Russell Simmons pissed much of the world off with his Harriet Tubman "sex tape" video. He posted it on the first day of his "All Def Digital" YouTube page, but it has since been removed-- however, if you want to know what the hubbub's about, you can watch it below.

The "Harriet Tubman Sex Tape" video shows Tubman having sex with a white plantation owner in order to obtain freedom for the enslaved.

"This our only chance to getting freedoms," the actress playing Harriet Tubman says.

The video is a charming story of endemic racism and sexual exploitation that many feel simplifies a complex history into a crass joke. In a nutshell, it says that Tubman used her sexuality to obtain freedom for hundreds of slaves, not her intelligence or general awesomeness. Because obviously, sleeping with a powerful man is the only way anyone ever gets anywhere, and being granted freedom would only happen with the permission and goodwill of a benevolent white man...not by being smart enough to outwit malevolent slave owners.

In the video, a black man hides in the closet as a plantation owner comes in the room and has sex with Tubman. The male slave films the act. After intercourse, Tubman tells the slaveowner she has "leverage" and will expose his "Negro-loving ways" using the video her friend just shot.

"I am not sure why anyone would think this would be funny, nor can I comprehend how any Black actor would agree to participate in such coonery," NewsOne wrote. "Perhaps the intellectual depth of their humor amounts to nothing more than the antebellum humor with which house Negros would have entertained their slave masters. What is clear is their astonishing disregard - and ignorance - of their history."

Simmons promoted the video in a now-deleted tweet, which called it "the funniest thing I've ever seen":

Following, of course, immediate outcry.

The NAACP even asked Simmons to remove the video.

In his apology, he said,

In the whole history of Def Comedy Jam, I've never taken down a controversial comedian. When my buddies from the NAACP called and asked me to take down the Harriet Tubman video from the All Def Digital YouTube channel and apologize, I agreed.

I'm a very liberal person with thick skin. My first impression of the Harriet Tubman piece was that it was about what one of actors said in the video, that 162 years later, there's still tremendous injustice. And with Harriet Tubman outwitting the slave master? I thought it was politically correct. Silly me. I can now understand why so many people are upset. I have taken down the video. Lastly, I would never condone violence against women in any form, and for all of those I offended, I am sincerely sorry.

Watch the controversial Harriet Tubman Sex Tape video below.

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