The crew breaks down what happened with R. Kelly then and now, how the Black community reacted to it, and how certain celebrities "get away with it".
Show Notes
The Trial of Robert Kelly - S01/E02
*Note: We had a few audio issues with the recordings on this episode. I tried my best to get that all sorted and levelled. Future episodes should be cleaner. Thanks for understanding. - Dean (the producer)
Pre-Show:
- Greetings
- Lynxi's recording live from the closet. And singing!
- Older men "dating" minors.
- Jumping the gun
- New show logo
Episode:
- Synopsis:
- IMDB Synopsis: Huey disagrees with Riley - and apparently most Blacks - regarding the R. Kelly case.
- Our Synopsis: The first time R. Kelly faced trial and how the people of Woodcrest, with their varied points of view, reacted to what was happening.
- How the show pulls real-life events.
- How creepy R. Kelly was.
- Pretending to be R. Kelly's personal assistant.
- How ignored the R. Kelly story was by non-melanated people.
- Entertainers who've gotten away with it.
- Roman Polanski
- Harvey Weinstein
- Bill Cosby
- Woody Allen
- How the media do not even try to understand Black (pop)culture.
- Entertainment ignorance
- Stereotyping
- How the media is quick to push salacious information.
- Access to information has not necessarily made people any smarter.
- There was actually a tape. The information surfaced about it before he was about to perform at the opening ceremonies of the 2002 Olympics.
- Trapped in the Closet.
- Aaron McGruder is a psychic.
- Bobby and Whitney, Kobe, Tiger Woods....
- Getting into arguments about Kobe.
- Black community not wanting to give another one of "theirs" over the system.
- Systemic racism.
- Two different systems of justice.
- Separating the actor's acting vs. their personal life.
- Being Black in society and social media.
- Uppity: Intelligence revered vs. ignored
- Other Black "Ruckus" people.
- Choosing to assimilate to white society.
- All of these systems were built off of white supremacy.
(Stupid) White People Questions:
- “What do you mean there’s no such thing as “reverse racism”? I struggle with it all the time!”
- Racism is a system that was invented by the powerful (in America, white people). Black folks have no way to reverse that system.
- The extinction of "Karen".
- White people don't understand racism as a power structure.
- White privilege
- The idea of reverse racism only seems to crop up in places where white supremacy has been challenged/diminished.
- Have a “Stupid White People Question” you want to leave us?
Post Show Info:
Trivia:
- The three well-dressed men out in front of the court were:
- Tony Jones
- American activist, television producer, writer, educator and filmmaker
- Hosted Tony Brown’s Journal (1968–2008; original name Black Journal until 1977), the longest-running Black news program in television history.
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- Cornell West
- American philosopher, political activist, social critic, author, and public intellectual.
- Wrote the book Race Matters. he book analyzes moral authority and racial debates concerning skin color in the United States. The book questions matters of economics and politics, as well as ethical issues and spirituality, and also addresses the crisis in black American leadership.
- Dick Gregory
- American comedian, civil rights and vegetarian activist, and conspiracy theorist.
- Extremely active in the civil rights movement in the 60s. He was also a devout feminist and worked with the feminist leaders of the 70s on the ERA.
Show Music:
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