RUSSELL SIMMONNS
I Get It And I Respect It…The Harriet Tubman Video Has Been Removed.
In the whole history of Def Comedy Jam, I’ve never taken down a controversial comedian. When my buddies from the NAACP called and asked me to take down the Harriet Tubman video from the All Def Digital YouTube channel and apologize, I agreed.
I’m a very liberal person with thick skin. My first impression of the Harriet Tubman piece was that it was about what one of actors said in the video, that 162 years later, there’s still tremendous injustice, and with Harriet Tubman outwitting the slave master, I thought it was politically correct. Silly me. I can now understand why so many people are upset. I have taken down the video. Lastly, I would never condone violence against women in any form, and for all of those I offended, I am sincerely sorry.
~Russell Simmons
The clip features an actress portraying Tubman having sex with her white slave master as someone films it so the abolitionist can bribe her boss. The "Harriet Tubman Sex Tape" video was posted Wednesday.
The 55-year-old Simmons, founder of Def Jam Records, wrote Thursday that he "can now understand why so many people are upset." He said he removed the video after a call from the NAACP.
Simmons added that he doesn't condone violence against women and that he's "sincerely sorry" to those offended by the clip. Though Simmons removed the video, it still lives online.
Tubman spent nearly 30 years as a slave before escaping in 1849. She led hundreds of slaves to freedom as part of the anti-slavery resistance network known as the Underground Railroad.
You think being raped by a white
man back then and today are funny? The thought of that alone for all the crimes
in which they have committed against our race, to being snatched from our
country, separated from our love ones, humiliated, stripped of our dignity and
pride, our heritage and native tongue that only we are the one left to bear the
pain generations later and not one been brought to justice yet, is more than
enough of a reason to hate and kill every single one of them and leave not a
single child left breathing, but you think it's good for a laugh when no one
black or white want to talk about what was done and how it has effected
both races mentally. Now you see why some people don't need to think out
loud. You can't buy love, yet he tried too, nor can you buy a
brain. That's one transplant they will never be able to figure out no
matter how much money he would be willing to pay because for some of us being
intelligent is a blessing which it appears it wasn't one of the gifts he
received. Still THINKING OUT LOUD returning this fall, Hosted by E. L. PLEASANT
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