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Russell Simmons' Accusers Deserve Our Attention

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Even before I hit the play button to watch On the Record, the new documentary about the sexual assault allegations against Russell Simmons, I was predisposed to question them.

The Black community, mainly my own mother, raised me to believe that Black men are kings, and if you dared question them it’d mean that Black women were deemed traitors or corrupted by the White world.

She also taught me to question the motives of criminal allegations raised by White women or any women in a position to gain money from those allegations.

This is especially the case when the character of the accused–like Russell Simmons–seems incongruent with that of a sexual predator and more closely aligned with that of an enlightened yogi music mogul.

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