Protesting accused pedophile R. Kelly
I first wrote about R&B thug R. Kelly in 2003, when he was released on bail after being charged with 21 counts of statutory rape and child pornography. The wheels of justice grind slowly. Four years later, accused pedophile R. Kelly is still roaming around free on a new concert tour–but he has yet to face the music in court on those criminal charges.
Fortunately, some black activists in Los Angeles are sick of seeing R. Kelly skate. They’re protesting his show tonight in southern California:
Jasmyne Cannick and other black activists plan to station themselves across the street from the Forum on Friday to protest a concert that night by R. Kelly, the R&B superstar and celebrity defendant, but Cannick is already resigned to the fact that her picket line will be outnumbered by scalpers.
“It’s like pulling teeth to get people to talk about this,” Cannick said. “It’s a challenge to get the black community to even discuss it. . . . They’re acting like he doesn’t have 14 counts of child pornography against him. . . . We’re all acting like we don’t have daughters and nieces and little sisters.”
…Kelly was caught up in a tempest in 2002 when a videotape that purportedly showed him engaging in sex acts with a girl in her early teens opened the door to criminal charges and lawsuits from females who claimed they were also his underage sex partners. Even before that, Kelly had a reputation for sexual contact with female minors — not only did he write the 1994 hit “Age Ain’t Nothing but a Number” for the late singer Aaliyah, it was revealed later that he married her when she was 15 and he was 27.
The criminal case is still winding through the courts after repeated delays, but Kelly’s career has not only endured, it has thrived. In 2002-2003, he had one of his biggest hits ever, “Ignition (Remix),” which kicked off a run of successful years. This year, “Double Up” became the fifth R. Kelly album to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, and he has just been nominated for two Grammys. As McDavid said: “He’s at the top of his game.”
On Tuesday, a group of protesters gathered at the Forum to call on the venue’s owner, the Faithful Central Bible Church, to call off the show.
Cannick’s warning: “People really need to wake up.”
She has a blog here and she writes about the protest tonight:
The protest is going down this evening. Tell your boss early you need to be out by 4 p.m. cause you got a date with a pedophile and 18,000 people who are living in denial about their addiction. Bring ya momma, ya momma’s momma, your woman, your man, your woman child, and your man child. L.A., unlike the 17 other cities Kells visited is not asleep on him. Note of caution: pile on the layers cause’ it ain’t gonna be warm out there.
THE FORUM
3900 Manchester Blvd.
Inglewood, CAWe’ll be standing on the corner of Prarie and Manchester and I doubt you’ll be able to miss us.
More power to her.
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“It’s a challenge to get the black community to even discuss it. . . …”
Well, when they do…Mr. Karenga, the rapist-founder of the faux-festival Kwanzaa is next.
Don’t you understand? This is just their culture! Along with dog-fighting, overt racism, and drug use, this is just who they are. You should be more sensitive to gangsta culture. They’re just keepin’ it real, you know.
Protesting at the Forum? in Inglewatts? I hope there’s survivors. not a wise venue to attend.
Aj,
Isn’t that where CourtTV gets most of its bang bang footage?
Good lawyer knows that the case is strong so he delays the trial to keep his client making money and collecting his fee. Client, (rapist) is happy but in the end, justice will hopefully be served.
Not sure fours, last time I was there, 13 years ago, the Great One was on the ice.
He didn’t just have sex with that little girl, he was doing incredibly perverse acts with her. There were acts that can not even be mentioned here…at least not by me. i am sure some of the trolls are more loose with their morals that they can mention it on your blog, but not this injun.
He even had the audacity to video tape it so he could show his friends and enjoy it later. that is where some of the counts of child porn comes from. What was the reaction to this? Why, it was similar to Michael Jackson. Deny, deny, deny. It was obviously nothing more than a police conspiricy to keep the brother down. They saw a black man that was doing good and making money, so they set him up. Then, there were the little girls who were throwing themselves at him at future concerts that occurred after this became public. That’s right, women and men actually allowed their daughters to go to his concerts.
Had this occurred to a COuntry and Western star, he would have been treated as a leper. There would not have been a single child at his shows. Heck, let’s look at what happened to Jerry Lee Lewis? And HE MARRIED THE GIRL!
The last I heard, he was claiming that the person in the videos wasn’t even him. However, apparently from this story, that is no longer the case. I suppose it is now cool to be him and even cooler to go ahead and rape young girls.
While Liberals are all up in arms about a Republican member of the Legislature who may or may not have been cruising for a date in the airport men’s room, and while they are constantly making jokes about and will never let it rest about the Catholic Church and the fact that they just now discovered that the men that make up the clergy of the Catholic Church are indeed human and that there is no more or less sexual misconduct within the Catholic Church than any other major religion, they do not seem to have any problem what-so-ever with this “Soul” singer/”Rap” star or whatever the hell he is, completely and totally destroying and abolishing forever the youth and innocence of young girls to satisfy his disgusting and vile sickness and lust for underage girls.
Where are all the “leaders” of the Liberal movements? Where are all the Operahs? Where is Hill-Dawg? Obama? Why hasn’t Edwards heard the cries of torture in the night while he slept? the fact that this creep has even been allowed to be nominated for grammys is a way of Liberals in the Entertainment Industry…all of them…of telling him, “Hey, way to go…you keep on doing what you are doing. We fully support your right to play with those smooth young hairless girls. As long as you make us money, we’ll even bring them over to your house for you.”
Yup, you Liberals with your causes. You are all talk. Yet when there is something truly bad oging on, you just plain ignore it. You want everyone else to do something about the bad things, yet you won’t do anything about it yourselves. Why? Because that would mean you would have to stop doing the bad things, and we can’t have that now, can we?
I had no idea the retard R. Kelly was still out. Amazing, and horrible at the same time. So why don’t the officials put their foot down on this?
It occurs to me, parents were up in arms about the Santa panties, and yet R. Kelly walks the streets with impunity, after using and abusing the kinds of girls who would be wearing these underwear. I’m not sure what that means, but it does make a person wonder what is going on in parents’ heads these days, if anything.
This is California folks. The pedophiles, ie: Americans for Creeps Letches and the Unnatural (or,a.c.l.u.), run this place as they are thouroughly entrenched in the legislature, and where they aren’t, they’re protected by the silence of people who don’t want to be thought of as “mean”. Old r smelly fits right in. You couldn’t find 10 blacks (or 10 anythings) in my neck of the woods that would stand up to him, but consider this a prayer for those brave folks in Engleshnook. They’re going to need it,
God bless their hearts, amen.
Why aren’t Al and Jessie on a ranting rampage about this.. oh sorry - he’s black.
RetFireman - you ask a great question. Where’s Oprah?
Another thing why are liberlas not saying a thing about this but they were all over the catholic church, but they love the folsom street fair.Do they not see how stupid they really really look to normal people. PLEASE…
Perhaps Oprah is siding with NOW in that, “this is their culture and we don’t want
to intrude”. This is what Bill Cozby and other like minded (moral ) blacks are
talking about and trying to get across to the black community. They’re trying to
get the blacks to straighten up and realize that they are their own worst enemies.
Devolution happening before our very eyes. Don’t blink.
Where’s the NAACP? I’m talking about the Advancement part here. I don’t see any “advancement” here.
HE says that “age ain’t nothin’ but a number” How’s this for a number 30 to life!
Oprah invited R. Kelly to the Chicago premiere of The Color Purple musical in May.
Oh come on now. He’s an undocumented pervert. Just doing the things that non sexual deviants refuse to do.
Well,as someone once said: “Put the boy in the joint,where dey make him dey bitch”
Condi, Powell, Keyes, Thomas and many others are called “Uncle Toms”. They are mocked, made fun of. They are told that they have “Sold Out” to the white man, that they have “betrayed” their race. They have turned their backs on their people. There are cartoons made that would make the “Step ‘n’ Fetch” cartoons of the early 20th century appear tame as a way to shame them, and they are not even drawn by black artists. The “Boondocks” comic strip and cartoon on “Adult Swim” on the Cartoon Network is famous for mocking Clarence Thomas and Condoleeza Rice especially. this is a show and strip that uses the “N” word as often as it uses the word “The”.
And what did they do to deserve this derision? they became educated. They became wealthy and successful. But most of all, and most sinful, they became Republicans and Conservatives. This is what bought them a lifetime of Hell in the eyes of the tolerant Liberals who want nothing but peace and love and a “Rainbow Coalition”.
However, if you make what is commonl referred to these days as “music” using the most heinous terms to describe women and sexual acts commited on them as well as violence towards them in order to obtain said sexual acts, and in your spare time commit actual sexual acts with children that are not even old enough to drive a car, let alone see over a steering wheel, or if you and several of your “home boys” decide to take the number 23 bus downtown to get your freak on and beat the white off the a** of the nearest “cracka” that happens to look at you sideways…well then you are just “keepin it real” and “all is good in the hood”
This is what is passing for Liberalism in the Multi-Cultural Universe kids. Instead of making sure that the inner City youth accept the responsibility of making the best of what God has given them…their brains and talents, they are fed crap about how they will never be able to do better than what they got so why bother, and if you do anything with your life, you are selling out. You are made to feel embarrassed. Like an earlier poster said about his brother who came by and he was good enough when he needed something but when he didn’t, he derided him constantly, where did he get that from?
That is where the R.Kelly people get it from. They do not get punished. They are rewarded. They are “Keeping it Real”
After four years of dodging the slammer, Kelly must believe he can fly.
I’m not sure the legal system is on our side given the corruption of many lawyers & their judge friends. I’ve a case pending over a years for a guy driving 7th DUI and declared Habitual Motor Offender in TN. He should have been in jail already when I caught him. Lawyer keeps delaying it to run out the statute of limitations on the DUI’s so it will be a lessor offense. The DA is going along with it! Sometimes I think the wild west had a better idea in many cases.
RetFireman
“the fact that this creep has even been allowed to be nominated for grammys ”
One of the tenants of the communist manifesto is to promote mediocrity to the highest level as the creative population is made invisible & crushed….to understand how this tenant has been applied one need only observe the dying/dead Music Industry. It is owned & run by uber-left-socialist freaks who have completely bastardized the real evolution & history of music.
Consider how the Communist party attempted to dictate & control the music of Dimitri Shostakovich.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Shostakovich
It’s appalling R. Kelly has gotten away with this for so long. He didn’t even need to run off to France like Roman Polanski did.
It’s even more appalling that people buy his music and attend his shows.
#13 alohaguy said:
I know that answer. Oprah’s been too busy helping rapstar ‘Nelly’ promote his ‘Apple Bottom Jeans’ on her show. (For the uninformed, ‘Apple Bottom Jeans’ are cut and designed to accentuate the female African-American buttocks, so that they meet the standards of ‘hip-hop’ aficionados and other assorted urban male “players” who love to watch a “big, juicy a$$.”)
Oprah has also been too busy, inviting “singer” Beyonce onto her program to help show her audience how to execute the “booty shake.” (For the uninformed, the “booty shake” is when Beyonce dramatically protrudes her female, African-American buttocks and shakes it in a sexually spastic fashion, in the hope that those aforementioned ‘hip-hop’ aficionados, and other assorted urban male “players” will approvingly shout, “shake that a$$ girl,” or “I’d hit that,” or “I’d smack that a$$, girl!”
No, I believe that Oprah is too busy promoting the sexual, ‘hip hop’ culture of Nelly and Beyonce to be speaking out against the sexual transgressions of the R. Kelly ‘hip hop’ culture.
If you ask me, this is a crying shame, because a visible leader like Oprah could be doing a lot more to counter the criminally and sexually overcharged culture of hip hop “music” today. At the very least, her voice could be a strong weapon against those existing racists and bigots who still believe that black culture is inferior because it promotes violence, lawlessness and the sexual degradation of women.
Michael Jackson was far, far worse than R. Kelly. At least R. Kelly was engaging in heterosexual activity. Jackson was doing something else far worse than anything Kelly may have done. Jackson was manipulating children by bringing them onto to his own palace replete with ferris wheels and animals and other stuff young boys like. Then he would buy them and their parents things until the kids were financially and psychologically in hock to him and they could not escape him. He even apparently gave the young boys some kind of juice to get them woozy. In contrast, at least Kelly’s subjects were older. Kelly apparently had no interest in having a relationship with them. It was a one night stand and then outta here. Neither Jackson or Kelly is a boy scout. But Jackson is far, far worse. Kelly is an oaf. Jackson is a creep.