Maybe my thinking is fucked up on this, but to me this is a "where there's smoke, there's fire" situation and I'm way more likely to bet on the odds of this being valid off of shear strength in numbers. I've had a friend who was lied on by some vindictive woman in the past (which I know she was lying bc my man never left my sight that evening and she was too wasted on Xanax to know so), but this whole Al Davis thing is not some isolated incident born out of spite. We have what, double digit amounts of women coming out of the wood work to bravely exclaim to the world that they were victimized by him? I've heard people in the industry mention shit like this about Al in the past over time as just chatty patty type shit, but never has there been such a forceful & outspoken cooperative movement to address his behavior head on.
What kills me is that Converse is doubling down by making a post quoting him saying “Black Joy makes me think of all the Black Women in my family. We wouldn’t be anywhere without women in this world. Respect and protect them at all costs.” - Al Davis. Idk, maybe this shit fucks me up bc it's another black man who has taken up a voice for us and has subsequently represented us wrong in a public light during such a tumultuous time. Like this dude is really talking about black joy and respecting/ protecting women with all this shit coming out now, all while he ignores the voices of the people he hurt? He's making us look bad, and now you have kids saying "communitychange___HE IS A NIGGER" sparking up that hatred towards us again as a whole. Not only do I want his sponsors to drop him, but I wanna see some real established representatives of black skateboarding come out and take their cosign from this dude. That's the only way I can see it quelling the deep seeded racist tendencies of people against us, we need to come together and show that we don't carry this man as one of us anymore.