Right!!! As a mixed race child raised in a Black home in the 70s and 80s, Bill was my hero! I hung on his every word in those "United Negro College Fund" commercials about a mind being a terrible thing to waste. I loved Fat Albert and The Cosby Show...and then...
Same with Michael Jackson, Woody Allen and I'm sure I could come up with more names. I wasn't a kid, but Stephen Collins from Seventh Heaven comes to mind.