Chuck D Goes Off on Cosby ‘Character Assassination’: ‘Akin to Nazi Book Burning’

Public Enemy’s Chuck D had a lot to say yesterday about Bill Cosby and how what’s happening to him and his legacy is “akin to Nazi book burning.”

On Twitter yesterday, he expressed his discomfort at the “character assassination” surrounding Cosby and how everything remotely related to him is being thrown by the wayside by people who still enjoy works from other artists with less-than-perfect pasts.

Here’s a lot of what he had to say:

We are living in a wild bizarre time. Character assassination very real DrCosby & ConFed flag down in same week.Status is currency to masses

— Chuck D (@MrChuckD) July 12, 2015

They're taking his name & statues down but is every situation giving his money back to him since its dirty money? #BillCosby

— Chuck D (@MrChuckD) July 12, 2015

I'm saying ppl don't even recall Cosby in pajamas Cigar w Hef at Playboy Mansion 70s parties. Wtf ? Usa folk believed in Huxtable character.

— Chuck D (@MrChuckD) July 12, 2015

I wasn't defending anything but I ain't naive either nor was I a kid in the 80s swept totally by a TV show. I'd already watched Cosby in 60s

— Chuck D (@MrChuckD) July 12, 2015

@stabitha so you will separate the good that he done from his character or closely associate the 2? How will you judge his work?

— Chuck D (@MrChuckD) July 12, 2015

Question do some of yall start stop listening to Marvin Gaye records because of drug addiction? Attempted murder? Wife Abuse? Pedophilia?

— Chuck D (@MrChuckD) July 12, 2015

A lotta your favorites did some wild Sht in the 80s & 90s you followed. Start turning in your headphones & keep walking by Vitamin Water ?

— Chuck D (@MrChuckD) July 12, 2015

.@I_Am_Durty I was making a point that connecting the human faults to their works is not a cut dry thing.

— Chuck D (@MrChuckD) July 12, 2015

Black women been reporting abuse for 100 years.Now it's woven in the cultural everyday talk.I think black women's total voices are obscured

— Chuck D (@MrChuckD) July 12, 2015

Fkn stupid USA. My own father is 77 why would I listen watch a TV actor as a father figure?We have to look real people in eyes & not images

— Chuck D (@MrChuckD) July 12, 2015

A public figure can only be someone you pick qualities from and add to you, if chosen. Eat what's edible leave the bones where they may..

— Chuck D (@MrChuckD) July 12, 2015

No way Im defending Cosby.But this wiping history out wit a swoop is akin to Nazi book burning.Context is everything.PhilSpector still plays

— Chuck D (@MrChuckD) July 12, 2015

.@ghensel don't be dumb. I said the erasing of history.

— Chuck D (@MrChuckD) July 12, 2015

Oh they say Im trending.Fk I care whether Im trending or trendy?Or maybe I hate the USAmedia so much & the Pavlovic TRENDencies that follow

— Chuck D (@MrChuckD) July 12, 2015

You want a fair Earth. The fact that corps pimp ppl thru Govts make us spend too much time on Cosby & whether the woman was black in NAACP

— Chuck D (@MrChuckD) July 12, 2015

[h/t TheWrap]
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