take 30 years for people to believe my story?”

Screw facts - you've got to fit everyone's believability profile: smile and be positive

Barbara Bowman's question moved me, not least because no one's fully believed my story (of my wife killing three people) for almost a decade, either - and even after it was discovered to be true.

Waiting for anyone to call us,...sane

It's a funny ha-ha question, too, since it originated in (what the rest of the planet calls) "The New World," a culture - started in The Enlightenment - where the most educated people would rather believe psychics on The Montel Williams Show, and the quackery of Dr. Oz, than approach anything close to actual research.

What you may look like after being raped a second time in the public eye

What Ms. Bowman's really asking is why society willingly chose her to be part of it's wreckage?

These three are as "happy" as the rapist, Thomas Jefferson, said they should strive for

I've railed about that here, for quite a while, as well. Mrs. Bowman's story gained credibility only because Hannibal Burris was complaining about Cosby's campaign of respectability politics - a campaign that whites have repeatedly endorsed, and tried to force on blacks, despite all the evidence proving it's a harmful lie. Whites haven't cared about that. They've liked the way the lie sounds too much to care about the truth or who gets hurt by it. That's also how they feel about The Cos, too.

These two aren't protecting or serving but no matter

Wisconsin's repeated support for Scott Walker's campaign is as fine an example of how this mentality "works" as I can find:

Whites stay happy? No problem

As long as someone's smiling, or trying to protect someone smiling, they can do no wrong - even as they're doing wrong.

Few are allowed to speak up - or taken seriously - when they want to talk about what's wrong

Almost the entire history of the west, and it's ideals, has worked this way - and some Americans will still kill you for not going along with it. Honesty is a huge problem in America: we build giant cathedrals to a crock and let the innocent starve because they didn't contribute to it.

There are few "good options" left beyond the truth

That, Ms. Bowman, is simply how Americans are,....