OPINION:
Recently the daughter of Broadway legend Frank Loesser, who wrote the Christmas favorite “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” blamed actor Bill Cosby for the controversy involving the song’s lyrics. Susan Loesser said that it reminded people of date rape because of Cosby’s assault of all those women over the years. It is a shame that is a fact of life now. How times have changed.
I am still saddened to know and can’t get over the fact that Cosby was sentenced to prison for sexual assault. He was a great, notable figure in black America and he did a lot for the cause of civil rights, just like men such as former Secretary of State Colin Powell, former Virginia Gov. Douglas Wilder, former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and former President Barack Obama. Cosby fought for the rights of African-Americans and his fall from grace is inexcusable. Hollywood loved him from head to toe during his years as a comedian on NBC in the 1980s. No more. Cosby of all people should have known better.
STEVEN HAWKINS
Greenville, S.C.
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