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While Bill Cosby is quick to criticize black people at any given opportunity, without the slightest bit of provocation, he refused to call killer George Zimmerman racist in an interview on DomNnate Radio Show, reports the Orlando Sentinel. “This racial stuff goes into a whole bunch of discussion which has stuff that you can’t prove,” Cosby said in an interview Tuesday. “You can’t prove somebody is a racist unless they really come out and do the act and is found to be that.” Apparently, in Cosby Land, profiling, stalking, menacing, attacking and ultimately fatally shooting a black child in the heart because he’s black and wearing a hoodie — so he must be a criminal — doesn’t qualify as being racist. Cosby said that the issue was simple: “the prosecution didn’t tell their story well, and they lost.” In a weird twist, Cosby claimed that he didn’t pay much attention to the trial because Casey Anthony was found guilty in the court of public opinion, but turned out to be “not guilty” in the e ...
