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

The fall-out against the most powerful Hollywood film mogul has been long in coming. Let's not stop there.

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Michael Jackson and Tupac Shakur Were Not Spared
There is a Pattern to Weinstein's Immunity From Prosecution

Listen to one 2015 New York police audio released by The New Yorker, where the sick film mogul aggressively works on the mind of a very frightened young woman in a hotel room.

You'll hear Filipina-Italian model, Ambra Battilana Gutierrez, repeatedly say no she doesn't want to come in. She doesn't want Weinstein touching her. She tells him she feels uncomfortable. She tells him "yesterday was too much." He tells her he's well-known in the hotel , admits he touched her inappropriately and that he is "used" to groping women's breasts without their permission. She tells him she doesn't want to come inside his hotel room, time and time again. She wants to go back downstairs. The sick, low life bastard, used to getting what he wants without consequences, tells her "don't embarrass me in the hotel. I am here all the time." Weinstein presses Gutierrez hard to either place herself at his mercy in the hotel room and sit while he gets naked and takes a shower, or "never call me again." Emphasizing his huge celebrity status, prestige, and power in the industry, he tells Gutierrez he's a famous guy and "don't ruin your friendship with me"" Even a first-year law student could reasonably argue the groping he admits to, the heavy bullying to coerce her into his room, the veiled threats to retaliate and even to the intent suggested with the order, "go to the bathroom." For what?

As a lawyer, I am still wondering why the New York police and prosecutors made this courageous, but frightened young woman - who stood on her own inner strength and power to get this pervert on tape, go through that frightening experience and then did not charge Weinstein for the sexual misconduct. It's just not right.

We can only push for the recent revelations to give the spineless New York prosecutors a spine and some level of accountability to respect women, the sanctity of their bodies.

For 30-years, Weinstein used his celebrity status and reputation to avoid the consequences of his actions. There is no statute of limitations for rape in New York. There's a five-year limitation for sexual felonies, assaults and offenses. The Ambra Battilana Gutierrez case is still within the five-year statute of limitation provision.

You hear the pervert admit he touched Gutierrez inappropriately the day before. You listen to how he manipulates by making the victim feel she is hurting his "reputation" with the hotel by protesting his advances. By any standards that's good evidence to start a case of fraud and sexual assault. I know for a fact the New York police and prosecutors have no qualms when charging young Black males, like Pac, on just the word of totally compromised accusers, no taped evidence in the perpetrators own voice.

Yet, Weinstein wasn't charged. Remember too how California law enforcement ruined poor Michael Jackson's life on their charges of sexual molestation of children?

Michael, who was innocent of pedophilia, was acquitted. But the sad truth is, white America generally thinks all Black males are criminals, all white males are innocent. Tupac was never convicted of rape but groping. He actually served 8-months in jail for a most vague charge of "groping" Ayanna Jackson, who I saw, with my own two eyes, consensually performing oral sex on him, in public, downstairs on the dance floor at Nell's nightclub in New York, just four days before she accused him of rape in 1993. But don't tell that to most journalists. Some still claim he was convicted of rape. They simply write untruths. Depend on racist assumptions and the colonial narrative to back them up.

Similarly, Michael Jackson was never forgiven for getting acquitted.

That one truly offends me to no end. Michael Jackson did not merit such unwarranted hate. He was a pure heart. Lots of people knew he did not molest children. Michael was really too good for this depraved world. Yes, he had self-esteem issues and destroyed his skin trying to erase the African features, trying to be more white in a racist world where he craved status-quo approval. But Michael Jackson loved the innocence in children. He would not have taken it away.

The industry destroyed him because they couldn't control his fame and power. Wanted his art without having to pay the market price for it. But rich white males like Weinstein, with serial sexual felony and misconduct allegations, get a free pass. The law enforcement authorities dismiss victims, like Gutierrez, who are brave enough to go to the police immediately.

Now that these famous white actresses are coming forward, think about what was happening in Hollywood in the time when Michael and Tupac were getting smeared and crucified? Michael Jackson was, after all merely a Black man who had gotten too famous for them to exploit and control without consequences. He was a disturbed former child superstar, but he was innocent of pedophilia and got acquitted, notwithstanding the continued smearing and media and music industry prosecutions. I think the world will see this more clearly only when the owners of the entertainment industry, the rich white Hollywood and music industry pedophiles - both heterosexual and homosexuals - are finally outed.

Most people will only see this when white male luminaries, perhaps such as Elton John and his co-horts, who host one of the highest-profile annual Oscar parties during the Academy Awards, finally man up and start talking. That time we are awaiting.

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