Bill Cosby and his handlers are planning on launching an aggressive PR campaign that paints the legendary comedian as a victim of racism in response to the growing number of sexual assault allegations now being levied against him.

Radar Online reports Cosby and his supporters recently mapped out the plan during an "intense strategy session" attended by his D.C.-based attorney Monique Pressley. Representatives of "The Cosby Show" star are committed to advancing the theory he has been targeted "because he's black and famous" and plan to use such incendiary terms as "lynching," "witch hunt" and "persecution" as part of their campaign to salvage what's left of the 78-year-old star's image.

The hope appears to be that the new strategy will help Cosby gain the support of African-Americans, including black journalists, who Cosby previously argued should be "neutral" in their coverage of the yet unfolding scandal.

"Look, it's not rocket science and it's not hard to understand, particularly if you're African-American, that no matter if an individual has fame and fortune, if he supposedly drugged and raped a white woman, he's very much susceptible to swift and harsh punishment," said a source.

The source added nearly all Cosby's alleged sex assault victims are white, and most of them alleged they were abused during the 1960s and 1970s, an era when white women's abuse claims at the hands of a black man would have been easily and aggressively pursued.

"What cannot happen in the United States is that 40 years later there is a persecution tantamount to a witch hunt," Pressley sid. "Bill Cosby was a black man in America. If we look back on our own history and see what was happening during those times, he would have been target No. 1 in those days. "

Reportedly, Cosby's wife, Camille, is aware of the plan and has agreed to go with it.