Hannibal Burress & The Cos

Hannibal Burress. I heard a podcast with him. Seems like a guy who really went with the flow of things. I actually like his work ethic, if what he says is true. Traveling on train to do comic sets in New York City. He’s not really known, until he blasted Bill Cosby for being an alleged rapist.

Here’s my gripe with Burress.

The angle he took on it, was the final message. It was that Cos was a hypocrite. Wrong.  What Cos is accused of doing has ZERO to do with what he said about the black community. In fact, if you wanna’ really be honest, Hannibal probably went into comedy the same reason Cos did. To get babes.

Now it was a different time in which Cos did what he did. A TON of guys would love the leverage to be where he was. What Cos said, was that he wants young black men to pull up their pants, speak better and get an education. What Burress countered was, why should be listen to a rapist. When it’s boiled down to those basics, are we really talking about the same thing?

Cos gained a lot of power through close to four decades. And when guys of his caliber get to that height of success and fame, there are rules we’re unaware of. The type of rules that get OJ acquitted. The type of rules that acquitted Robert Blake. The type of rules that Axl Rose rolls over and we don’t understand. The things I could tell you about celebrities that have done terrible things. A lot of them are shitty human beings. Why should they be like us? They think they’re better than us. And we want to destroy a man’s legacy because of something the industry understands to be true? Let’s get something straight, when you get to a level, you get away with idiosyncratic behavior. Is it fair? Fuck no. And it’s not right. But there are TWO sides to the situation. Most of which we will never hear. So I find it ridiculous that we wag our fingers now at Cosby. Maybe because he’s perceived as a father figure. I’m not sure. But, Hannibal didn’t stop to think how it effects him. There’s a HUGE target on his back now. His behavior is under the microscope. If you think he can get away with bad-mouthing the Cos and not have the Scarlett “A” on his chest, he’s mistaken. If he’s not on his best behavior, he’s going to be shredded by the press for every move he makes. Then he’ll realize what the Cos goes through. Because it’s never fair. For people who put themselves out there.