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Damn, Bill, really?
Comedian, Philanthropist, Awardee of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, multiple education awards and honorable degrees. Add to those credits, as of this date, you are now officially a convicted sexual predator spanning decades.
You are now the poster-child for the wealthy misogynist serial sexual predator. After being the first black male star of a major television series (before him, there was none), after years of being America’s Dad and selling millions of books and sold out comedy shows, your Mr. Hyde has emerged under the exterior of the elite and privileged African-American do-gooder. Evil was hidden in plain sight.
You single-handedly killed the characters who young black men like me sought to emulate. You’re like the father we found out had a secret life, except you perpetuated that upon the black men who emulated the persona’s you created that gave us hope. You dashed that legacy against the wall of our souls because you decided that privately you would be an animal. Using your fame to trap the starry-eyed and the hopeful and then drugging them into your vile and nasty submission.
I am furious with the fakery that you perpetrated upon those in our community, the less fortunate who you chastised because “some poor black folks lacked grammar and accused them of squandering opportunities the civil rights movement gave them.” And when our community complained about your self-righteousness you shot back, saying “your detractors were trying in vain to hide the black community’s “dirty laundry.”
During a 2004 appearance at the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition & Citizenship Education Fund’s annual conference, you said “Let me tell you something, your dirty laundry gets out of school at 2:30 every day, it’s cursing and calling each other n—— as they’re walking up and down the street.” You said, “You’ve got to stop beating up your women because you can’t find a job because you didn’t want to get an education and now you’re (earning) minimum wage.” “You should have thought more of yourself when you were in high school when you had an opportunity.” I guess the black community should have followed your lead and drugged all races of women to molest them. So, so vile.
You single-handedly murdered characters that were indelible to the men that so many of us became or wanted to be. Mr. Alexander Scott & Dr. Cliff Huxtable double murder 4-26-2018.
In “I Spy,” you portrayed US intelligence agent Alexander “Scotty” Scott, who traveled undercover as an international “tennis bum”. Scott was a trainer, playing against wealthy opponents in return for food and lodging. Their work involved chasing villains, spies, and beautiful women.
On The Cosby Show, you portrayed Dr. Heathcliff “Cliff” Huxtable, a prominent doctor in Brooklyn Heights, New York. Born in October 1937 in Philadelphia, he became an OB/GYN who ran a practice from the office annexed to his home. Most people outside of his family and friends refer to him as “Dr. Huxtable” and he was a well-respected member of the community. Cliff had a brother, James Theodore Huxtable, who died of rheumatic fever at the age of 7. In his high school and college years, he was an athlete who wrestled, played football, and ran track. He later served in the Navy before going to medical school.
Bill, I planned my life, my demeanor, my grace and humor to provide for my family and be the friend that Dr. Huxtable was.
The nation, the world mourned with you when your son Ennis was killed. We cried with you, you owe us that you son-of-a-bitch. For almost 40 years, you molested and raped countless women, many of whom have lived silently in their pain. Their chosen mates being unable to touch them or get close to them because the stench of your cigars and behavior reminded them of a time when they were drugged and abused by you. You have destroyed the lives of each of these women in unimaginable ways and fortunately for many of them your personal devil wears red and has a name: Gloria Allred. She is coming for you, I for one am grateful that retribution wears a dress.
Your sentence isn’t enough. Your embarrassment isn’t enough. You can’t lose enough of your fortune from this moment forward. YOU tried to make this about race. This was not about race, it was about the sinister machinations of your actions. It was about power, control, domination and the hatred of women. You have women, beautiful, beautiful black women in your home, your daughters and your devoted wife….how did you do what you did and then look them in the eye? How did you drug and rape women and then be a “good father” a “good husband”?
You tried to co-op “white privilege” and blend it with wealth and power to assume that you could do anything you wanted. Like OJ Simpson, Barry Bonds, Ben Johnson, Wesley Snipes, and other black entertainers and sports figures, you assumed you could do anything you wanted to because of what money and power afforded you. You were the FIRST one convicted in an arena of white males who acted just as you did such as the poster child of the “Me too” movement, Harvey Weinstein. You got caught first and worse but none of the white boys got caught out there worse than you did. You probably surpassed all of their deeds based on your length of time and the dastardly way you hid behind your well-honed hypocrisy. That’s what you deserve in emulating the worse of human behavior in stalking, drugging, and molesting women.
You were once the most beloved star in the world. A finely crafted image of success and excess that even Oprah admired. You almost took this to your grave…but dirty little secrets like this? They come out at some point and your power, wealth and privilege that silenced so many women over the years no longer protect you. In fact, it amplifies your crimes, it shows us all who you have really been all of these years. You defiled women, you defiled your race. (Yes, I said that.)
You hurt the cast of kids and young adults whose careers grew in your shadow. You hurt the people who believed in you and held you up as a standard bearer for where a good education, sound financial planning, and proper decorum could take you. You were the self-designated pride of black folk.
You are no better than the Golden State Killer who was recently found out to be a police officer and who is thought to have killed 12 people, raped at least 45 people and burglarized more than 120 homes in the 1970s and ’80s (You’re both close in number in the same “rape” class, however, you have been out there longer than this guy so who knows what your real numbers are) and each woman you touched without their permission and consent, you did as much in killing their spirit, their souls, and their hopes. You are no better than a serial killer, you are the same serial predator.
Martin Luther King is turning over in his crypt. Malcolm X is laughing and calling you “Negro” from Mecca. The great Harry Belafonte has to be shaking his head in sadness. As for me, the Fatherless kid who grew up wanting to be Alexander Scott and a better family man like Dr. Huxtable? I learned this, for you? it was all an act. There is real life and in that is where you can be honest, truthful and do no harm to others. I remember this quote from you that is somehow very fitting at this time: “Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.” You certainly rewrote your own. Tell us more about it as you slowly decay and rightfully rot in your cell.
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I agree – I am also extremely disappointed in learning the truth about Mr. Cosby’s inexcusable and illegal sexual behavior. However, if Mr. Madison did, as he stated, “… planned my life, my demeanor, my grace and humor to provide for my family and be the friend that Dr. Huxtable was.” then I’d say he did just fine in following the example of Dr. Huxtable, and I don’t quite understand why he keeps harping on that point. I realize Mr. Madison probably feels somewhat ‘betrayed’ in finding out Mr. Cosby wasn’t really ‘a Dr. Huxtable,’ but he didn’t choose Mr.… Read more »