Who Is Bill Cosby Innocent

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There was a video on Facebook titled When it’s valentines day and she not trynna let you hit in which a black male if featured with orange juice putting a pill of something into it while the Bill Cosby theme plays in the background. I looked at the comments and was absolutely disgusted! One brave teenager addressed that it was promoting rape and how that is not something that is appropriate to promote, many people jumped on her with comments like “It’s a joke, get over it” and using awful slurs against her. Many of the commentators were men and a few women, all of these comments were painful to read, they used no logic to back up their claims other than it was a joke, it then turned to how some people thought that Bill Cosby was innocent

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