Moore was a 27-year-old black gay male who worked as an escort, while Buck is a 63-year-old well-known white gay male Democratic donor. At the time, his death was immediately classified as an accidental methamphetamine overdose by the coroner. Gemmel Moore was found dead of a crystal meth overdose in Ed Buck’s home July 27. Ed Buck is a white man of means with a list of alleged victims who have come forward with stories about a man who they say has a Tuskegee Experiment-like fetish, which includes calling black men the n word and shooting drugs into them that he picks up off the street or via dating hookup websites. Meanwhile, right next door in West Hollywood, just two months after a black gay man was found dead in his home of a crystal meth overdose, it’s business as usual for a prominent Democratic donor alleged to have engaged in some inappropriate conduct of his own. threatening to stop working with the company if Harvey Weinstein was still associated with it, and the Republican National Committee has put out a national call for Democrats to “return dirty Harvey Weinstein cash.” There are reports of clients of the Weinstein Co. Former and current employees are saying they knew about his behavior. I cannot overlook the involvement of white women because they played an important - if not decisive - role in the media's decision to cover the story and the swift action taken on Capitol Hill that reverberated all the way to the boardroom of Weinstein’s own company.Īs expected, actors, producers, and elected officials are falling all over themselves to either distance themselves from the situation or to jump on the bandwagon condemning Weinstein for his behavior. Well, three days, a New York Times exposé, and a list of white women who claimed the powerful film producer engaged in inappropriate conduct that included sexual harassment, unwanted physical contact, and sexual advances. Just the mere allegation from a white woman of her being violated in some sexual way is still enough to bring this country to its knees - and for there to be consequences.Ĭase in point: Just three days after a New York Times investigation detailed numerous incidents of alleged sexual harassment by media mogul Harvey Weinstein, the board of directors at the Weinstein Co. The violation doesn't even have to be true.
The violation doesn’t have to come attached to criminal charges, lawyers don’t have to vet the accuser’s entire background, there aren’t editorial meetings where stories are canned because the victims are the wrong color, wrong sex, and in the wrong tax bracket and because editors are worried about their friends in elected office being embarrassed. When white women are violated, America responds and the response is immediate.