(ThyBlackMan.com) So I was watching the Soul Train Music Awards just jamming. A LOT of my old faves were performing! It was the perfect way to end a Thanksgiving Weekend.
Then it happened, R Kelly came on stage. As I watched him free I lamented for the girls who he raped that are not free. I lamented for the girls who’s names that we will never know and who feel some type of way every time her Aunties and Uncles jam whenever his music comes on the radio or television.
Does their pain means nothing? We fight for the rights of Black people, but who fights for the rights of little Black girls. Who protects them? And then I started thinking, “What if R. Kelly’s victims were not Black?”
If R Kelly’s victims looked like the Sweet Valley Twins the judges would not have been so easily purchased and he would be behind bars or just now coming out of jail, not coming off tour.
If R. Kelly’s victims were not Black we would not make ignorant remarks like,
“She knew what she was doing.”
“She didnt look 14.”
“Where were her parents?”
When did it become okay to blame rape victims? I remember being 14 and if some famous, celebrity wanted to do more than I had ever done before…yep, I probably would have done it too. It doesn’t make it right. It would have made me 14, and assaulted.
It doesn’t make it right that the horrible R Kelly tape ONLY came 
out because a should have been hit maker was falling off and sent his tape to the media and the authorities.
If you think that R. Kelly has paid his debt to society, then leave your 10 year old daughter with him. Will you be jamming to “Seems Like You’re Ready?” after he gets to know your niece or daughter?
The problem with R Kelly is that he is NOT an anomaly. 1 out of 3 girls is molested. So if you are sitting with your two friends, at least one of you was assaulted before you could even walk to the corner store by yourself…by uncles, fathers, aunties, teacher and pastors.
In the Black community we have consistently swept the assault of children under the rug, especially if a powerful man was doing the abusing.
For money, for convenience, to keep a man, to keep the jams going…it’s okay if little girls have to live in painful silence and pay for a sexual deviants behavior because we don’t want to rock the boat (no pun intended).
We need to Jared his a** and all other criminals like him. And when you jam to his music, buy his concert tickets and turn your head because …well your daughter is safe…you encourage a system that belittles the lives, vagina’s and hearts of little Black girls.
Plain and Simple, if R. Kelly’s victims weren’t Black, I would be saying, “Wow, that dude really had a good career ahead of him. It’s a shame that he ended up in jail for rape.” instead I am saying, “I hate seeing his a** on TV like sex with little kids is cool and a whole audience of people holding up red cups singing his songs.”
Point Is…stop buying his music. Rape is Rape.
