My youngest child is 26 today. A good age to be having a first child, not too young and not too old.
I am a clueless white liberal, so I am about to rant on something, and it’s my blog, so I’m not polluting anybody else’s airspace if they don’t want to be looking this way.
Has it occurred to no-one else that Bill Cosby has arc’d out of the Republicanesque Favorable Narrative of Blackness, with his education and charm and commitment to excellence and family values, into the Vile Caricature of Hypersexualized Negritude, which scales fame to access young white women to drug and abuse? He’ll die broke. I cheerfully predict it. As soon as someone with a credible civil case and an appropriate legal venue appears – and the sharks, they circle even now – he’s going to go bankrupt defending himself, as he will be honor bound to do, since he is, of course, innocent. As far as the courts are concerned, which means nothing in these parlous times. In a way, it’s a shame for him that he didn’t go to court ten years ago. The culture wars looked a little different back then, and he might have walked free with his fortune intact.
