Thursday, May 3, 2018

The Cosby Case: The other side of the story

It has been a few days since entertainer Bill Cosby was found guilty of sexually assaulting a Temple University employee, Andrea Constand, 13 years ago. Where was the statute of limitations on this case? Didn't it run out before this case first went to trial?

Consider, then, that Cosby's wife of 54 years, Camille, made her first public comments on Wednesday. The following is courtesy of Yahoo!:
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“We the people” are the first three words of our nation’s Constitution, but who were those people in 1787? Dr. Howard Zinn, the renowned, honest historian, states in his best selling book, A People’s History of the United States: “The majority of the 55 men who framed the Constitution were men of wealth in land, slaves, manufacturing or shipping.” Clearly, most people were not included in that original draft of the Constitution; no women, Native Americans, poor white men; and, absolutely, no enslaved Africans. What have the masses of people done who are treated as outcasts by “we the people”? They, through the purity of the unceasing human spirit, forced 27 amendments to the Constitution that have guaranteed fundamental rights to all people…finally doing what the framers should have done in 1787. Now enters an American citizen, Bill Cosby.

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