The Marvelous Margin of the Misunderstood Martian.

25th May 2013

Link reblogged from ❀ Zaria ❀ with 493 notes

I hate like fuck that R. Kelly is still so celebrated →

sonofbaldwin:

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karnythia:

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tashabilities:

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tashabilities:

But then again, he only victimized BLACK girls. 

They don’t have innocence worth protecting from grown ass men, no.

This nigga should be under a jail, but the fact that he still gets to have a career says SO MUCH about how little Black people and society in general value Black female personhood.

I do not understand why that dude is not shunned to the depths of loathing

one time I was shopping with my grandma and her best friend and the bfs daughter. we were in the daughter’s car and Michael Jackson’s pyt came on the radio. she was like oh this takes on a whole new level (this was a couple years after the second trial). and I was like well I guess you’ll stop listening step in the name of love then? but of course his victims were black girls so you don’t care.

And I don’t get how there are Black people who helped white folks vilify Michael Jackson, right? 

Negroes BELIEVED that my hero was molesting children, when the FBI had a file on him FOR YEARS and found NOTHING!

All them cases were motherfuckers trying to extort The Kang, 

But these n-words KNOW that R. Kelly was messing with underage girls, and they still bump his shit!

i read that Robert used to cruise around chicago high schools looking to pick up girls

It was so bad that most of us knew what places to avoid when he was in town. The McDonald’s in Hyde Park, the Rock & Roll McDonald’s downtown, a couple of burger spots on the West Side…like this list is so long because he would post up after school at a place where teens hung out and try to pick up girls. And if you were around long enough you could usually spot the recycled game. Everyone was so pretty they could be in a video, so smart they had no business hanging out with kids, & so grown he knew they were ready to spend time with  a real man. How do I know? He hit on me & my friends twice. Mind you, he was only interest when we were clearly underage. 

Yep.

Same here.

But everybody is so thirsty to defend his ass, when he’s nothing but a predator.

The absolute worst is the fact that we’re all supposed to pretend that R. Kelly wasn’t in that video doing what we ALL saw him do. No. People—and here’s the kicker: ESPECIALLY BLACK PEOPLE—find all manner of excuses and explanations and “reasons” to absolve R. Kelly and blame the girl (“Well, where was her mother??” is a common, overused, and misogynistic piece of bullshit that rape-complicit people use to grant rapists and molesters immunity). “They lying because they want his money!” is another one we use so often to absolve ourselves of any guilt associated with our perpetual support of rapists.

Celebrity is a grand illusion. It’s greatest ability is the power of delusion. But it also reveals things about us: The fact that we deny rape and molestation victims their stories and experiences because we put our ass-shaking and vicarious fame fantasies above all else.

We ain’t innocent. We indicted.

Source: tashabilities