R Kelly & The Duke Rape Case & Akon Part I.

Texas Truth, my new muse, musta been in my head this morning, because he just sent me a link regarding the fact that R. Kelley's case has not started yet.

All three of the cases have a similar thread which is the issue is someone having sex with a Black woman or girl.

I have been meaning to write about R for a hot minute.

I was reminded of him this weekend when I went on a date with myself to Barnes and Noble and read the new Essence cover to cover. I also read Curve w/ bad @ssed Michelle Rodriguez on the cover, and the new Pink magazine.

Peep the article about R. Kelleys wife in Essence. Yes. Old Boy is married. Yes they are estranged.

But Andrea says she had to cut some people off who said nasty things about her husband, and surround herself with people who she believes care for her. "I know the allegations aginst my husband don't reflect on me as an individual," she says. "They don't reflect on me as a mom or as a wife, and they don't reflect on me in my everyday life."

Thats interesting. Wouldn't it be more apropo to say that they don't reflect on her wholly. To say that they don't reflect on her at all gives rise to some credibility issues, as she MARRIED HIM in the first place. Post. Alliyah. mind you.

Back to Duke.

After I made my statement in Evidence in April I had a conversation with a classmate.

I told him that SOMETHING HAPPENDED at Duke that night.

It may or may not have been rape.

But something happened.

Here is the kicker, this dude went to school in St. Louis and told me that
it is common practice for frats to hire dancers to come to school parties during the rush period and FOR THE frats/athletes to have sex with them.

I then followed up saying that is this an EXPLICIT arrangement?

He said sometimes it is sometimes it isn't.

I then followed up asking, "So sex with one of these women dancers is understood, and it may be included in the actual fee she is paid to come to the campus or she may agree to be paid on the spot for each individual encounter".

He said yes.

NOW THIS BLEW me out the water.

NOT because it existed.

But because mainstream MEDIA DID NOT TELL THIS PART OF THE STORY.

That what happened on Dukes campus, the ACTUAL HIRING of the dancer in the
first place is common practice among fraternities across the country.

The things you learn when you talk to your white peers. LOL.


Back to R. Kelly.

The Newsweek article that TT sent me is on point. They mention:

1. What if the gurl in the video with R.Kelly was white? Would the trial have allready started

"Many Kelly watchers also believe that the case hasn't moved faster because of racial factors. "If those girls had been white, he'd be in jail now," says Shakema Long, 18, a coed at Cal State. "But they were black girls, and nobody cares about us."
2. The raised the question of whether R.Kelly's attorney's strategy is to try and wait as long as possible so that the alleged victim has turned 18.

"...say they think Kelly and his lawyers are stalling until the young girls become adults, when they'll be less sympathetic victims—and, in the case of the girl in the video, less recognizable".

3. Is R. Kelly a sexual predator? I mean seriously. Of all the jawns he could cake, he want that 16 and under set.

"You'd think that the state would have a strong case. Kelly had a well-known interest in minors. In 1994, he illegally married the singer Aaliyah when she was 15 and he was 28. Kelly has reportedly been sued four times by women who claimed some type of sexual misconduct; Kelly is believed to have settled all of the cases for unspecified amounts. Some people say there were other incidents as well. "A lot of people knew what was going on and chose to look the other way," says one of Kelly's former employees, who admits to being one of those people. "He wasn't doing this without help."

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Are negros too forgiving of their stars?

Michael J? Mike T? R. Kelly?

Notice how they all have had sexual infractions?

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