I've probably said it before but I'll say it again. He made a career out of shitting on black people and advocating moralist views that made him very popular with certain white people. All these black people wringing their hands about a legend from "our community" being brought low by The White Man can suck my dick, consensually of course. Why would I defend someone who spent decades denigrating black women, hand waving the ill effects of poverty, and apparently raping a lot of women.
If you get accused of something once I can believe you might be innocent. But once we get to 30+ people accusing you of the same thing, you're toast. You'd have to believe in the most ridiculous grand conspiracy imaginable to buy his bullshit.
I am drinking btw.