‘I believe I can fly’: R. Kelly’s reign of terror ends

From racism to rape, African American women have been in a pandemic of oppression since we were brought here on the slave ships.  Some of it inflicted upon us from others – starting with our White “Masters” on plantations, and some of it inflicted on us by our own damn kind. For generations, the “body” of the Black woman has been abused as much as it was coveted, leaving us in a constant war, fighting for our rights and dignity. We can read a dozen “self-help” books and attend a dozen more “women’s empowerment” conferences, but there will be no real justice until our voices are heard. And this week, it was. For 30 years, Robert Kelly has been using his fame and fortune to rape and imprison young women and no one did anything to stop him.  He got one slap on the wrist after another, even after videotapes surfaced — some showing him urinating on teen girls — and instead of penalizing the obvious offender, the country shamed the victims for no other reason than the fact that he was rich, and his victims were POOR BLACK WOMEN! Say what you want in dispute, but I speak truth to the power that has now been proven beyond reasonable doubt in a court of law. The case against R. Kelly — the “Pied Piper of R&B” — is NOT the typical case of an innocent Black man getting “set up” by lying (White) women.  He is not an Emmett Till or the thousands of other Black men who have been wrongfully accused, incarcerated, or even killed by a racist system and lies perpetuated against our Black men.  No, he capitalized off the sympathies of these past atrocities. Kelly is a pedophile, a sex trafficker and misogynist who is as disgusting as the uncle at the family reunion that the older women in the family warn the younger women not to be around. “Don’t give him a hug when he calls you over.” “Don’t let him tickle you,” and “Don’t you dare sit on his lap!” Yes – he’s that […]

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