I came across this article posted on facebook and thought it was pretty interesting given the current political climate. Imagine if this had happened today.
>His mother, Camille, poignantly wrote an op-ed in USA Today in July 1998 that lay the blame for Ennis’s death at the feet of American racism. “I believe America taught our son’s killer to hate African-Americans,” she wrote. “Presumably, Markhasev did not learn to hate black people in his native country, the Ukraine, where the black population was near zero.”
Does she not know why the black population in "the Ukraine" is near zero? It's because Ukrainians are almost unanimously racist towards blacks and xenophobic towards outsiders but she probably wouldn't have know that then or having never been there.
Bill Cosby's son Ennis was just 27 years old when he was shot and killed in a racially-motivated murder in Los Angeles on January 16, 1997. It then took nearly two months for his killer to be brought to justice. In fact, Mikhail Markhasev, an 18-year-old Ukrainian immigrant, was only caught after the National Enquirer offered a $100,000 reward, prompting one of Markhasev's friends to turn him over to the police and collect the money. Markhasev was convicted and sentenced to life in prison in part based on the testimony of that same friend, who said that shortly after the murder, Markhasev bragged, "I shot a n—. It's all over the news."
After Ennis Cosby's death, his mother wrote