Hollywood, pedophiles and cultural appropriation: Why Hocus Pocus is a pedo movie that children should not be exposed to

The cultural appropriation of Nina Simone

The witches in the Hocus Pocus movie didn’t put a spell on anyone. According to the plot of the movie they are too busy “drinking and eating” children to do so. If they put a spell on anyone they might as well just put a spell on themselves so they do not have to eat children. Showing a bunch of white witches re-enacting, very badly mind you, Nina Simone’s version of I Put A Spell On You does not serve the plot of the movie or does anything for it. The makers put that song in the movie to culturally appropriate Nina Simone’s music and African American music in general. I’ve read a lot of articles on the cultural appropriation of Nina Simone and none have cited Hocus Pocus as an enduring example.

Funny how the so-called iconic moment of the film is one of cultural appropriation. Nothing iconic should be cultural appropriation.

Billy Butcherson in Hocus Pocus was ACTUALLY Screamin’ Jay Hawkins

Billy Butcherson Scene in Hocus Pocus (1993)

I say this because Billy Butcherson act and behaves exactly how Jay Hawkins acts in this live performance of I Put a Spell on you below. Screamin’ Jay Hawkins was a legendary rhythm and blues singer whose theatricality involved popping out of a coffin while on stage. According to the Los Angeles times, “The coffin routine started in 1956 at the suggestion of New York disc jockey Alan Freed. Initially, Hawkins was reluctant to get into the coffin, but after Freed offered him $2,000 for the stunt, it became part of the act.”

In addition to the fact that Jay Hawkins was the original singer of I Put A Spell On You, the Hocus Pocus witches rendition of the song was of Nina Simone’s version because Jay Hawkins was a male so most likely their rendition was of a woman that did the song, the most famous one being hers, Nina Simone.

What happened in this live stage performance by Jay Hawkins

Why Children Should Not Watch Hocus Pocus

Hocus Pocus is not a children’s movie and should’ve never been written, directed or produced and should’ve been BANNED. Just because something is marketed as a children’s movie doesn’t mean it is or appropriate for child consumption. The ending of the movie only proved that the children from the beginning of the movie were successfully “eaten” by the witches. Witches that eat children?? Disturbing. How was that a thing? Evil only exist as long as people stand by and do nothing for witches to have been “eating” children in the first place and it be the norm throughout the entire course of that horrible film. Adults not believing children is used as an acceptable excuse to have children running around trying to stop “child-eating witches.” Not a child’s fight and should be the responsibility of adults. And why wasn’t it? Other than the perverted writers know how dumb many adults can be and that they don’t do anything about anything but allow evil to run amok.

The witches in Hocus Pocus

The boy and his little sister were not saved and as a child growing up and watching that movie, I only cared about the boy and his little sister at the beginning of the movie, instead the movie just dragged on and on and we only saw them again at the end of the movie where the movie-makers wanted to prove that the witches did in fact “eat” them. Well the boy remained a cat forever. But the fact that he and his little sister turned into ghosts at the end tells you that they might as well have “eaten” the boy too. The writers were trying to show how much power that adults have over children, in a negative manner, that the little boy couldn’t do anything about staying a cat forever. Good is how you overcome evil, so it’s unlikely that he couldn’t do anything other than the perverted writers just wanted to exploit the “powerlessness” of children and the innocence too while they’re at it. They’re implying that children are powerless and they can be exploited at will. Nevermind that responsible adults are supposed to be making sure that doesn’t happen.

Children movies are supposed to always have a strong sense of hope and this movie was nothing but hopelessness and despair specifically, the ending of the movie which was far from a happy or hopeful ending. The best children’s movies are the ones that are also family movies and have that strong sense hope.

Also, I wasn’t convinced that those witches were put away for good and wouldn’t return AGAIN to “drink/eat the spirits of children” again after a century granted a candle is “lit by a virgin.” This allusion to “child virginity” only tells you one thing and that this movie was written by a straight up pedo. Disgusting to say the least another reason it should’ve been banned and pulled from the market, the makers investigated and arrested as fit..etc. Let’s say that sex is a spiritual act. What’s so special about a virgin, “a underage, teenage virgin” at that that one has to light a candle for the witches to be brought back to life? It’s simply perverted pedo writing. There is no way around that. Then they’re putting that into a movie like they purposely want kids to be exposed to the concept of virginity in a perverted kind of way where their supposed to care. Exposed to the concept of virginity, period which everybody knows is the opposite of sex, i.e., someone that has not had sex before. The meaning of virginity is exactly that. So why does any reference to sex exist in this movie at all? A Disney movie at that, a channel for children.

Hollywood, pedophiles and cultural appropriation: Hocus Pocus quotes that reek of pedophilia:

We Must Find The Book, Brew The Potion, And Suck The Life Out Of The Children Of Salem Before Sunrise." -  Winifred Sanderson 


“I smell children!” — Winnie


"You know, I've always wanted a child. And now I think I'll have one on toast!" — Winifred Sanderson


It's a little girl. - Mmm! Seven. Maybe eight. And a half. Ooh, let us play with her! Come, little children... [If this isn't pedo talk I don't know what is]

Such a pretty little... child. Look at her. And she's so well fed, isn't she? Plump. Plump! [Just more pedo talk]

"Boys will love me!" - [Pedo that loves little boys]

The writers get to hide their satiation by making the witches say those lines so their pedo ways can safely be hidden, complete with costumes, smoke and potions and cauldrons which all serve to hide the true intentions of perversions so Hocus Pocus can be celebrated every Halloween for decades to come.

Many times society teaches us to not follow our instincts or intuition. When children follow their intuition, then they have no genuine interest in that Hocus Pocus movie. It has only been shoved down their throats every Halloween, and is another form of child mental abuse. That movie makes me sick every time I am reminded of it, and shouldn’t be viewed by children even with an adult. Most adults don’t even notice how pedo the movie is. One can infer that Hocus Pocus is just a pedophile movie about eating children; in other words, a pedophile wrote Hocus Pocus. You can tell how much of them are in Hollywood just by the content of a lot of these movies. It’s sick!! See, Hollywood, they’re trying to control your mind and your thoughts. Don’t let them do that to your children.

Sources

Billboard – Google Books

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-feb-13-me-63954-story.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screamin%27_Jay_Hawkins

The Two Killings of Sam Cooke: THE BLATANT DISCREPANCIES IN THE MURDER TRIAL OF SAM COOKE THAT ANYONE WITH HALF A BRAIN CAN SEE

If you watched One Night in Miami and became interested in how Sam Cooke was murdered like I was, you will probably be interested in this:

The Two Killings of Sam Cooke, Great Netflix documentary for those interested in what happened to this legendary singer

The Two Killings of Sam Cooke, Sam Cooke’s murder trial

Sam Cooke’s family at the inquest.
It is said that Sam Cooke’s father asked Bertha Franklin why she killed his son and she reportedly replied, “I didn’t kill your son.”
Source: One More River to Cross: The Redemption of Sam Cooke by B.G Rhule

The previously mentioned Netflix documentary The Two Killings of Sam Cooke barely scratches the surface of the first murder of Sam Cooke which was the physical one but does with the second one which was the tarnishing of his reputation still smeared 60 plus years after his murder as I stated here. Below I will examine the “first murder” a continuation of LEARNING ABOUT SAM COOKE AND OTHER GREAT MEN OF COLOR THROUGH THE MOVIE One Night In Miami.

Everything that that hooker-prostitute ( Crystal Chen Young) and that female pimp aka Madame (Bertha Franklin) said should be discarded completely. The mob probably paid them off. The authorities should have checked Franklin’s bank account and see if there was any changes in her spending habit to see if she was paid an elaborate sum of money. Since they didn’t do that that indicates that they were also paid off by the mob. The hooker-prostitute got arrested for prostitution shortly after by an undercover officer and then she was arrested and jailed for murdering her boyfriend 7 years later (1979). Just like she lured Sam Cooke to his death. Gee, she must be no stranger to horrific deeds, having already, Cooke’s blood on her hands. 

If the hooker-prostitute didn’t play a key role in getting Sam Cooke murdered then she would just get up on that stand and just tell the truth. Why lie? Why tell this generic story that she tells anytime she gets into deep trouble with any man that he tried to kidnap her and raped her.  Makes it more difficult for any female that that actually happened to. Why lie? Unless the results of the trial was already pre-determined. They planned to let both those fall-females off the hook and the-brains-behind-the-operation too before the trial even begun. They only had the trial to say they had the trial.  It was an hastily concocted trial that did not actually solve Cook’s murder but disrespected his family and insulted them and his supporters’ intelligence. Both she and Franklin could not have passed a lie detector test. One doesn’t need a lie detector test to know they’re both lying. Especially the Asian hooker who is not as good of an actress as the Madame. Their stories don’t add up and makes no logical sense. So that means the lie detector test had to have been rigged if they ever took one. 

Sam Cooke was robbed then murdered, mob music industry attempted robbery and hit

Mafias aka the mob’s involvement in the music industry

Before I get started, if you haven’t watch the videos above you can read more about How The Mob Used Murder to Build Music Machine Empires Here with their ownership of the jukebox. This will provide insight into why Sam Cooke was murdered by them.

How do we know Cooke knew Boyer was a hooker? This is likely what happened: the hooker was paid and planted at the time and place they knew Sam was going to be. She likely threw herself at him and told him a lie or two. The first lie was probably that she was a dancer. The second one was that she wanted to go home. He gave her the benefit of the doubt. She give him a false address luring him into a location where a gangster-mob was waiting for him whereupon they beat him with an elongated object like a baseball bat probably while he was still in his Ferrari. Held a gun to his head and forced him out of his vehicle. Whereupon they proceeded to beat him in their attempts to extort him and when that was unsuccessful they shot and killed him in anger then robbed him of $3000 cash.  They figured that Sam Cooke isn’t going to give them any long-term cut or hand over his music publishing company so his income from one concert alone would have to suffice for the low-lives. Then they left $100 on him to deter people from thinking he was robbed. Because most people’s mind work like this: if all the money on Cooke isn’t missing then it wasn’t a robbery. WRONG!! That was a cold-blooded murder and higher-up robbery attempt relegated to a street robbery because Cooke refused to be extorted long-term. And they weren’t done yet. They now had to cover up their heinous crime. 

Sam Cooke was already dead when they took his body to Hacienda motel

A portion of Sam Cooke’s autopsy Medical Report
Source: One More River to Cross: The Redemption of Sam Cooke by B.G Rhule

They took his body to the Hacienda motel and Franklin checked him in using his real name and the mob paid her to fabricate a story that she shot him in self defense. She literally sat there and made up the whole story, with the mob mind you, in order to tell the police and/or the public. Elisa Boyer, whose real name is Crystal Chen Young, did not get paid because Franklin is her pimp so all the money went to her instead. Otherwise why would Boyer agree to have sex with an undercover officer for $40??? I don’t think Boyer only frequented that cheap motel, I think she actually lived there. Perhaps she had an agreement to live there with the motel manager who was her Madam/female pimp. The latter was Franklin’s primary occupation and the motel management position only was her supplemental income.   The motel was $3/night so she was scarcely making enough. 

I wouldn’t be surprised if that motel was owned by the mob. They take their killings there and frequently pay Franklin to cover them up. They can depend on her and in return they give her a steady stream of income that being a cheap-motel manager couldn’t give her. Hardly anyone was checking into that cheap sleazy motel much less Sam Cooke. In her office she was just making deals with the mob.  In fact she might has well had pulled the trigger on Sam Cooke herself, covering up his murder the way she did. She’s just as guilty as the ones who pulled the trigger. Also the mob used their ownership of the jukebox to exert force and control in the music industry, but where are the jukeboxes now? Obsolete. Bet they didn’t have the foresight to see that one coming.

Like B.G Rhule states, author of One More River to Cross: The Redemption of Sam Cooke, when the LAPD showed up at the crime scene, they immediately “declared the murder justifiable homicide and did not arrest Bertha Franklin, “no chalk drawings, and no examination or preservation of crime scene evidence.” Next time, I will be discussing Sam Cooke’s manager Allen Klein and speculations that he was behind his murder following Sam Cooke’s discovery that Klein was extorting huge sums of money as alleged in B. G Rhule’s book.

Disclaimers

The views and opinions expressed in this blog are simply those of the author: ME @howtobeasingersongwriter
My content is not intended to malign any religion, group, club, organization, company, individual, or anyone or anything!

Copyright 2021 @howtobeasingersongwriter

Sources

Sam Cooke’s 1964 Murder Case Needs Further Exploration – Radio Facts

How the Mafia used to control the music industry – Click Track: A Music Business Newsletter

The dark history of the jukebox: how the Mafia used murder to build music machine empires – Click Track: A Music Business Newsletter

Learning about Sam Cooke and other great men of color in the movie ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI on Amazon Prime

One Night In Miami movie poster

One Night In Miami, a fervent history lesson stretching far beyond Black History Month

The only one of the four alive: Jim Brown

The movie, One Night in Miami, is a history lesson. To be honest, I only knew about Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) but learned about Sam Cooke and Jim Brown by watching this movie. Maybe if I grew up in the United states, I would’ve known the last two without having to watch the movie to do so.

The most captivating soul songs that I used to hear all the time were sung by Sam Cooke such asA change is gonna come I was born by the river and cupid draw back your bow and let your arrow go straight to my lover’s heart for me

That I didn’t take the time to research these songs and find out who sung them is a mystery. Also, I always wondered who would be considered the greatest American football player and it was like this movie answered me and said Jim Brown. So I did research on both of them and just assumed that they’d have passed away but was genuinely shocked to find out that Jim Brown is actually still alive. So that was a relief for me. I enjoyed how Jim Brown was portrayed in this movie.

However, when I researched Sam Cooke it was the complete opposite of what I wanted to hear happened to him. That he was allegedly murdered by hotel manager and “ex” female pimp, Bertha Franklin following an altercation. Not to mention an allegation that he kidnapped a hooker and was going to rape her in the Hacienda hotel. His death was ruled “justifiable homicide” and as noted in this blog’s Introduction to Sam Cooke, would tarnish his reputation as a pop icon regardless of whether the ruling was true or not. The first thing I thought was how does one of the most successful and well-known singer-songwriters of his day, responsible for the number one pop song, “You Send Me,” would ever need to kidnap a female when he had multitude of star-struck female-fans gawking and screaming at him non-stop at his concerts and who would willingly fling themselves at him? These and other questions, I had spurred on by the article below:

Regina King’s new film One Night in Miami raises questions about the soul legend’s 1964 murder in a Los Angeles motel

Why Mystery Still Shrouds Singer Sam Cooke’s Shooting Death Nearly 60 Years Later | PEOPLE.com

This article got me to really start thinking. The author, Jordan Runtagh, pointed out that Cooke had been shot with a .22 pistol, but the gun registered to Franklin was a .32. Also that the bullet that went through his body was taken into evidence by the LAPD but ended up missing. Runtagh also pointed out that Franklin claimed that she shot Cooke and because he was still coming after her, she reached for a broom and beat him over the head with it. The question that many people haven’t asked that Runtagh pointed out was that if Franklyn was scared for her life, why would she drop the gun, “in favor of a stick?”

Sam Cooke’s murder, worse than Malcolm X’s

Sam Cooke’s body being carried out of motel (1964)

Also how would anyone with a brain believe that Bertha Franklin, who was 55 years old at the time, could cause so much physical injury to Sam Cooke, who was 33 years old at the time? By now I was convinced that Sam Cooke was set up like Wesley Sniper in The Contractor complete with a cover-up. The only difference is that Wesley Sniper’s set-up was so elaborate that even an experienced detective would be fooled. Sam Cooke’s set-up wasn’t that good, flimsy and rash, yet his murder wasn’t thoroughly investigated or solved because 1) his physical injuries doesn’t match Bertha Franklins account of what happened. 2) That hooker’s, Elisa Boyer, account that she was kidnapped and that Cooke was going to rape her doesn’t add up. For example, didn’t he allegedly check himself into the hotel, if so, why didn’t she scream for help and escape at that moment? Also, why would he check into a cheap rundown motel with a hooker using his real name especially when he had his pop-star image/reputation to maintain?

It was then that I concluded that Sam Cooke’s murder was even more violent than Malcolm X and Cooke was never an espouser of “violence” not even a public advocate of self-defense, or anything along those lines. Atleast with Malcom X’s murder, one of the assassins got caught, and his name was Thomas Hagen aka Talmadge Hayer, who spent most of his life in jail for taking part in the murder.

Many people, including the “honorable” Elijah Muhammad that Brother Malcolm looked up to so ardently, said that that’s what you get for being an espouser of “violence” and that he, “got what he preached.” But what of Sam Cooke, who was friends with Malcolm X? Cooke never dealt with violence, was never seen or heard “espousing” it but got murdered in such a violent manner.. Did Sam Cooke get what he preached? What about Martin Luther King who preached non-violence? Wasn’t he assassinated in a violent manner? Surely a “prophet” of “God” would have the answer to that question too correct?

The More Likely Manner In Which Sam Cooke was Murdered (viewer/reader discretion advised)

Motel Hacienda (1964) in South LA on Figueroa St were Sam Cooke’s body was found

Sam Cooke’s body in casket with face injuries, broken neck and broken and mangled hand (1964)

After reading Digital and Radio Facts’ interpretation of Bertha Franklin and Elisa Boyer’s accounts has being nonsensical and illogical, here is what I believe likely happened to Sam Cooke:

They killed him, perhaps in a dark alley where they do habitual killings, and took his body to the motel in order to cover up the crime. Obviously they knew Sam Cooke had a lot of money and knew who he was in the music industry.  Both the hooker, whose real name is Crystal Chen Young and the madam, Bertha Franklin were the “fall guys” or in this case the “fall females.” The mob, who by now had their claw clenched deep in the music industry and Sam’s music business associate enemies, who were in cahoots with each other, were the brains behind the operation. They were against Sam wanting to own his music because they wanted a cut, meaning they wanted his whole music publishing company. The mob were the ones that beat him and Sam’s hand was broken because he was likely trying to stop the blows from the beatings. When it became clear that he would not be extorted, they shot him. His head was almost severed from his neck meaning they probably tried to strangle him earlier with the elongated object. His neck likely got severed further as they were moving his body haphazardly into an unmarked vehicle. Then severed even further as they moved his body into the Hacienda motel. His nose was deformed meaning they beat him in the head with the elongated object. He sustained more injuries than what a broom handle alone can do as stated by Etta James and Muhammad Ali who viewed his body. Also, they took Cooke’s pants off and left him in a jacket alone in order to substantiate Crystal Chen Young’s fabricated story that he tried to rape her after kidnapping her.

The gun that Sam was shot with was different than the one that the madam was registered to. No one in the motel or nearby said they heard any gun shots and we all know it’s impossible to not hear gunshots. The bullets that Sam was shot with turned up missing so that is an indication that the LAPD was involved maybe not in his murder but in the cover up. Actually the cover-up means they’re involved so I take that back. Both the hooker and the madam had past crimes that were never brought up during the trial. That would’ve given more context into how Sam was murdered. The latter is another indication of a police coverup. So I’m guessing that the LAPD were paid off by the mob using that five grand that they stole from Sam that he had from a concert he did.  Also they don’t want a black man owning his own music and helping his own people, specifically other black musicians, as it was unheard of at the time. Jealousy, greed, corruption and materialism. Also the FBI knew he was hanging around with Ali and Malcolm X and the like whom they surveillance and topped it all off when they sanctioned the LAPD not looking any further/investigating what happened to Cooke.

The above speculation is barely scratching the surface. I will go into more details on my post entitled, “The Blatant Discrepancies in Sam Cooke’s Murder Trial That Anybody with Half a Brain Can See,” that will follow this post so stay tuned.

The views and opinions expressed in this blog are simply those of the author: ME!
My content is not intended to malign any religion, group, club, organization, company, individual, or anyone or anything!

Copyright 2021 @howtobeasingersongwriter

Sources

Was Sam Cooke’s Death Really A ‘Justifiable Homicide’? (allthatsinteresting.com)

The Mysterious Death of Sam Cooke (performingsongwriter.com)

Sam Cooke’s 1964 Murder Case Needs Further Exploration – Radio Facts

One Night in Miami: how the biopic shortchanges Sam Cooke. (slate.com)

Amazon.com: One More River to Cross: The Redemption of Sam Cooke eBook: Rhule, B.G., RICHARDS, DONNA H., KATSUNE, JOANNA, JAMISON, EUGENE: Kindle Store