THE PRESSURE IS INCREASING ON RUSSELL SIMMONS IN THE WAKE OF
MORE ALLEGATIONS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT.
IN THIS VIDEO WE'RE
GOING TO BE BREAKING DOWN TO SOME OF THE DETAILS COMING OUT
OF AN EDITORIAL OR A NEWS REPORTS OF THREE MORE WOMEN IN THE
INCIDENTS THAT HAPPENED WITH RUSSELL SIMMONS OVER THE COURSE
OF THE LAST SEVERAL DECADES.
IT IS VERY IN-DEPTH AND THERE IS A
LOT OF VERY UNCOMFORTABLE DETAILS IN THIS, SO WE'RE NOT TO
COVER ALL OF IT.
YOU CAN READ IF YOU WANT TO BUT HERE ARE SOME
OF THE DETAILS, AND WHAT HE IS DOING IN ADVANCE OF MORE OF
THESE POTENTIALLY COMING OUT.
HE SAID ON INSTAGRAM I BELIEVE
TODAY:
OF COURSE, SAYING THAT THEY ARE PURPOSEFULLY MISREPRESENTING
WHAT HAPPENED AND COULD BE SEEN AS ARMING THE MOVEMENT OR
BESMIRCHING THE MOVEMENT.
HE IS TRYING TO WALK A CAREFUL LINE
THERE.
HE SAYS:
BUT LET'S GO TO WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED.
THIS IS THE FIRST.
ON WORK CALLS HE TALKED ABOUT HOW SHE AROUSED HIM.
HE
SHOWED HIS PENIS.
AND LATER THAT YEAR HE IS ALLEGED TO HAVE
RAPED HER IN HIS DOWNTOWN APARTMENT.
MS.
DIXON SAID SHE
QUIT DEF JAM SOON AFTER SAYING, SHE WAS BROKEN.
THAT IS THE
FIRST BOTH SEXUAL HARASSMENT OF A PARTICULARLY GRAPHIC KIND AND
THEN SEXUAL ASSAULTS THAT IS HAPPENING DIRECTLY IMPACTING HER
CAREER.
THAT IS ANOTHER ALLEGATION OF
RAPE AFTER THE CESSATION OF A
ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP.
THIS LOOKS REALLY BAD.
HE VEHEMENTLY DENIES IT, SO THE ONE
PART OF HIS STATEMENT WHERE HE SAYS, IT IS NOT TO DIMINISH THE
ME TO MOVEMENT, I JUST HAPPEN TO BE INNOCENT.
THAT IS ENTIRELY
POSSIBLE THAT SOME POINT SOME GUY WILL OF COURSE BE AN ASCENT,
AND HE IS NOT MEANING TO DIMINISH FROM ANY MOVEMENT, HE
JUST DOESN'T HAPPEN TO HAVE DONE IT.
I DO NOT KNOW THAT THAT THIS
IS THAT MOMENT.
THESE ARE VERY SPECIFIC CHARGES FROM A MULTIPLE
OF WOMEN WHO HAVE CORROBORATING WITNESSES FROM THE TIME, NO
WITNESSES TO THE ACT BUT WITNESSES TO COMING OUT OF THE
SITUATIONS AND TELLING, IN ONE CASE IN EX-HUSBAND, AND ANOTHER
CASE A THERAPIST THIS IS WHAT YOU JUST DID TO ME ALL THE WAY
BACK THEN.
THERE IS ONE OF THE WOMEN REPORTED TO THE POLICE.
THERE POORLY THOUGHT THEY DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH EVIDENCE TO TAKE
ACTION BUT SHE DID REPORT IT TO THE POLICE.
IT IS POSSIBLE TO ALL OF THEM ARE MAKING IT UP ALL AT THE
SAME TIME.
AT THOSE TIMES.
BUT IT DOES NOT LOOK LIKE IT.
ONE OF THE COUNTS WAS
PARTICULARLY HAUNTING.
IT IS A WOMAN WHO WAS TRYING TO GET INTO
THE MUSIC BUSINESS.
SHE I BELIEVE HAD GONE TO STANFORD
FROM SOME TIME AND SHE GOES IS TRYING TO LIVE HER DREAM AND
THIS IS, OTHER THAN THE CHARGES OF SEXUAL ASSAULT WHICH ARE
HORRIFIC ENOUGH OF COURSE, BUT IT IS THE IDEA OF THE
OPPRESSION, THE NONSTOP OPPRESSION.
IF YOU WANT TO GET
ADVANCED IN YOUR CAREER, YOU CAN'T BE LIKE A GUY AND JUST DO
IT ON YOUR MERIT.
YOU HAVE TO CONSTANTLY BE OPPOSED TO GUYS
TRYING TO HAVE SEX WITH YOU WHO ARE YOUR BOSSES OVER AND OVER
AGAIN AND IF YOU DO HAVE SEX WITH THEM, YOU GET FAVORS BUT IF
YOU DON'T, THEN YOU ARE PUT BACK OR YOU GET FAVORS FOR A BRIEF
PERIOD AND THEN YOU ARE CASTOFF OR YOUR REPUTATION IS RUINED OR
GOD KNOWS WHAT.
IT'S REALLY DAMNED IF YOU DO DAMNED IF YOU
DON'T.
I THINK THAT A LOT OF MEN, SINCE THEY'VE NEVER EXPERIENCED
HAVE NO IDEA THE DEGREE TO WHICH WOMEN WERE SYSTEMATICALLY
OPPRESSED IN THIS COUNTRY FOR SO LONG.
SO MANY CAREERS RESORTED,
A LOT OF THESE WOMEN JUST GAVE UP AFTER A WHILE AND ONE OF THE
THEN PRODUCED A GREAT HIT.
SHE COULD ABOUT A GREAT CAREER AND
GOT ONTO ANOTHER PLACE FOR SHE WAS THEN SEXUAL HE HARASSED
AGAIN, REQUESTER SHE EVENTUALLY JUST GAVE UP ON THE MUSIC
INDUSTRY.
IT'S DAMN NEAR IMPOSSIBLE TO GET AHEAD IN SOME OF THESE
INDUSTRIES AND FOR THIS TO BE A HURDLE WHICH IS SO DISCONNECTED
FROM YOUR TALENTS, YOUR WORK ETHIC, ANYTHING HAVING TO DO
WITH THE NORMAL THINGS WE WOULD THINK THAT WOULD AFFECT WHETHER
YOU GET AHEAD OR NOT, THAT YOU GET ABUSE IN THIS WAY IT HAPPENS
IN A LOT OF INDUSTRIES.
EVEN IN OLYMPIC GYMNAST X, THERE'S THE
DOCTOR WHO SEXUALLY ASSAULTED DOZENS AND DOZENS OF GIRLS.
HUNDREDS OF GIRLS SO EVEN AS A CHILD IN A SPORTS, YOU CAN'T
AVOID IT AND WE KNOW AND ACTING, THE CONCEPT OF A CASTING
COUCH IS BEEN AROUND FOR A LONG TIME BUT HOW OFTEN WERE
CONVERSATIONS ABOUT CASTING COUCH IS THE PRELUDE TO
TRYING TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT?
I HAVE TALKED TO FRIENDS WHO THINK SORT OF, THERE'S SOMETHING
ABOUT THESE INDUSTRIES WHERE THEY THINK, YOU GO IN AND OKAY,
SOMEONE PROPOSITIONS YOU FOR SEX, JUST SAY NO.
BUT
UNDERSTANDING THAT THESE ARE GATEKEEPERS FOR THE FUTURE OF
YOUR CAREER AND THERE IS NO RESPECT FOR THE IMPLICIT THREAT
AND PRESSURE PUT ON YOU.
THAT THIS IS NOT SIMPLY, CIRCLE YES
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO HAVE SEX WITH ME.
IF NOT, WE WILL WATCH HER TAPE AND MAYBE YOU WILL MAKE IN
ANOTHER WAY.
BUT DOESN'T EXIST.
ONCE YOU GO IN THAT ELEMENT THIS IS ALL THAT MATTERS AND I
THINK EVEN NOW PEOPLE TO HAVE A PROPER LEVEL OF RESPECT FOR
HOW THAT PREFERS THE SYSTEM.
AND IF YOU ARE WONDERING WHY SO MANY IN THE MEDIA WORLD IN
POLITICS, SO MANY OF THE STORIES ARE COMING OUT IN THOSE
INDUSTRIES, COUPLE OF DIFFERENT INDUSTRIES.
ONE, IT MIGHT BE
HAPPENING WITH YOUR LOCAL DENTIST BUT THE PERSON IS NOT
FAMOUSÖ COURSE TRUE BUT THE SECOND PART OF IT IS THESE
INDUSTRIES HAVE MORE GATEKEEPERS SO YOU GO TO LAW SCHOOL, YOU
BECOME A LAWYER.
YOU GO TO MEDICAL SCHOOL, YOU BECOME A
DOCTOR SO
THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOU WON'T HAVE SEXUAL-HARASSMENT AT LAW FIRMS
OR IN A MEDICAL CONTEXT, FORCE THERE IS BUT IT'S MORE PREVALENT
IN THESE SITUATIONS WHERE THERE'S A FEW GUYS WHO HOLD ALL
OF THE POWER AND THEY GET TO MAKE OR BREAK CAREERS.
THE
POWER GETS ABUSED FAR MORE OFTEN AND SO THAT IS WHY IN MEDIA
AND IN POLITICS YOU ARE SEEING A LOT MORE THAN YOU ARE IN
OTHER INDUSTRIES.