Black Women : Remember R. Kelly?

[yaphet al-wynn]

Not to belittle what has been said before. Now the state of Illinois and the City of Chicago can be corrupt places as far as the law is concerned. Now what happened with 'innocent until proven guilty?' Now R could have been the guy in the video, but IF the state of Illinois and the city of Chicago are dragging there feet and the videotape is 'slam dunk' against Kelly even if the 'victim' is reluctant to come forward (can easily solve that by giving immunity and declaring her a hostile witness and threatening the parents with aiding and abetting) then let the feds take over-they DO have child porn and prostitution laws(if the girl actually kept the money as alleged that Kelly gave her in the video) to prosecute. Enough time has passed that an indictment should have ALREADY come down. Those who are buying his music are doing so with the thought of 'innocent until proven guilty'. If YOU are accused of something vile-you'd want the same presumption until a trial is held and completed.

 

[Queenie]

You're right yaphet---Jim Brown, Mike Tyson, OJ Simpson, Michael Jackson, R. Kelly, Kobe Bryant, et al. do deserve their day in court and should not be tried in the public arena BEFORE the jury has had an opportunity to see/hear the facts and render a decision.

 

[Sekhemu]

Ashe NNQueen.

Part of the problem with parents today is the need to feel we have to be our childrens friends. Instead of assuming leadership and responsibility. It's often very painful to do what is right, particulairly when we don't want to... but you are right Queen, we need to call our people on the carpet. Stop pandering to people that are not raising our level of awareness and creating and maintening the cycle of mediocrity and superficiality.

We don't have a whole lot of time to set things straight. The future is now! So I say again, we ought to make a pariah out of people like R. Kelly et al. This is the time for probably the only time for those in the position of responsibility to start acting responsible instead of what feels comfortable

Hotep

 

[yaphet al-wynn]

We can make a pariah out of anyone, but not if someone or something tells me too. Tyson is a pariah already with me. Not because he's a street thug but a street thug that was taught skills and received love from a man(Cus D'Amato) that raised him as his own and taught him right from wrong and received more **** opportunities than anyone. Jim Brown an intelligent and a very complex strong man that is embittered by America and to a certain extent by OJ for not getting all that he is due. Now does he have problems with women? Well some incidents were explained and confirmed by the 'victims' themselves. The woman that he allegedly threw-she said she slipped when going out the window to get in the apartment below so the cops couldn't find her. My mind is still out on Jim-too many coincidences.Kobe-since it is new-benefit of the doubt given my gut feelings says about 60% that he did something,about 40% says he did absolutely nothing. Like I said-our justice is not perfect but a trial IS the only forum both sides get to hash things out and some facts either way may come out that reinforces or changes your mind about what you initially thought.

 

[Sekhemu]

Yaphet R. Kelly was brought up on multiple child pornography and molestation charges. Not only that it's been well documented that he's payed of a number of under age girls to stop them from going to the authorities. The point is nobody is supporting the other men you mention in your reply like they do R. Kelly. We need to stop treating these sexual predators with kid gloves. At least Mike Tyson had to go to prison for what was essentially her word agains his.