I Didn't Believe He Could Fly

Once again the sexual victimization of a black woman at the hands of a black man has been dismissed...not to mention ignored and joked about. Last week a jury in Chicago acquitted R&B singer, R Kelly of his charges involving child porn. Yes there is that infamous tape (no, I haven't seen it - though I've been offered) and yes there is his history of liking young women. However, a jury of his peers in his hometown did not find enough evidence to convict Kelly of any wrongdoing. Wow, wow and wow.

I told RB that the smartest thing Tawana Brawley did back in the day was to claim white men as her attackers not black men. You can best believe there is no way Al Sharpton would have holed her butt up in a church on a story that brothers raped her. Yeah - the child lied, yeah she went through a whole lot (understandable if you know the wrath of black parents when missing curvew) in concocting such an incredulous story - but politically she knew that in order to get black folk to buy her story she had to make her attackers white. That says a lot about a lot.