I'm concerned about young girls everywhere watching this stuff, hearing comments like this that incentivizes this behavior, and follows in their footsteps. We just got off calling Drake a pedo. Millie Bobby Brown and Billie Eillish were in junior high when this was happening, and we were sweeping shit under the rug then. Imagine if a tape came out of someone their age getting the brakes beat off of them. We joked about Raz B in the 2000s... over 15 years later we're questioning the validity of Lil Rod's testimony. I'm not even gonna speak on Afrika Bambatta... Hassan Campbell moves like a rape victim, I don't need a videotape to know something happened to him. This should have been a non issue after Ike Turner. I'm not a woman, I'm not gonna speak on solutions for women on this issue. But as men, when are we gonna hold ourselves accountable for validating that system of abuse with indifference and apathy? How are we gonna teach young boys to not be the next Drake when we can't even properly place accountability on the niggas that groomed him? This ain't about celebrities, fuck celebrities. This is about the responsibility we abandoned a long time ago because we were able to get away with it.
Have you ever considered your sympathy for this shit influences people to join?
If people are unable to discern when they are exploiting themselves and putting themselves at the mercy of a system and they have examples of people being rewarded for their gullibility with sympathy and attention, then they are just going to keep doing it.
They take your sympathy and attention and turn it into clicks, views, thinkpieces and money.
There ain't that many people in the entertainment industry.
Give your sympathy and attention and time to regular everyday people that struggle with everyday life.
Black folks waste too much of their goodwill towards celebrity news and gossip.
You want your young Black girls and boys to avoid being a Drake or a Cassie, teach them to hate celebrities.