There are a series of scenes in the documentary On The Record that are nearly impossible to shake.

In one, Drew Dixon, a former Def Jam A&R executive who says that Russell Simmons violently raped her in his apartment in 1995, contemplates whether to go on the record with her accusations for a 2017 New York Times article . Even though she walked away from the music industry because of the trauma she faced from Simmons, the idea of speaking out against the king of hip-hop weighed heavily on her soul.

Looking at how Anita Hill and Desiree Washington, a beauty queen who accused Mike Tyson of rape in 1991, were horribly treated by Black people, Dixon was terrified that the culture she loved would turn on her as they did on them.

The Black community will hate my guts, Dixon, 48, said in the film directed by Amy Ziering and Kirby Dick. Im going to add fuel to the myth of the sexually aggressive Black man? I dont want to let the culture down. I love the culture. I loved Russell too. I wanted him to be a hero too.