“Will somebody please hospitalize Bill Cosby?”
“Will somebody please hospitalize Bill Cosby?”
This was a question asked not in response to the 15 women accusing Cosby of sexual assault, but rather in an otherwise unrelated speech by award-winning poet Nikki Giovanni at the Miami Book Fair International in 2007.
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She made her thoughts on Cosby abundantly clear, questioning his character at a time when he was questioning everyone else’s. Giovanni accused the legendary comedian of womanizing and fathering illegitimate children all while he was lecturing the black community about the need for better morality.
Here’s Giovanni’s four-minute rant:
“It just makes me so mad,” Giovanni said.
