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Going to say this and be done with it.
For all the Black men #onhere that find themselves badgering Black women like Oprah for allegedly not targeting white men enough for sexual abuse via #MeToo...have you ever asked yourselves why aren't you doing the same for your own group?
For all the Black men #onhere that find themselves badgering Black women like Oprah for allegedly not targeting white men enough for sexual abuse via #MeToo...have you ever asked yourselves why aren't you doing the same for your own group?
Like it is so damn easy to keep trying to tell Black women what to do when it comes to an issue that is impacting them by both Black and white men...but for some reason, there are men in our community who are trying so hard to act like sexual abuse is a racial dispute. It's not.
Rather than waste your energy on cherry-picking Black women who you feel should be only talking about white men who sexually abuse...why aren't you slapping yourself upside the head on how dumb you sound that you have chosen to make this issue a false sense of racial justice.
This year’s list of #TheRoot100 honorees is a reminder of the beauty and brilliance of blackness, at a time when the political and cultural landscape has grown even more hostile to the idea of black achievement! trib.al/dCxtJMy 
No. 100: Elizabeth Lindsey (@elindse1)
Lindsey is the executive director of Byte Back, an organization that trains underrepresented communities in tech-sector careers: trib.al/2STc2Br
Lindsey is the executive director of Byte Back, an organization that trains underrepresented communities in tech-sector careers: trib.al/2STc2Br
No. 99: Brooke Obie (@BrookeObie)
The managing editor of black film and TV site @shadowandact sparked a national conversation about Green Book, another in a long line of films that centered whiteness at the expense of compelling black stories: trib.al/rtf4FPh
The managing editor of black film and TV site @shadowandact sparked a national conversation about Green Book, another in a long line of films that centered whiteness at the expense of compelling black stories: trib.al/rtf4FPh
We didn't watch the R. Kelly interview. Giving abusers the platform to victimize themselves instead of holding themselves accountable for their actions further traumatizes survivors, especially those that they harmed. When we say #MuteRKelly, that means in every possible way.
#MeToo and #MuteRKelly, both created by Black women, have been around for years to bring awareness to violence that Black women and girls experience. Black women have been organizing around R. Kelly's mental, verbal, and physical abuse against Black women and girls specifally.
These movement are beyond a hashtag. Many have organized to hold perpetrators accountable and make sure that survivors are given the necessary resources to heal from trauma. As @TaranaBurke stated, "It’s not just a moment, it's a movement."
Sorry, but a @TMZ article that merely claims @Chicago_Police spoke to Azriel Clary and Joycelyn Savage (with zero evidence backing up the reporting) isn’t enough for me. I need to see pictures and video of those two before I stop worrying about them.
#SurvivingRKelly
#muteRKelly
#SurvivingRKelly
#muteRKelly
In #SurvivingRKelly, @Chicago_Police were accused of having insiders that help R. Kelly. @TMZ also appears to be reporting in a way that favors R. Kelly. How are we to be sure Azriel Clary and Joycelyn Savage are okay based on hearsay from R. Kelly’s camp alone? We need evidence.
I understand Azriel Clary may not want to see to her family. I can live with that. But can we see a video of her saying it herself? Why hasn’t she been seen in any videos or pictures since 2016-2017? Why wasn’t she at R. Kelly’s b-day party? Why does it seem like she’s missing?
1 // (#rkelly #SurvivingRKelly)
To @RKelly,
When I was in high school I played your music so much that my discman wore down my copy of TP-2.com. I thought "I Wish" was the most beautiful song in the world.
To @RKelly,
When I was in high school I played your music so much that my discman wore down my copy of TP-2.com. I thought "I Wish" was the most beautiful song in the world.
2 // (#rkelly #SurvivingRKelly)
I haven't listened to your music since your trial but I want you to know that you've deeply disappointed the teenager in me, and disgusted the adult in me.
I haven't listened to your music since your trial but I want you to know that you've deeply disappointed the teenager in me, and disgusted the adult in me.
3 // (#rkelly #SurvivingRKelly)
Your music once had the power to heal, but instead of being our generation's Marvin Gaye you chose to degrade and damage young girls. You are a coward of the highest order, and I will no longer sit idly while you ruin families in the name of music.
Your music once had the power to heal, but instead of being our generation's Marvin Gaye you chose to degrade and damage young girls. You are a coward of the highest order, and I will no longer sit idly while you ruin families in the name of music.
I’m worried about Azriel Clary. Since #SurvivingRKelly aired, her YouTube (not updated since 2015) gets a new upload of an old video (source: ). Now TMZ is showing footage of her at an R. Kelly concert in 2016 (amp.tmz.com/2019/01/08/r-k…).
Where is she now?
Where is she now?
If Azriel Clary is still alive, why aren’t there any photos or videos of her taken after 2016?
Today is @rkelly’s 50th b-day & he is walking free while a teen he allegedly raped & kidnapped continues to go missing.
Why is he getting away with this?
#SurvivingRKelly
#MuteRKelly
Today is @rkelly’s 50th b-day & he is walking free while a teen he allegedly raped & kidnapped continues to go missing.
Why is he getting away with this?
#SurvivingRKelly
#MuteRKelly
Sharing footage of Azriel Clary in the past is not going to stop people from asking about her whereabouts in the present, @rkelly and @TMZ.
Where is Azriel Clary?
#SurvivingRKelly
#muteRKelly
Where is Azriel Clary?
#SurvivingRKelly
#muteRKelly
Wow, that last #thread really took off. Let’s try another. I want to think with folks about how we can talk about #SurvivingRKelly outside the logic of the prison industrial complex.
Many of the people who responded to my last thread engaged in carceral logics saying some variation on “his ass should rot in jail” if not calls for his death. Are there other ways we can imagine justice, accountability and healing?
Prison abolitionist Mariame Kaba has said, as ppl raised w/ carceral logics it’s hard for us to imagine or desire alternatives. The #prisonindustrialcomplex has limited how we think about justice—even though other nations do things differently.
Thread for my white #feminist friends (of all genders)
Content: Sexual violence, racism
There is a racial divide on social media regarding #SurvivingRKelly
Content: Sexual violence, racism
There is a racial divide on social media regarding #SurvivingRKelly
Most black folks I know have posted about the docuseries in the last few days (thankfully black people in my networks are expressing support of the victims of sexual abuse & coercion though their posts suggest to me that is not the case with their entire friends network)
In contrast, nearly all white folks I know are not even acknowledging the docuseries, the #RKelly conversation, nothing. This divide/contrast reminds me that white people are not required to know what’s happening to and among black folks.
It’s time for #SurvivingRKelly NOW on @lifetimetv. Retweet if you’re watching!
Shouts to @johnlegend @TaranaBurke @JamilahLemieux @Karnythia @thewayoftheid @nelsongeorge @Toure and, most importantly, all of the survivors for taking part in the #SurvivingRKelly docuseries. It’s on NOW on @lifetimetv!
What I appreciate about this @lifetimetv docuseries is that they’re not coming hard at R Kelly from jump. They’re really providing context, including that the Kelly brothers were abused as children. #SurvingRKelly
