Bill Cosby is not your father and never was
OPINION: Once we accept the fact that Cosby is not Black America s father, much of the discussion around his history of abuse and sexual assault will be rendered pointless.
I was not surprised when
Bill Cosby was released from jail this week after having only served two years for three counts of sexual assault. The fact that he was released due to prosecutorial misconduct is quite honestly secondary to the fact that he has enough wealth, power and influence to exploit the incompetence of state prosecutors.
Rich people, even rich Black people, can always find a way to game a legal system that was never intended to work in favor of the poor or dispossessed anyway. What’s more important about Bill Cosby’s release, however, is the conversation it reignites in the Black community as we try to reconcile our notions of sexuality, gender, power and, most importantly, fatherhood.
Gian returns to Sea-john from the Kingdom s wars certain that he has skills beyond killing, death and destruction. He needs to prove to himself that love is just as strong, if not stronger, than his hate. The Summer King gives him this opportunity.
This short story was acquired for Tor.com by consulting editor Ann VanderMeer.
We have been down together in my sleep, unbuckling helms, fisting each other’s throat, and waked half half-dead with nothing
Gian stole into the house. From the back garden, a work-song: soprano led two deeper voices, who called the responses. There was the big wooden box, under the worktable. Gian went to it, pulled the box out, and rummaged its contents. He plucked gold from his ears and put in disks of mother-of-pearl. He lifted off his military beads, all the commendations he’d won in the Kingdom’s wars as
dedicated his life by working with social justice by working to stay fabulous, my fellow msnpbc host and friend of the show, the reverend al sharpton. my guests are still here. i wanted to add one last great hair moment, and it s one that is much more personal. the images we re coming across, talking about racial divide, how difficult it can be to walk with white friends, family, colleagues and we found these terrific photos of professor greene of emory university, an adopted daughter from africa and taken the responsibility of being her main hair care person and all these gorgeous pictures of him braiding her hair. and she s sitting between his legs in exact that will moment that so many of us had with our mothers over the years, we were doing a cheer that went something like go, white daddy, go. a beautiful job of doing this young girl s hair. amazing. and the picture calls to mind