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Beyond Bill Cosby: 2014 Was The Year We Stopped Worshipping At The Altar Of Monsters

2014 Was The Year We Stopped Worshipping At The Altar Of Monsters
Amanda Duberman
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Deputy Editor, HuffPost Personal

LOS ANGELES, CA - DECEMBER 05: (EDITORS NOTE: Image has been converted to black and white and digitally retouched) A general view is seen of the clean-up of Bill Cosby's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame after it was defaced with the word 'rapist' on December 5, 2014 in Los Angeles, California. Approximately 20 women have accused Cosby of sexual assault. (Photo by Chris Weeks/Getty Images,)
LOS ANGELES, CA - DECEMBER 05: (EDITORS NOTE: Image has been converted to black and white and digitally retouched) A general view is seen of the clean-up of Bill Cosby's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame after it was defaced with the word 'rapist' on December 5, 2014 in Los Angeles, California. Approximately 20 women have accused Cosby of sexual assault. (Photo by Chris Weeks/Getty Images,)

They don’t want me talking,” Bill Cosby finally said over the weekend. “You do that you have to go in with a neutral mind.”

But we are never neutral with our idols, because we give them our faith. Here was the man who brought us Doctor Cliff Huxtable – and with him a new vision of the black nuclear family and the middle class. For years, it had been whispered about: “Cliff Huxtable drugs and assaults women”. But this year was the year of the fallen idol, when the whispers became shouts and we were forced to confront how sometimes, we place too much faith in the wrong people – how sometimes, we don’t want to be talking amongst ourselves but we must.

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