On his Facebook page, Cosby posted a photo this month of a bold, new portrait of a younger “Dr. Cosby” as the artist delivered it to his New York home. Cosby calls the portrait, “Restoration of Legacy.”
And in a longer SiriusXM interview last week, he reiterated his desire to clear his name, resume his career and restore his legacy.
“I want to get back to the laughter and the enjoyment of things that I’ve written and things that I perform on stage,” Cosby said. “I still feel that I have an awful lot to offer.”
Loyola Law School professor Laurie Levenson wonders if Cosby is trying to signal to blacks on the jury with his recent comments, by sending the message “that you have a mission on this jury, to make sure he’s not treated as a black man who’s come on aggressively to white women.”
At the same time, she said, Cosby is hardly the average black defendant.
“Bill Cosby is African-American. But he is the African-American celebrity who crossed the race divide. He had enormous appeal to white households,” Levenson said.
