Sean “Diddy” Combs, a 54-year-old rapper and business entrepreneur, made his hip-hop musical career in the 1990s. His major success was when he became a musical producer and a business mogul, with a touch in liquor, clothes, and cologne.
According to the New York prosecutors, Sean Diddy was running a double life: the one the public knew as a successful business mogul and a secretive one of a violent man managing a sex trafficking and prostitution enterprise since 2016.
Sean has denied all the allegations and is being held without bail because the court believes he is a flight risk, could interfere with the investigations and is capable of endangering the public at large.
This article reviews his legal problems, seeks answers to his plight as a black man in white man’s America, and discusses Sean Diddy’s future.
Like it or not, Sean Diddy has indelibly made a glorious mark in Hip-Hop culture with his ability to promote his musical career and identify and groom others who made names for themselves.
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Some of his mentees include the Notorious BIG, Faith Evans, Usher at 14 years of age, and Mary J. Blige, among other artists. Some of the artists he mentored have been rumoured to have suffered sexual abuse under his tutelage.
However, the artists themselves have yet to come out and file a complaint against him with the police. Sean Diddy’s name has been adversely mentioned in the assassinations of both Notorious BIG and Tupac. However, the FBI has yet to lodge a formal investigation against him.
Other prosecutorial scholars believe that the New York prosecutors’ indication that the indictments against Sean Diddy were still an open case indicated that the list of his criminal indictments is likely to grow longer than the one currently announced.
Nobody can guess what other new charges will be unveiled against him. Sean Diddy’s legal problems are a mirror image of those of another musical icon, R. Kelly, who was convicted by a Chicago grand jury for child sexual abuse offences.
Kelly had appealed his convictions, and the matter is still under sub-judice. The difference between the two musical icons was the age of their victims.
Kelly’s case was simplified by the video recordings he had made and kept them. Similarly, Sean Diddy’s case largely depends on video recordings he had filmed and stored in his vaults, innumerable sex toys and lubricants.
A number of his alleged victims have also lodged criminal complaints against him with the police in various states in the US where the alleged sexual criminality took place.
Looking at the reasons why sexual offenders preserve self-incriminating evidence against themselves intrigues many a criminal scholar.
Some scholars suggest that self-incriminating evidence should be kept because offenders desire to get caught.
Others feel those explanations are inadequate to satisfy the obsessions of the offenders to relive the sexual crimes they had committed. A new thinking has arisen that pivots to sexual offenders’ reasons to commit those crimes is a sense of powerlessness.
They overcome that hollowness in their lives by imposing their authority on those who are weaker than them. This is why violence, intimidation, inducements, control, and cover-ups are all wrapped up together to ensure the veneer of power and authority is sustained and replenished over time.
Henceforth, keeping souvenirs from previous sexual assaults appeals to them. Those keepsakes become like stimulants, furthering their intoxication.
It was a reminder of their past feats and a burning catalyst for repeating them in the future. It’s like being a junkie who needs a pill here and there to sustain a certain level of getting high and staying high to defer withdrawal symptoms.
Over time, the sex offenders, depending on their means, create safe houses or vaults or cupboards or boxes loaded with trophies painstakingly collected from their victims during or after the sexual attacks.
These trophies can be pants, bras, bracelets, watches, phones or anything from their victims that will perpetually connect the offenders with their victims. African Americans are yet to shrug off the negative effects of enslavement and subjugation running over two centuries.
The upshot has been a deep-seated inferiority complex. Some have embraced crimes against humanity to flex their muscles to overcome them. Under this prism, we can understand why Mike Tyson could not accept “no means no” from Desiree Washington.
Tyson felt disrespected and had to do what a man has to do: violate her sanctity in the hope she would endure the humiliation and the violations in silence.
Desiree had to fight the emotions of being abused. She left to nurse her physical and emotional turmoil alone while contending with the stigma of being ostracised for bringing down the career of the most successful boxer of his generation.
It took three days for Desiree to make the most difficult decision of her life come out and reveal she was a victim of rape and sodomy. The world was stunned.
Most people wondered why Tyson risked his boxing career for a one-night stand that did not consent. They brainstormed about it, but the perils of mental and physical subjugation blacks, in general, underwent rarely considered.
In most cases, rape cases tend to have no racial differentiation because of the concern of eliminating deterrence. Tyson’s lawyers tried to make a similar defence of whether the assembled jury was aware of how African Americans seduce each other—the art of communication for sex encounters.
The Court did not buy the argument as prosecutors complained that the defence was seeking ways to have an all-black jury to exonerate Mike Tyson.
The world was shocked when a video showing R. Kelly urinating on a teen black girl surfaced. Many wondered and asked the question WHY without getting satisfying answers.
North American marketing and sales departments have profiled African Americans as unsophisticated customers who like to brag and show off their latest acquisitions.
As a result of this research, goods and services sold to African Americans tend to carry a 20-25% markup for just being blacks when compared to other races targeted for the same services.
It narrates partly why poverty overwhelms blacks more than other races, but it also expounds why successful blacks fall from grace is much easier.
Most successful blacks whose fairy tales of poverty to insane riches and vice versa find disgraced blacks offloading their riches for a song when declaring bankruptcy, the items that they had bought through their noses.
Let’s say they bought a mansion for USD 100 million, but it will be sold for USD 15 million to pay the creditors! Rarely do their lives have a happy ending.
While Sean Diddy’s legal problems are widely acknowledged as self-inflicted wounds, racial injustices in America have contributed to Diddy and others of his ilk’s conduct.
The more the contribution of racial injustices is interwoven in understanding what is wrong with American Americans will go a long g way to appreciate where they are coming from and why they behave the way they do to hatch remedial measures.
A source of a problem is the first step to solving it.
