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5 Good Things from Surviving R. Kelly
A day of reckoning has finally arrived for one Robert Kelly. Once considered a king of R&B, the singer’s past of over 20 years of sexually abusing underage girls has been outed by the recent Lifetime docu-series, Surviving R. Kelly.
Social media and the blogosphere have lit up like Christmas trees with think pieces, and a flood of opinions from Kelly sentimentalists to people like me who have been saying R Kelly has always been a problem.
But this discussion we are about to have is not about Robert Kelly himself, or even a deeper view of the Lifetime docuseries that outed his behavior. It’s not even about the lives that have been impacted by the repulsive behaviors of R Kelly or the industry that covered its eyes while it was going on.
Today, I want to shed light on different elements we see emerging. Positive ones. That’s right, there are good, even great elements of the R Kelly discussion that are already helping and blessing so many discussions. Here are 5 of those elements:
These stories are FINALLY coming out
It took over 20 years but the stories are finally emerging. Many of us (i.e. ME) have been hollering from the rooftops about the creepy nature of R Kelly and his music.
- He called himself the Pied Piper of R&B (and the pied piper in story tales…
