The Russell Simmons 'sex tape' apology is not enough
buzzz worthy. . . By Mona Austin Russell Simmons, music and fashion mogul and the man behind Def Comedy Jam, has failed royally in his latest business venture aimed at profiting off humor. Simmons presented the "Harriett Tubman Sex Tape" video as the abolitionist's diary on his You Tube channel,All Def Digital, which caused a firestorm of backlash from the Black community. The video depicts Tubman willingly having sex with her "massa," at one point sodomizing him, while a fellow male slave hid in the closet filming their intercourse, as he sang "wade in the water." This footage her conspirator gathered was intended to be future blackmail to help Ms. Tubman emancipate the enslaved. I was appalled at the disrespect against African Americans in general and African American women in particular that Simmons has exhibited with a sex tape that mocks the life-risking feats of an abolitionist heroine. The video should never have been created. ...