“Bill Cosby became the first black man to star in a US TV drama. According to Bill Adler’s The Cosby Wit, (Robert) Culp described Cosby at their first meeting as ‘the angriest man I ever met ... Bill Cosby, without a question, agonized over what kind of a black man, what kind of a black American, he ought to be’. “
http://www.popmatters.com/column/123855-robert-culp-from-i-spy-to-hickey-boggs/
Obviously wasn’t too happy with women to treat them as he did, if the accusations are true.
That’s what bothers me about high profile Blacks. Of course they shouldn’t be seen as any different than Whites when it comes to issues of wrong-doing, but I want high profile Blacks kids can look up to, emulate.
When a Barack Obama, or a Bill Cosby, or a Charles Barkley, or any other high profile Black acts anti-socially, it gives kids the idea it’s okay unless you get caught.
I can’t help but wonder if a young Bill Clinton visiting JFK’s White House, found that it wasn’t so bad to treat women like sex objects to be used and discarded.
Role models are important.
Obama and Cosby should hang their heads in shame, and as you state, Cosby only if the charges are true. And at this point, it’s looking pretty bad for Cosby.