Floyd Mayweather hints race plays role in Bill Cosby coverage

The amount of sexual assault allegations that have been hurled at once-beloved comedian Bill Cosby over the past two years is incredibly disturbing, but Floyd Mayweather Jr. thinks the media is devoting too much time to covering the scandal.

In a chat with TMZ Sports this week, Mayweather said he believes we should be concerning ourselves more with race issues than what Cosby has been accused of.

“Racism still exists. That’s no different from the Bill Cosby situation,” Floyd said. “What he did is not right, but there’s so much police brutality out there and things we don’t talk about. There’s a lot of young black males and females being killed by police, being beat up by police. Those are the things we don’t talk about. We’d rather talk about stuff with Bill Cosby that happened 30 or 40 years ago.”

Mayweather was then asked directly if he thinks race plays a role in the way the Cosby scandal has been covered, and he brought up Jared Fogle’s child porn charges and Hollywood director Woody Allen’s sexual abuse allegations. Both Fogle and Allen are white.

“Those things are going on, but we seem to turn our heads the other way and don’t look at things like that,” Mayweather said.

While the issues Mayweather spoke of are real and deserve attention, it’s hard to downplay a global icon being accused by more than 50 women if heinous acts that involve rape, drugging and child sexual abuse.

As many of you know, Floyd has been accused of some disturbing crimes himself. He’s not exactly the best spokesman for what the media should and should not be covering.