The episode has been in the works for more than a year and was planned to air this weekend even before the Cosby meme debacle. “You are scaring white people!”
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Imagine a scenario in which Bill Cosby wants to rid the world of famous black people who he thinks are debits — and not credits — to the race.
The actor is fronting the Cosby Coon Removal Program, where he wants to transform actors — Pam Grier, Rudy Ray Moore, and Jim Kelly, for example — into dignified representations of the black race.
If they all could act like Huxtables, and not like ghettoized superheroes who sass the man with saucy jive vernacular, then the world would all be a better place, he surmises.
It's his hope that blaxploitation and the presumed embarrassment that comes from the language, storylines, and 'hood black subculture will be a thing of the past.
"You," Cosby tells his adversary, "are scaring white people!"
Carl Jones, executive producer of Adult Swim's Black Dynamite.
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This is all fiction, of course.
It's a situation that Carl Jones, the executive producer of Adult Swim's satirical Black Dynamite, has masterminded. In the Nov. 15 episode, entitled "Sweet Bill's Badass Song or Cos Ain't Himself," Cosby is now the purveyor of black people appropriateness and the enemy.
Earlier this week Cosby's social media team asked Twitter users to meme him in a poorly thought-out meme generator on his site. It backfired in grand fashion when people used it to create memes referencing his 2006 rape allegations, and was ultimately taken down.
This latest episode of Black Dynamite takes direct aim at Cosby, and had been in the works for more than a year. The fact that it's landing now, in the aftermath of such a colossal social media showdown, is purely coincidental.
But it'll sting all the same.
"To be honest, we weren't actually going after Cosby first," Jones told BuzzFeed News. "The original idea was, we wanted to do a story on blaxploitation and … we came up with the idea of who is somebody who doesn't agree with blaxploitation? Who would want to kidnap all the blaxploitation [actors] and try to convert them into upright-standing citizens? We had a list of villains. Cosby was at the top."
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