The Downfall of Bill Cosby

Erik Cork | 9/28/2018, 4:36 a.m.
The once powerful & prestigious name of Bill Cosby is now dead and buried. In the minds of millions, his …
Bill Cosby in handcuffs going to jail for sexual assault

The once powerful & prestigious name of Bill Cosby is now dead and buried. In the minds of millions, his eulogy should be delivered by the pathological president of the United States of America himself who some strongly suggest shares similar sexually deviant tendencies as the late "Bill Cosby."

Cosby proved to be a pitiful sight of a sunken man in a sunken place as he was led to prison in a "public perp walk" with his sleeves intentionally rolled up - so the entire world would witness an icon & a cultural hero in visible handcuffs. No suit coat to cover his astonishing collapse from fame, glory & grace! His withered body & nearly blind vision will both continue to deteriorate - along with his proud legacy & his positive contributions to underprivileged people.

Meanwhile, Cosby's president continues to escape & elude prosecution while he & we all see & witness the names of all those in his inner circle continue to circle the drain of the swamp he promised to drain. They are indicted & criminalized one-by-one each new day, but then agree to cooperate with the FBI to tell their sordid tales involving their loyalty & former allegiance to the only top elected official qualified & eligible to eulogize sexual predators everywhere based on a documented track record of racist behavior & callous exploitation of power & belittling history of disregard, disrespect & dehumanization of women.

All of the millions of dollars Cosby donated to HBCUs & the thousands of urban students he either PUT/PAID FOR through college or INSPIRED to attend college ("Different World" TV show) will be bittersweet memories that should keep Cosby company & warm at night as he sits alone in his lonely jail cell for the next few years. Whenever anyone listens to Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" speech, Cosby can comfort himself in knowing that HE paid for the microphone & entire sound system for the historic March on Washington where Rev. Dr. King was forever immortalized.

Bill Cosby did not teach me how to be a caring husband, loving father nor a successful entrepreneur with a private practice. Dr. Heathcliff Huxtable did all that. I am not confused nor conflicted between the two characters. The one "on camera" who starred in the greatest African American sitcom of all-time is an admired legend. Always!!! The one in secret hotel rooms allegedly assaulting sleeping women is another persona. Bill Cosby was convicted for drugging & sexually molesting women who received millions in hush money. Cosby himself willingly & arrogantly provided the smoking gun his own name was murdered by. When he expressed a serious interest in purchasing the entire NBC network, many believe his only son, Ennis, was immediately murdered to send Cosby a clear message about who is allowed to own & control the media. Rest in Peace to his son & to the once crowning legacy of Cosby's public leadership & devoted patronage to uplift the image of marginalized minorities & disenfranchised people of color.

Just as Denzel Washington's character (Attorney Nick Styles) in the classic movie "Richochet" was first smeared & ridiculed by a vengeful villain, so too was Cosby's name & his well-earned stellar reputation. Before his planned death, Nick Styles' name was totally vilified & ripped apart before the final noose was attached to his promising career. However, when Cosby's secret real-life sins finally caught up to him, he had no one to blame but himself. This is called killing a person completely when their name is buried alongside them. Their "good" is oft interred within their bones - as Shakespeare once wrote for Julius Caesar’s eulogy.

I have a delightful daughter I celebrated only yesterday. She was kidnapped at gunpoint from our home as a young girl as the family was put into a comatose sound sleep by a toxin poured into our air-conditioning unit. She was led out of the house barefooted & blindfolded, then driven away in the dilapidated family car & assaulted. When we woke up, she was gone!! We rushed to hospital emergency room to be reunited with her!! Therefore, I shed no tears for Bill Cosby. Neither do thousands of innocent girls, boys, adult women & grown men who share a sad sisterhood of shameful (family) secrets & a brutal brotherhood bond of vicious violation of their childhood, womanhood & manhood. The mental Trauma and sorrowful stigma of victimization is now forever etched in each mention of the disgraced & disgusting name of "Bill Cosby."

Forgiveness is an individual odyssey & an arduous journey for those who have personally suffered, especially when no one believed them nor adequately comforted them in their silent pain. Watching Bill Cosby in cuffs & visible captivity represents a small victory & personal vindication for those who still hope that justice can eventually prevail for them also.

Instead of a highly honored college president, a high powered Hollywood producer or a famous entertainment executive providing the final words to the memory of Bill Cosby - whose wife Camille also abandoned him during his darkest hour - Bill Cosby will be eulogized by the 45th president of the United States of America whose famous words will forever be associated with the abundantly generous & once great name & self-tarnished legacy of Bill Cosby.