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Bill Cosby: “Lude Man”  Date Raped Women!
Treatment: His entire wealth should be distributed to organizations that help women, rape victims; and kids in education and health care.

He can afford all of the above…. or go to jail!

By now most of you know about the heinous behavior of the once highly lauded and extravagantly paid actor/comedian –Bill Cosby. Does it matter that he was a prominent African-American?  What would be different if he were white?  Nothing?? He is still a creep and a dangerous poseur.

I don’t know him. Nor would I like to know him. I do understand his psychopathology. It is too late to do anything about it. Although, I suspect that members of his family; as well as close friends, and financial cohorts had a very clear sense of what he had been doing over decades. 

Cosby was not a modest man. He was for the most part a braggadocio whom I suspect bragged about his ersatz ‘conquests’ –such as they were/are—with an assortment of women. Whoever prescribed the Quaaludes—i.e. a physicians of sorts should be investigated for the endless prescriptions he/she wrote on behalf of Cosby.

I am not here to praise nor condemn the man. That is for society to judge. Although, I do congratulate all the women who came forward and tried to press their respective cases against him –against all odds.

What Cosby has done to all the women and to African-American society is beyond reproach. I do know quite well, for reasons that I cannot disclose here, that Cosby had made literally millions, if not billions of dollars from his TV shows. I never watched them. My time in Hollywood afforded me the opportunity to assess his wealth without even soliciting anyone in particular.

Having said that, I do strongly recommend that most of his earnings be distributed to organizations that afford help to all kinds of women, men, children to protect them against rape. Also I would use his money, in the name of the victims whom he had molested,  for courses all over the country on bullying; women studies; and last but not least, African American women and their relationship to men.

Cosby is finished as an entertainer. He is denigrated as a man and has left a bitter legacy as a human being. The only redeeming factor in this whole conundrum of his guilt is the fact that he is very wealthy and should be stripped of that wealth for the benefit of American women in our society.

Quaaludes has been used abusively as a soporific agent. But perhaps the maker of Quaaludes and Cosby himself might want to pay the necessary penitence to rectify in part the damage that both entities have caused in our society. Neither psychiatric help nor jail will do Cosby any good. Yet his wealth, if properly distributed by the courts, can rectify  many injustices.

Napoleon Bonaparte said the following apropos comment:

“All famous people lose dignity on a close view.”