The Numbness: My Lack of Reaction to the R. Kelly Verdict
When I was alerted to the R. Kelly child pornography acquittal, by my friend and activist Moya Bailey, his music soundtracked the next few minutes. Who can forget the insidious chorus of Jay-Z's "Guilty Until Proven Innocent,"
You can't touch me, no, you can't touch me
Jigga, Kelly, not guilty
Well, beyond being a masterful singer-songwriter, producer for hire and deviant, Robert Kelly has proven himself something of a seer, which isn't much of an achievement when it comes to escaping punishment for Black on Black violence, especially violence against Black women. With little Black girls so developed and so fast, grown ass men cannot be blamed for their indulgences, for their abuses: that's what we are ingrained to think but I got to sense enough to think for myself, to consider the facts. And that reading of Black girls is all wrong, it's fabricated to other folks' ends.
Given the tragic verdict, Jill Scott's incisive statement is worth listening to again. I'd recommend it to the one unidentified juror cited in the excerpted Associated Press story below.
One juror said he just was not sure the female was who prosecutors said she was or that she was a minor -- noting her body appeared too developed.
I can't cry. I can't shed any tears. We've been too long pimped, positioned and parodied without acknowledgment.
And the struggle still continues...
Photo Credit: UPI Photo/Brian Kersey
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