r. kelly acquittal discussion continues

my girl: i hear you Riley!!!!! i didn't get to hear Wendy Williams today but i bet it sound like your commentary.

the funny thing is that he is not ALLEGEDLY the 1st nor the last celebrity to sleep with a minor. the only reason why it will not be publicize is because no one is going to tape themselves doing it. sorry but i am a Kelly fan when it comes to his music. i dont condone anyone who hurts children in anyway shape or form. IF he indeed has a problem, i hope that he gets help for it.

only R.Kelly and the HIGHER BEING knows what really happened.

so do you think Michael Jackson should have gone to jail? how about O.J.? Kobe?

me: m.j., yes. o.j., yes. kobe, i don't know. rape cases are very iffy, especially when it supposedly started out consensual. only the people involved know if one of the parties said stop. when you take race and which side society thinks i should pick because of my race out of the equation, it gets a little clearer. the o.j. case was only as big as it was because he was a high-profile black athlete married to a white woman. society would've united quicker and then lost interest faster if his wife was black. (sidenote: some small part of every black person rejoiced when o.j. got off, not because murder should be celebrated but because it was the first time people could remember a black man beating the system at its own game. add the whole dynamics of some black men subconsciously choosing to be with white women as some kind of payback and it made the situation even more bittersweet.) the whole m.j. thing is always a hot discussion because not only does it involves a global superstar that happens to be black but it also involves little boys, most of which are white. white america could care less who r. kelly is peeing on, as long as it's not some white chick. the only reason they paid attention now is to see how black america responded. so the next time black america is calling for justice for some atrocity, best believe they are gonna play the race card before we do.

the difference to me between the r. kelly case and the o.j. case, besides the fact that r. kelly didn't kill anyone, is the race of the victim. if people still want to look at r. kelly's case as another example of a black man getting off, consider the victim was a 14 year old black girl. that makes all the difference to me.

r. kelly acquitted on all charges when i wish that he really was trapped in a closet

i awoke from a nap to find this in my mailbox - Jury acquits R. Kelly of all counts - Yahoo! News WTF is wrong with people?! of course, this begged for discussion.

my girl : i told you Chicago loves R. Kelly to much to see him go down. i cant wait to see the Boondocks do a skit on the trial! R.Kelly is probably about to make the best music of his life now. i am not gonna front, it would have been horrible to see him have to go to jail.

me (typed with disgust): his ass needs to go to jail. he needed counseling for the act itself (and all the other examples of his deviancy - marrying aaliyah, all the innuendo about sex with little girls in his songs and allegedly trying to pin it on his brother) but he needs to be in jail for the blatant lying. everyone's expecting him to come out with the next i believe i can fly and that negro is gonna go right back to trapped in the closet. if this was a priest, would black people actually be protesting for his acquittal with their only justification being that he can make a hit record?! please! when it comes down to it, he just made songs that i could shake my ass too...and i stopped listening/supporting anything r. kelly a long time ago.


aaron mcgruder called it and while i laughed and shook my head then, somewhere deep down inside, i knew that it could happen. i just hoped and prayed that people recognized their foolishness in time and called it as it was. but no. black people rallied around an unworthy cause again...just when i thought that things were changing for the better. damn.