He didn't really go in. I was more wowing at what he said Cosby said to Katrina victims right after the storm.
Mid-1990s: Cosby
visits the Philadelphia projects he lived in as a kid and confronts an apparent drug addict living there about why he doesn't have a job. When the 21-year-old doesn't have answers, Cosby tells him that there is no excuse for his situation.
January 2004: Andrea Constand, director of operations for Temple University's women's basketball team, visits Cosby, whom she had met in 2002, at his Pennsylvania home to discuss career advice. After allegedly giving her herbal pills to help her with her anxiety, Constand says Cosby "touched her breasts and vagina area, rubbed his penis against her hand, and digitally penetrated" her.
March 2004: Cosby
gives a speech at the Year of Child production at a Philadelphia church, during which he attacks the modern parenting styles to an audience of young children and their parents. A
Philadelphia Inquirer columnist runs an article stating he chose the wrong place and time for such a lecture, and an angry Cosby calls the author a few days later demanding that she issue a retraction in print because she was wrong and the audience did need to hear his message. She refuses, and Cosby eventually writes a letter to the
Inquirer, which is printed, and has his lawyers threaten the paper with legal action.
May 2004: While receiving a philanthropy award in Washington, D.C., Cosby
says the poor are "not holding up their end of the deal" and that it is the parents' fault when their children end up in prison. He goes on to attack black youths for their style choices and parents for naming their children "Shaniqua, Taliqua and Muhammand and all that crap."
Jan. 13, 2005: Constand, now living near Toronto, accuses Cosby of "inappropriate touching" to Canadian authorities. Cosby's lawyer dismisses her claim as "utterly preposterous" and "plainly bizarre."
Feb. 10, 2005: After hearing Constand's claims, Lucier, now named Tamara Green, goes on the
Today show and becomes the second woman to publicly accuse Cosby of sexual abuse. After her interview with Matt Lauer, Cosby's lawyer calls Green's allegations "absolutely false. Mr. Cosby does not know the name Tamara Green or Tamara Lucier, and the incident she describes did not happen."
March 8, 2005: A month after the Montgomery County, Pa., district attorney announces he will not press charges against Cosby based on Constand's claims because of lack of evidence, she files a civil suit against Cosby, with charges of assault and battery. She asks for at least $150,000 in damages. Thirteen other women who claim they had similar experiences with Cosby, one being Green, are mentioned in the suit, but are kept anonymous.
April 1, 2006: Cosby
speaks at a march to rally support from New Orleans residents who have been disenfranchised and relocated after Hurricane Katrina. The comedian, however, focuses on the problems facing these citizens
before Katrina hit — issues with teenage pregnancy, high murder rates, etc., that, in Cosby's mind, aren't symptoms of institutionalized racism, but are caused by these Katrina victims.
That same month, Cosby tells Michael Eric Dyson that he won't appear on his radio show because Cosby is convinced Dyson was wasn't telling his own life story properly by focusing on institutional issues rather than personal responsibility and being self-made. "Until you gain clarity, I will not come on your show," Cosby
repeatedly says.