California Diversity Chief Blames Harvey Weinstein’s Victims for Abuse

Kevin E. Hooks also mocked Bill Cosby’s drugging of women and rape

California’s attorney General has tapped him to become his first diversity and inclusion chief. He claims that Harvey Weinstein’s victims knew exactly what they were doing, that he sympathized during Bill Cosby’s rape trial and that innocent men should be sacrificed in support of the #MeToo movement.

Kevin E. Hooks is the state’s diversity, equity, inclusion and inclusion guru. He stated that the women who said they were forced into having sex with Weinstein had made the decision to trade sex for jobs in the film industry. “I want to have an uncomfortable conversation,” Hooks stated on Sept. 2018. Episode His CEOLife podcast. “If you call my sister, or my niece, or some of the women I grew up with, up to a hotel suite to have a ‘business meeting,’ and you open the door in a bathrobe, it’s not not going to end like some of these ended.”

Hooks, who on January 17 was Tapped Weinstein was appointed the first chief diversity and inclusion officer of the California Justice Department. Weinstein’s victims were forced to endure the sex assaults by the disgraced Hollywood producer.

“What’s the psychology,” Hooks said, “that separates a women’s Spidey-Senses from going, ‘I’m not going in there,’ to [doing] the cost-benefit analysis of, ‘But this is my opportunity to get a job, and I’ve been in this industry for 20 years, toiling away, waiting tables on the side, and I finally get an invitation to Mecca.'”

Hooks’s comments may put him in conflict with his new employer. Rob Bonta (D.) is the California attorney general. It is unambiguously stated That “sexual violence derives from unequal power relationships, and is one of the most common violations of people’s rights.” Gov. Gavin Newsom (D.) has So called #MeToo Movement “a profound opportunity to address deeper issues.”

Hooks didn’t respond to our request for comment. The California Department of Justice spokesperson said that Hooks’ comments will be reviewed by the agency, but it is not obligated to do so. “unable to comment on a potential or ongoing personnel issue.”

Hooks insisted that Hooks was right “blaming” Weinstein’s victims, however, questioned the motives for those who agreed privately to meet with the former Hollywood mogul. He is serving a 23 year sentence. Penalty sentence For rape “I want to know what makes a woman—my sister, who would’ve probably, she’d have punched him and kicked him and left—versus, you know, some of the women that are listed, the Ashley Judds of the world, that dealt with his crazy, and then were assaulted by this guy.”

More than 80 women have been certified. Accused Weinstein accused of sexual misconduct Includes California “first partner” Jennifer Siebel Newsom. The acress Rose McGowan claimed Siebel Newsom contacted her  on behalf of Democratic superlawyer David Boies in 2017, in a bid to get McGowan to stop working with the New York Times on a Weinstein expose.

Hooks was a Los Angeles-based marketing executive who ran the Las Vegas Clark County Urban League before moving to corporate DEI consulting. CEOLIFE Unplugged. The podcast was hosted on YouTube by the Las Vegas Urban League.

Hooks did not support Weinstein as a sex predator. Hooks also criticized a guest for suggesting that Bill Cosby should spend his entire life in prison.

“You don’t feel sorry for him, that he’s blind?” Hooks refers to Cosby’s Claim He was found out in 2017 that he was going blind. This was widely believed by many to be a form of sympathy during his trial. “So he can’t really sexually harass nobody now because he can’t see them coming,” Hooks laughed and added that “he can’t slip the thing in the drink because he’d miss the drink!”

Sixty-five women have Accused Cosby accused of sexual harassment, rape and other crimes The comedian has admitted that he was subject to sexual harassment and rape. Drugging 2018 sentence for women convicted of having sex with another woman: up to 10 years imprisonment

Hooks says he wants it to be “cultivate a more inclusive environment” His work at Justice Department also led to him claiming on the podcast that it was a good thing for innocent men being accused of sexual assault.

“I’m on record as saying, there’s going to be some innocent men who fall in the MeToo movement, but rightfully so,” Hooks said, “because so many years we spent ignoring the claims and allegations and challenges that women face in the workplace.”

Hooks, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer is responsible for “cultivating a work environment that values the differences, talents, and abilities of all employees.”