Sexism on Trial

I have very mixed feeling about this. For one the girl was raped because on a paper (a law created by white men... not saying it's right or wrong) says that sex with someone that age is illegal. I dont condone it but i am not going to sit here and say that girl was abused as the article and some of you are saying. Sorry I am going to call it like I see it.....it doesn't make it righ but she knew what she was doing. So I don't feel sorry for her or shall I say I don't look at her as a rape victim. Okay in spite of my last statement I don't see how African American women can support R-Kelly in the way that they have and did. He is another story....unlike the girl (who I don't feel sorry for in the slightest) R-Kelly was fully aware of what he was doing and knew what he was doing was wrong. For me this is simple and warrants nothing more than a little common sense. These young girls are hot in the a$$...no direction...living a fantasy life that is glamorized on t.v. and I am talk about not just black girls, but white, latino and otherwise. As men (especially African American) men we have a responsiblity to nuture and educate our younger generation. We discipline our children more than any nationality in the US (yet our kids are the ones going to jail...dropping out of school...dying in the streets) doesn't that seem odd to anybody ....Think about it....We have to stick together because the system is built on decomposing (yes decomposing) because it's a process of rotting away everything we were initially taught as young children.......Think About it..............

This is silly, I bet most black women who read this article, dismissed it. 12 women may have supported R Kelly, yet we are all being grouped collectively, foolish. I stopped listening to, dancing to and buying R Kelly music when this story first broke. He is talented, but he is not above the law, whether moral or judicial. He will have to answer for his behaviour eventually, maybe not now, but soon he will.

It's good to see these issues finally being addressed. For too long, the Black Community has forsaken Black Women. In some communities, this problem is more prevalant than White-on-Black Racism.
While we're at it, let us remember the double standards that exist in the Black Community toward Black Women. Some of these are the Black Community's stance on Black Female interracial relationships, their expectaions of men, and how Black Women are treated in comparison to women of other nationalities by the Black Community.
I'm called "high maintenance" for wanting flowers on holidays. I've been expected to sleep with Black Men in the workplace because "he's a good man with an honest job" and "I should be lucky.." there aren't many of those.." This is an attitude that you don't see among the other races of people. We are the only ones who are regarded so lowly!
It's is even clear to me when I watch movies that Black Women have been "phased out" and yet I don't see the Black Male actors or Black Consumers challenging this!
I often feel that there is no place for us in our own community.
Our race will NEVER thrive as a whole until Black Women are given the value that is deserved us..

so, would it have been better if there were white or chinese women instead???

Funny....
I saw more BLACK MEN making pro- R.KElly comments than black women.
The only black women I heard supporting R. Kelly were the slightly "ghetto" kinds. It was black men, on the other hand, who filled the chat boards with O.J. and Michael Jackson conspiracy theaories about R. Kelly.
I think it is disgusting that some black women value black males so much that they support them when they are pedophiles, murders, drug dealers.....but I think this article may be another example of trying to blame BLACK WOMEN for the behavior of BLACK MEN.

i wonder the outcome if R. Kelly was white. Everybody would jump on the bandwagon to make sure that justice was served. As for the fans, it's easy to cheer until it's their daughter, Do i think that R. Kelly is talented, of course but the truth is this: R.Kelly is a Pedophile! PERIOD! He doesn't need cheers, he needs counseling, or better yet, cast out those demons

i wonder what would have been the outcome if R.Kelly was white. It is easy for women to cheer about his acquittal until it's their daughter or someone close to them. The problem is that as black people, we are afraid to call it as it is. Good, bad or, indifferent. R. Kelly has i problem. period! Do i think he is talented, of course, but nevertheless. He has demons that he needs cast out of his life.

Seems Obama's comments hit home even more .... we need to clean house and make everyone accountable for their actions.

Your headline is all wrong... I am not sure who supports this man, but I can tell you no one I know does. A matter of fact I wipe that man from my playlist for life. As well as my daughters.

I am strongly against any man sexual abusing a black woman or any woman. But when we have our own families not trying to make and keep our black families together and continue to seperate them by teaching ignorance of how they treat their women, it really depreciate the respect and dignity of black women/any woman. Women need to learn not to degrade themselves, just because... We as families got to unite together to make a difference for ourselves. Where there isn't love - give love, no hope - give hope, encourage each other as we look upon one another to not fear who you are and love the bodies GOD has given us and let no one use you no matter what fame of fortune they may have. Remeber you are priceless - you can't be brought. Society does just what they want, R. Kelly is a victim of his own circumstances - he needs help, it dosen't matter if he is declared a free man.

I understand why people are angry, but where was all the anger when R. Kelley was married to Aliyah? Double standard perhaps. Wasn't she underage?

I am an African-American women and I DO NOT support R. Kelly. It is a disgrace that he did not go to jail. I think his money bought his freedom

I am a African-American women and I DO NOT Support R. Kelly. Its a disgrace that he did not get jail time. I think his money bought his freedom.

Let's not be superficial here, are you saying that black women and black people are lacking in intellectual depth? Here you have a trial in a system (created not by blacks but by whites) which has a history of prejudice. Being black in America I can speak to the fact that many of my brethren have been incarcerated for crimes they didn't commit, stopped not for violating the motor vehicle laws, but halted because of their skin color. It is your system that says that an individual is innocent until proven guilty and it is your system that speaks to society and says that if he/she is found not guilty then they are innocent. However when the tables are turned regardless of whatever realities are in place or germinate from the crime. Blacks are viewed as lucky; "how did that N***a get off"? Funny isn't it.

I am sick and tired of the news media exaggerating numbers. Why wasn't a specific percentage (number) given. What is so many? I agree with most people on this blog, I was not happy to see R. Kelly not do time, he is a disgrace to the Black community. Maybe if so many Black men were not in jail for crimes they didn't commit, people wouldn't react the way they do. It's surprising that the media never advertises that more White men are in jail for sexual crimes than Black. Most Black men are there because of unfair drug laws. But it's amazing how the media always want to protray Black men as sex offenders and uncontrolled animals. Those of you Black people who are intelligent enough to read and pick up a book buy "Don't Believe the Hype.