Bill "the creep" Cosby

Taylor Jean-Gilles

Bill Cosby Story

9/18/15

         Childhood stars and shows usually leave great memories in your mind. But lately, the ones who act in the shows that we grew up loving tend to have a negative image/perspective in each of our minds. Bill Cosby, a father figure, was also known as Americas’ dad at one point. He was a lot of African American males role model. Bill has let a lot of people down in the black community for the actions he made in the past, and now finally seeing daylight. After many allegations have been put out on Bill Cosby for sexually assaulting women in his early stages of his career the public has finally put the allegations to rest by agreeing with the women who have been assaulted.

There has been plenty of evidence that shows a pattern in which Bill Cosby took young naïve women and brought upon drugs into there relationship, a lot of the times without the women knowing. Most of the women who were drugged by Bill were drugged on Quaaludes. Quaaludes are a prescription pill which helps put people to sleep. In the mid 1960’s Quaaludes were prescribed to housewives who had trouble controlling their nerves and sleeping. Once the drug became popular, many decided to put it into their alcoholic beverages. Mixing it with alcohol will give you a drunken, sleepy high. What many did not know except for doctors was that taking a heavy dosage of the drug could lead to respiratory arrest, delirium, kidney or liver damage, coma and death. The drug became such a bad thing that in the 1970s it was labeled as a Schedule 2 controlled substance.

Bill Cosby after being accused by more than 30 women had finally admitted to getting the prescription pills to give to women to have sex with from released documents. Documents dating back to 2005 from a civil lawsuit filed by a woman named Andrea Constand who was 1 of the 12 women who had called out Bill for sexual assault. Although Bill Cosby and his lawyer tended to never answer any questions relating to the rape charges, the public perspective on him was becoming more and more negative. While Bill and his lawyers said to give out prescriptions of Quaaludes to numerous women he also never admitted to actually drugging them. Many of the women with the allegations said that the only reason they were even in the presents of Bill was to start off the careers they were desperately looking for. They assumed that Bills television friendly image would benefit them in a way off him going out of his way to contact many of his friends in Hollywood. That alone sounds promising to many off us but how naïve could these women be when having a slight clue of how much a sick, disgusting guy he actually was. It seemed like most of these women had no sense of common sense. Think of it from this perspective it is not shaming the many women that were assaulted but it just raises questions on the demeanor of these women and the thought process as well. Joan Tarshis who accused Bill of raping her at the age of 19 said she was afraid to talk about it in the past because she was afraid of Bill’s power. At first she felt Bills power because when she and many others first came out accusing Bill they were all called liars. She was quoted saying “I think the message has to be that fame and wealth and power cannot exempt you from justice”. Once more of the truth came out the people who supported Bill started falling off. Most of the support was coming from the Black community because the image that the Cosby show left on us was exactly what every black family in America was striving for.

Although Bill is 77 years old he fought all the documents accused of him claiming it would violate his and others privacy from embarrassment. Because of the statue of limitations has passed, it has prevented prosecution. Bill cannot be sent to prison due to the fact that there’s no evidence, no burdens of proof, no cross-examinations, and no standards of admissibility. Although Bill wont be in a jail cell any time soon the court of public opinion will always see him as a disgusting person and his image is forever ruined.

Works Cited

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"What Are Quaaludes and Why Did Bill Cosby Use Them?" Time. Time, n.d. Web. 19 Sept. 2015.

"Bill Cosby Admitted He Got Quaaludes to Give to Women - CNN.com." CNN. Cable News Network, n.d. Web. 22 Sept. 2015.

Dailymail.com, Wills Robinson For. "'We Can't Be Disappeared': 35 of Bill Cosby's Rape Accusers Come Together in Powerful Magazine Shoot to Recount Their Experiences at the Hands of America's Once Favorite Dad." Mail Online. Associated Newspapers, 27 July 2015. Web. 23 Sept. 2015.