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46. Yes, We Still Need To Talk About Cosby

Intersectionality Matters!

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The Roll of Ebony Magazine With the Broken Image of the Huxtables

I really liked your interviews with carnan in clar i wanted to come back to you as a person in the media. When a genameo published the ebony cover with the broken image of the huxtables, all hell broke loose. And it's important to be able to say, the story that we're telling about cosbie and his release is not a story that the average black person can ever tell. But at the same time, it's a story that black women know too well.

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Speaker 2
And it's important to be able to say, the story that we're telling about cosbie and his release is not a story that the average black person can ever tell. That's not what this is about. And at the same time, it's a story that black women, you know, know too well. I really liked your interviews with carnan in clar i wanted to come back to you as a person in the media. When a genameo published the ebony cover with the broken image of the huxtables, all hell broke loose. I mean, i remember that like it was yesterday. First i d that is amazing. And is li they gon't get in trouble. So, you know, one of the things that i was wondering, cause i'm sure you probably can amplify how she felt, i she talked about how so many of the readership that said, look, the roll of ebony magazine is to uplift. It is to put black excellence on display. It is not to engage in critique. It's not to raise the hard and difficult questions, right? And she and you are operating under a sort of different sense of wat black representation in tails. How did you resonate with her story, and how does it shape how you think about what you're doing in united stades, which we're going to talk about
Speaker 1
well. So i think, like i we actually intere ath ged. The key thing about her is that we axy interviewed her, her interview happened after cas got out of prison. So she had a very different calculus than the people who had agreed to do it when cosbie was still in prison. Because there was a sense that he's in prison, he's going to be in there forever. He might die in there. We can all talk about this freely. But she had to decide, now that he's out, do i want to enter into this discussion? And she'd also gone through, ah, the russell simmons dock and annow, that's it all like, you know. And
Speaker 2
that was the controversy, yes.
Speaker 1
And so, but i think, i, i give her so much credit for showing up, because she knew what she was getting into. And it really felt like, you know, we were just everything we did, she was like, she mike drop, mike drop. Mike drop, mike drop. Kerna made a choice of like, we can't act like this isn't happening, cause that benefit any of us. And especially with sexual salt in this country, as you know, we have always done a bad job of dealing with sexual salt and rape, no matter who. And if you talk about then you go to black women, it's a jot, we do a worse job of it.
Speaker 2
Exactly.

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