Dahleen Glanton: African-American families say 'good riddance' to Bill Cosby
The problem with Cliff Huxtable is that he wasn't real.
African-Americans wanted him to be. In fact, we needed him to be.
Cliff represented the men we knew - our husbands, our fathers, our brothers, ourselves. We had been around smart, loving, self-confident black men all our lives, and Cliff introduced them to the rest of the world.
But he was merely a figment of Bill Cosby's imagination, a character the actor created to keep us
