You made a good point about black role models. It’s sad to see THE DAD of America in this mess. I would not have dreamed of him in this light. : (
His personal history is very sordid, even from the early days of his marriage he was such a regular at the Playboy mansion that he became Hef’s best friend.
He also had a quietly bad reputation in the industry, and a team of lawyers he kept, and even a bag man from NBC to pay his way out of sex problems with cash.
He loved to control and dominate women, and the female staff at the Letterman show, despised him.