Bill Cosby's Wife Claims #MeToo Is Racist: Movement Has 'Intentional Ignorance'

Bill Cosby’s wife, Camille Cosby, has suggested that the #MeToo movement is racist.

Six years since her last major interview, Cosby, 76, finally broke her silence and said that she is “very, very pleased” that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court agreed to review her husband’s appeal regarding his sexual assault conviction in 2018.

Camille also called out the #MeToo movement, claiming that it is rooted in racism and that her husband’s accusers need to “clean up their acts.”

“First of all, I don’t care what they feel,” the 76-year-old philanthropist told ABC News a day after the court agreed to review two aspects of her husband’s case.

“The #MeToo movement and movements like them have intentional ignorance pertaining to the history of particular white women – not all white women – but particular white women, who have from the very beginning, pertaining to the enslavement of African people, accused black males of sexual assault without any proof whatsoever, no proof, anywhere on the face of the Earth,” she continued.

Bill Cosby, 82, is currently serving a three- to 10-year sentence in state prison after he was found guilty of sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in 2004. The comedian was also charged with a $25,000 fine as well as a prosecution fee of $43,611.

Meanwhile, Camille compared the accusations against her husband Bill to the case of 14-year-old African American Emmett Till. The boy was reportedly lynched in Mississippi in 1955, days after he was accused by a white woman of flirting with her. Till’s apparent murder eventually sparked the awakening of the civil rights movement.

“The parallel is that the same age-old thing about particular white women making accusations against black men that are unproven — Emmett Till’s outcome, to mutilate his body in the way that it was, was just really so deeply horrendous,” Camille said in a statement.

Labeling the case as a “kind of hatefulness,” she also recalled interviewing survivors from the Tulsa, Oklahoma riots in 1921, which was also sparked by a white female claiming to be sexually assaulted by a Black male.

Camille has, over the years, combined her scholarly work and passion for African American issues to produce entertainment platforms that promote racial awareness. These include a Broadway play and an extensive African American oral history project, as per ABC News.

Family-friendly sitcom “The Cosby Show,” which was co-created by and starring Bill, was a groundbreaking series and debuted in NBC in 1984. The five-year running show was lauded as the most popular series on U.S. television, featuring a stable, well-educated, two-parent African American family.

Camille also aims to relaunch the 1972 animated cartoon “Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids” that will help break ground in children’s television programming by featuring positive images of an overweight teenager named Albert and a boy with a speech impediment called Mushmouth.