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The Breakfast Club Faces Backlash for Having Russell Simmons as a Guest
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The Breakfast Club receives heavy backlash on Twitter today after having mogul, Russell Simmons on the show. Simmons’ appearance on The Breakfast Club follows the release of the HBO Max documentary, On the Record. The documentary speaks out and exposes him for being an alleged sexual predator. On the Record features over 20 women who accuse Simmons of sexually assaulting and abusing them.
When asked by Charlamagne tha God whether he watched the doc, Simmons said, “I have not watched it.” Then continues to say that he’s guilty of being a “playboy” and believes the appropriate title of his actions should be “womanizer.”
Two of Simmons’ victims, Drew Dixon and Sil Lai Abrams, took to Twitter to air out their frustrations with the interview.
THIS. And @SheriSher_Bx alluded to the rape in her book in 2007. I also told many friends right after it happened but assumed I’d be blackballed, so before @MeToo happened, I assumed he’d get away with it and I’d carry it to my grave. Thank God we didn’t. Thank God we’re free. https://t.co/PegdU0OLa0
— Drew Dixon (@deardrewdixon) June 10, 2020
Teaching your daughters to have “boundaries” and say “no” won’t protect them from rapists like you @UncleRUSH I said “NO”… “STOP”… “PLEASE”… “I’M BEGGING YOU”… and CRIED, while you ripped off my clothes, pinned me down and told me to stop fighting. Fuck all the way off.
— Drew Dixon (@deardrewdixon) June 10, 2020
To be CLEAR @cthagod @breakfastclubam Your boy @UncleRUSH was stone-cold sober when he raped me. He tricked me. Said he’d ordered me a car. Told me to pick up a demo while I waited. Minutes later he emerged naked, wearing a condom and RAPED ME while I said NO, fought, and cried. https://t.co/yofn0VNmnQ
— Drew Dixon (@deardrewdixon) June 10, 2020
This is a TOXIC mess. @UncleRUSH is a serial rapist, and many of his victims are Black women. Yet @cthagod gives him a platform in the midst of a noble quest for Black liberation. We'll never get this foot off of our necks as Black people, if we don't love ourselves. https://t.co/8bZUr4JFpd
— Drew Dixon (@deardrewdixon) June 10, 2020
This is miserable. @breakfastclubam has hosted dignified guests like @KamalaHarris and my college classmate @CoryBooker and now allows the man who raped me, @SheriSher_Bx, and @Sil_Lai to smear our character and spout lies.
— Drew Dixon (@deardrewdixon) June 10, 2020
I guess Black women don’t matter after all. 💔💔💔
Thank you to everyone who is calling out @breakfastclubam for choosing to have an *alleged* 🙄 serial rapist on their show this morning to talk about how #BlackLivesMatter
— Alecto AKA Sil Lai Abrams (@Sil_Lai) June 10, 2020
I'm waiting on my invite to come on your show to discuss my *allegations* @breakfastclubam @angelayee @cthagod @djenvy pic.twitter.com/sGN0nk14Ls
— Alecto AKA Sil Lai Abrams (@Sil_Lai) June 10, 2020
.@breakfastclubam has Russell Simmons on their show *as we speak* to kiki it up with a man credibly accused of rape & attempted sexual assault to promote his book
— Alecto AKA Sil Lai Abrams (@Sil_Lai) June 10, 2020
This is what we’re up against, folks. The abject silencing & erasure of his survivors and his history of violence https://t.co/Rh3POn2e5x
Let’s have a public conversation about my allegations @unclerush. Instead of you declining to be interviewed for @OnTheRecordDoc and then using friendly outlets like @breakfastclubam to allow you to speak unchallenged.
— Alecto AKA Sil Lai Abrams (@Sil_Lai) June 10, 2020
I wrote about the rape in my first and second books. 2007 and 2016 respectively. The rape occurred in 1994. My first book was published in 2007. It took me 13 years to share my story-albeit withholding your name because I didn’t want my platform connected with his. Do better math https://t.co/hILIbaFCwn
— Alecto AKA Sil Lai Abrams (@Sil_Lai) June 10, 2020
I feel nauseous. Like, seriously sickened by this @breakfastclubam interview and I didn’t even listen to it.
— Alecto AKA Sil Lai Abrams (@Sil_Lai) June 10, 2020
This is so damn traumatizing.
People on Twitter also expressed their displeasure of The Breakfast Club having an alleged rapist on the show.
Russell Simmons is not the first sexual abuser The Breakfast Club has had on and he won't be the last.
— Kimberly Nicole Foster (@KimberlyNFoster) June 10, 2020
The Breakfast Club let Rush Limbaugh on, then followed up with Russell Simmons. I’m convinced they will let anybody on air
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) June 10, 2020
The same Russell Simmons that stepped down from all his companies & moved out of the country when multiple violent rape cases were opened against him? That “Uncle Rush”? https://t.co/PSPWIjgN0k
— Majesty Ria (@ToriNicksWho) June 10, 2020
If you want to understand how Black women survivors are silenced, look no further than how the broader hip hop community has closed ranks around Russell Simmons, blacklisted his accusers, and given him a megaphone to retrigger them. This is beyond unacceptable. https://t.co/uvVkm2yGPa
— Evette Dionne (@freeblackgirl) June 10, 2020
Why? Would you have Harvey Weinstein on? Cause that’s who Russell Simmons is. Turning your back on the women who have been brave enough to speak out… pic.twitter.com/wdrh0QhzP2
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) June 10, 2020
The breakfast club still interviewing Russell Simmons who fled to Bali to avoid being extradited for his crimes 🥴
— 🦋 #JusticeforShukriAbdi (@JustSabina_) June 10, 2020
Breakfast Club: We would never interview or play songs from R Kelly
— I’LL SLAP YO AZZ JUS CUZ OF SLAVERY (@WhattUpJT) June 10, 2020
Also Breakfast Club: Russell Simmons will be on the show tomorrow morning
The Breakfast Club continues to be the worst. After Black women held onto their stories for decades, the hosts decide to bring Russell Simmons on their show. I would say "unbelievable" but what else can you expect from that show?
— Morgan Jerkins (@MorganJerkins) June 10, 2020
Russell Simmons is saying a lot to say absolutely nothing & The Breakfast Club was the wrong platform to address a subject of this severity — rather you feel he’s guilty or not!
— Miyoncé (@Miata_Shanay) June 10, 2020
I can’t stand how they’re just letting Russell Simmons ramble in this interview with The Breakfast Club. They’re not really pressing him on these lame ass excuses he’s giving, especially regarding why he’s in Bali.
— Marie Chellie 💜🧡🤍 (@marie_chellie) June 10, 2020
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Noname Drops “Song 33” in Response to J. Cole Diss
Published
2 weeks agoon
June 19, 2020
Chicago musician Noname has responded to J. Cole in her latest release “Song 33.” If you recall, two days ago we broke down the Noname/J.Cole beef and why many were calling Cole’s controversial song “Snow on Tha Bluff” misogynist and patriarchal. Noname appears to address the diss track and more on her latest release “Song 33.”
As soon as you press play the track hits you right in the feels. A sample saying “Oh, I have ambitions, dreams / But dreams don’t come cheap” opens the song, then immediately we listen to Noname discuss the patriarchal society in which Black women are forced to exist – a society that undervalues and ignores Black women. She said Oluwatoyin Salu’s name.
I saw a demon on my shoulder / it’s looking like patriarchy
Like scrubbing blood off the ceiling and bleaching another carpet
She takes aim at J. Cole for staying silent while Black women routinely “go missing,” yet immediately having something to say when she called him out on it.
One girl missing another one go missing / One girl missing another
But niggas in the back quiet as a church mouse / Basement studio when duty calls to get the verse out
Noname lists all the brutalities happening to Black people and Black women while at the same time, calling him to action. She reminds us Black women are going missing.
I guess the ego hurt now / It’s time to go to work / Wow
Look at him go / He really ‘bout to write about me when the world is in smokes?
When it’s people in trees?
She then criticizes the internet at large for being too easily distracted by the “beef” and losing sight of “the new world order.”
It’s trans women being murdered and this is all he can offer?
And this is all y’all receive? / Distracting you from the convo wit organizers
They talkin abolishing the police
This the new world order
Noname has always been an outspoken champion for Black women’s rights, often bringing attention to crimes committed against Black women that regularly go unheard. In her response to J. Cole, the musician again uses her platform to not only highlight the inherent patriarchy that causes so many Black female victims of violent crime to go unnoticed and forgotten, but to also galvanize Cole, to publicly and boldly challenge him and everyone listening to be the vanguards of a more just and equitable society.
Noname’s call to action is one that has been repeated by women of color for years. Tarana Burke (below), a woman of color and the founder of the “Me Too” Movement, initially began saying the phrase to remind women of color that they are not alone when they struggle with coping with sexual harassment and sexual assault.
Kimberlé Crenshaw (below), another woman of color and an outspoken feminist and civil rights activist, coined the term “intersectionality” to explain the myriad obstacles Black women face in society and how those obstacles compound on one another to create a unique brand of discrimination against them.
As we take each and every day, but especially this Juneteenth, to reflect on the painful history of the United States and remember the priceless cost of freedom, we must heed Noname’s call and begin to acknowledge the ways we Black Americans are not free, the ways Black women are not free.
And we must do it in a QUEEN TONE!!!
— Noname (@noname) June 18, 2020
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