The disgraced comedian did not get off the hook
If sin attracts guilt, then comedian Bill Cosby drowns in the liquid residue of condemnation.
The fact that a jury could not render a decision about his sexual assault means almost nothing in the big picture of life and the hereafter. Ok, perhaps that statement does not satisfy agnostics or atheists but for true believers like myself, the devil is in the details of death and judgment.
Bill Cosby, despite being guilty as sin, enjoyed the result of a jury mistrial but the disgraced comedian did not get off.
In fact, Jewel Allison, one of approximately 50 women who have accused Cosby of sexual assault, offered her insights about her alleged attacker.
“I don’t think it’s a coincidence that we came out here and I’m hearing church bells,” Allison said. “I think God is watching all of us.”
“(Cosby) walked out but the bars were all around him,” she said. “He’s mobile, but the jail goes with him wherever he goes.”
The New York-based poet and former model attended the Cosby trial as a prosecutor pressed the accused drugged and molested Andrea Constand in 2004. The jury did not reach a verdict as the judge declared a mistrial.
What’s appalling is that Cosby supporters consider the mistrial some sort of moral victory, a reworking of past injustices perpetrated against black people.
Some even suggested that President Donald Trump escaped accusations by dozens of women, so, Cosby should receive similar exoneration.
The United States has gone mad. People have sold their souls over politics and now seem hell bent on overreactions based on race and socioeconomic status.
After eight years of watching Republicans attach to President Barack Obama every bad incident, Democrats decide on how daily incidents connect to Trump.
It’s during Cosby-like occasions that believers can rest easy, understanding that a final judgment awaits.
Maybe that’s not good enough for victims of Cosby or people who have suffered other injustices by spouses, law enforcement and even governments but it works for me.
Faith offers peace and security that a higher power has under control every human script, every plot and every circumstance.
“I’m praying for his salvation. He can come to my church anytime,” Allison said.