Oprah Invites Accused Rapist to Show Premier, Media Celebrates
But one “celebrity” that was invited by Oprah to attend the opening performance should raise eyebrows and should have spawned condemnation of Oprah Winfrey for his invitation; yet, the media was strangely silent about the impropriety of the invite.
Before I go on with who the off color Color Purple guest is, a recap of just what the theme of this musical is all about is called for to speak to exactly why this particular guest should never have been invited to this premier, much less given star treatment.
The Color Purple is, at its core, a story about the rape and abuse of children by adult males. Certainly the supposed uplift of the thing is in how the young girls in the story overcome the abuse that they are put through. But, in essence, this is a misanthropic tale of how evil, evil men rape their way through a family of young black girls.
Now back to our inappropriate guest for the opening of The Color Purple, the musical.
As the sycophantic Chicago media stood with microphones in hand and cameras rolling, who was to walk out onto the red carpet but the “musician” R. Kelly. Yes, the same R. Kelly that has often and repeatedly been accused of raping teenaged, girls.
And, not a single voice was raised in the Chicago media about how inappropriate this invitation was!
ABC TV even reported the disgraced pop singer as saying, “It really inspired me to be who I am todayâ€.
Inspired him to “be” what he is today? What a child rapist?
Though not convicted as of yet, Kelly has been several times in hot water for his dalliances with under-aged girls and no one, not even Kelly, denies that he has been linked with a multitude of very young girls. So, it is astonishing that, given his troubles, Oprah Winfrey invited this ne’er-do-well to her opening. Especially given his history of sexual predation in juxtaposition with the play’s subject matter.
Disgustingly, the Chicago Sun-Times even gave R. Kelly the opportunity to plug his new album in their report of this celeb fest.
It was wholly inappropriate for this man to have been invited to this show, conviction or not. Isn’t it people like Oprah who are famous for tsk-tsking even the slightest appearance of violence against, or any mistreatment of, women — especially black women?
What do they say: even the appearance of impropriety is a serious charge? Don’t the media and the left constantly employ guilt by association by protesting the appearance of controversial conservatives at any particular venue, attempting to shut the appearance down? Constantly they find no problem protesting an Ann Coulter appearance or an appearance by a conservative religious figure, by contrast. Yet, there was R. Kelly, effulgent, all smiles and backslapping, hobnobbing with the social elites at Oprah’s show with the media lapping it up.
So, it makes one wonder just how much Oprah is against child rape if she has no problem rubbing elbows with the likes of an R. Kelly. And not just rubbing elbows by happenstance, but doing so by her own invitation.
What kind of “message” is Oprah sending to young teenaged girls with this regrettable invitation, anyway?
Could it be: Don’t let anyone rape you… unless he is famous?
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May 6th, 2007 at 6:56 am
someone give the name of one single male in our society , black or white or any color, who could say and do the things oprah says and does. nope! can’t be done. who ever believes we live in a just world……….. is stoopit.
most men would condem other men of oprahs ilk. her evil far out ways any good works she does. it speaks loudly that women worship at her alter. if the women in your life speak highly of oprah, you my friend are being had like a sucker at the local carnival. stoopit, stoopit us.
May 6th, 2007 at 8:24 am
oprah’s just shoring up the women-as victim Matrix so her feminist friends can feed like pigs at the troughs of congress…
no one gets any congressional pork accept middle class white females…
Have you ever seen hogs feeding at the troughs…the bigger hogs sqeeze out all others.. even the baby hogs….
men are blinded by women-as-victim rhetoric to the degree no- one else gets any congressional pork.. accept these funding hogs
May 6th, 2007 at 10:10 am
Sorry, but since when has being accused of something meant that a man should be treated as being guilty? And how often are men accused of violence against women these days when it is totally made up? I’ve seen statistics that show the percentage of false rape charges at almost 50%. Have you considered that rich men are much more susceptible to these types of charges for extortion purposes? And how many false rape allegations aren’t tagged as false because the accuser is better than others at fabricating the story and convincing others of their veracity, even though they are totally lying. And how often are men’s names and faces plastered all over the media the moment they are accused of something as though they are guilty, whether guilty or not, while the purported victim remains anonymous?
As much as I don’t like Oprah, I commend her for not judging this guy based on allegations. It’s a shame that more of us, especially men, can’t see the logic in the phrase, “innocent until proven guilty”.
May 6th, 2007 at 11:02 am
Even though R. Kelly is innocent until proven innocent, I remain shocked by the level of utter disregard to the charges previously brought against him. It is not a matter that he should be assumed guilty. It is the attitude of the people, particularly his female fans, who openly stated in the Sun-Times that either the girl tricked him or they really did not care whether he did it or not. That is the only instance in which I have seen a person that well known get a pass. Even Michael Jackson did not end up with a multi-platinum record following his allegations.
More than that, for Oprah to invite R. Kelly contradicts her positions on male sex offenders, female rape and the impact of those assaults. I guess she must be a fan.
May 6th, 2007 at 11:35 am
“Though not convicted as of yet,…..
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May 6th, 2007 at 11:41 am
So, CaptDMO, I am glad that you wouldn’t mind YOUR teenaged daughter visiting R. Kelly in his room because he “hasn’t been convicted”. After all, not being convicted yet means complete innocence. Right O.J.? But, since you have no idea who R.Kelly is and what he has perpetrated or the evidence against him and why he has gotten off (big money, hint) I can easily say you are uninformed, careless with the safety of our children, and unconcerned about societal mores… end transmission!
May 6th, 2007 at 12:51 pm
“So, CaptDMO, I am glad that you wouldn’t mind YOUR teenaged daughter visiting R. Kelly in his room”
When did CaptDMO say that? Is there another thread on this here? How has he been careless with other’s children?
May 6th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
He said that R. Kelly is innocent, so why SHOULDN’T he mind if his daughter goes off with such a harmless “innocent” man?
May 6th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
Warner Todd Huston said,
So, CaptDMO, I am glad that you wouldn’t mind YOUR teenaged daughter visiting R. Kelly in his room because he “hasn’t been convicted”"
Like most parents would let their teenage daughter visit any man in his room. Great piece of logic there.