11/20/2025
I tried to shorten this clip as much as I felt possible. It’s part of a larger podcast episode where I talk about my thoughts based on an exchange I had with a Black woman and Mental Health Advocate who was celebrating Diddy on verdict day and taunting the victims.
This is my reaction to her claim that Diddy was targeted which she seemed to think excuses him of the actual horrific things he did. In the episode, I talk about the role of MH advocates, and their importance and responsibility in the field of mental health. And why this MH Advocate had a responsibility to deal with this situation in a more responsible way. And why Diddy possibly being targeted due to his race and or power does not negate his accountability in his behavior and our responsibility in society to hold abusers accountable for the safety and health of our children, women, and men. Not minimize their behavior, coddle, enable, and protect them under the guise of protecting Black men.
If we truly love and want to protect Black men, and by extension Black children, Black women, Black communities, we can’t act like this is normal and acceptable behavior, because that’s not who Black men are. Black men are not the poster children for predators. And it’s our responsibility to love and support them in the ways that facilitate them being healthy and safe from others and safe to others. To support them in being great, like so many of them are. That’s our responsibility as Black people, Black women, and for me a Black psychologist, and her a Black woman who is a Black Mental Health Advocate.
(SN: I recorded this some weeks ago, but given all that we keep seeing with the Epstein files and other cases that are not as prominent, I hope you are seeing how much of a problem it is to empower SA)
