Bill Cosby’s fall from grace over the numerous rape allegations against him has been on the minds of Americans this year and the controversy surrounding the legal drama was heightened this past week when Ebony magazine revealed the cover to their latest issue, which features a photo of the famous “Cosby Show” family cast inside a broken glass picture frame. Since then, readers have weighed in heavily on the cover but now former “Cosby Show” star Malcolm-Jamal Warner has weighed in on the controversy.
In a recent interview with “HuffPost Live,” Warner spoke about the issue and explained that he’s disappointed in Ebony because of the cover.
“Actually, I [still] need to read the article. I have not read the article because just the cover, I didn’t really feel like dealing with it yet. But… I had so many social media comments from the Black audience, from Ebony’s target audience, who are very disappointed with that cover, and very disappointed in Ebony as one of the voices of the Black community to put that cover out there,” Warner said.
Warner elaborated on his disappointment with the magazine and explained that the cover is detrimental to its readers because it just perpetuates the common misrepresentation of the “broken black family.”
“Yes, I am [disappointed] … It’s contributing to the stereotypical image that society has of the broken Black family, the shattered Black family. And to take something that for 20, 30 years has been what we have held up as the Black family that we all want to aspire to, in terms of the love that we don’t see when we see Black families in the media, to take that image and to shatter it, it’s disappointing to a lot of us,” Warner explained.
But that’s not all he had to say about the magazine and the controversy surrounding Cosby. Read the rest of his comments, after the cut.
