Battle lines were drawn when a Twitter user trashed Phylicia Rashad for being honored on Mother’s Day.
Rashad trended early Sunday, May 9, 2021, as a multitude of fans continues to exalt her as arguably the greatest TV mom of all time. The regal Rashad played the elegant wife Clair Huxtable on “The Cosby Show” from 1984 to 1992 and then on “Cosby” from 1996 to 2000.
Claire Huxtable.
(Full disclosure my late dad was one of the writers of her show🙏🏾 📺 ) buuuut Yeah it’s Claire hands-down.
Un-cancelable goat 🐐 TV Mom @PhyliciaRashad https://t.co/SSAA9PwqGY pic.twitter.com/svQjv4QrUS— Holly Robinson Peete 💃🏾♍️ (@hollyrpeete) May 9, 2021
One Twitter user, however, was repulsed by the throngs fawning over Rashad and ripped into the esteemed actress, albeit by curiously using her TV name to make her point, TMZ reports.
This was all the prodding the Black Twitter battalion needed to quickly get into war formation against tweeter Lisa Talmadge.
Neither Claire Huxtable or Phylicia Rashad are responsible for Bill Cosby's actions. She was his co worker and employee not his supervisor or co conspirator in his crimes. pic.twitter.com/e7jL2XbiAg
— BLAQ MARQUEE (@BlaqMarquee) May 9, 2021
Don't you EVER come for our Aunties… We will bury you. #phyliciarashad
~Us pic.twitter.com/kLadDNoCTx
— 💙🦋 Lovey Blue, Call me Kellz💙 🦋 (@LoveyBlue727) May 9, 2021
“I’ll flip this whole table over bout Mrs. Phylicia Rashad, go play with somebody else,” another Twitter user wrote.
Even a survivor of sexual assault jumped on Talmadge for the reckless tweet.
“This is dismissive and unacceptable,” the person penned on Twitter, according to the New York Post‘s “Page Six” column. “As someone who has liked and admired your work and passion, and as a survivor myself, this doesn’t help anyone. You deliberately dehumanized a woman by referring to her as a fictional character. You accused her of specific actions.”
The blowback was so fierce that Talmadge deleted the tweet. She remains undeterred in her stance, however, and returned later on Sunday to defend herself, “Page Six” states.
“I’m sorry people don’t like me today but my allegiance will always be with the survivors and I will always side-eye all the enablers,” Talmadge said before also deleting the post after she incurred Twitter’s wrath once again.
