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Black males get smeared and falsely prosecuted: Harvey Weinstein gets a 30-year cover-up

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Within days, more than 30 famous white actresses and women revealed, they too, were sexually assaulted or harassed by Weinstein. The list grows daily. But that's not the end of it. Terry Crews, a former professional football player, and Black actor joined in to say it's not just beautiful white women who are affected by the casting couch. Crews tweeted that the Harvey Weinstein allegations gave him PTSD.

Crews, a 240lbs very large Black male says he too was also once sexually assaulted by a high-level Hollywood executive. Read the details here - Terry Crews Recounts Sexual Assault By 'Hollywood Honcho'.

Actress Kate Beckinsale says Weinstein's behavior is the status quo in the business.

Beckinsale said the 81 Oscar-winning producer made unwanted sexual advances toward her at the Savoy Hotel in London when she was 17 years old:

"Let's stop allowing our young women to be sexual cannon fodder, and let's remember that Harvey is an emblem of a system that is sick, and that we have work to do." -- Kate Beckinsale, Hollywood Reporter, October 12, 2017

Describing Weinstein, The New Yorker writes:

"His movies have earned more than three hundred Oscar nominations, and, at the annual awards ceremonies, he has been thanked more than almost anyone else in movie history, just after Steven Spielberg and right before God."

Oh, how this Hollywood "God" and faux-liberal has fallen from his pedestal.

If the most famous and wealthy white women in the world were afraid to name names, identify and expose sexual harassment and rape for 30-years because the sexist media and corporate machinery and its lawyers would have crucified them, destroyed their careers, imagine how much worst the plight of materially poor Haiti women, children and the Ezili Network defending Haiti, headed by a resource-less Black woman without any status quo support?

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Sex-for-jobs and Advancement: The Norm

Hollywood and corporate America have a history of protecting the Roman Polanskis and Woody Allens. Mia Farrow was left in the Hollywood cold, remember? When the Bill Cosby sexual allegations hit the media and white women kept coming forward, I wondered when the owners of Hollywood would similarly be put on blast for the culture of sexism and sexual abuse known as "the casting couch?"

The jobs-for-sex and advancement culture is no secret.

I know what I am talking about. Not only in terms of the faux liberals in the humanitarian industry, but in the media and Hollywood's Lalaland.

I spent my early career doing entertainment law. I was at Nell's nightclub with a music client that infamous night in New York that helped falsely nail rap legend, Tupac Shakur, for "groping." I saw with my own eyes the whoring and procuring happening in the entertainment industry.

After I left the entertainment industry because of the rank misogyny, I met it in Haiti, at the National Palace and through defending the human and economic rights of vulnerable Haitians, especially the children.

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