Thread by @shailjapatel

Never forget how many years, how many victims, it took to bring him to trial. The entire music industry knew, and continued to aid and abet him. May this be the beginning of healing for his victims, and the beginning of consequences for every single person who enabled him.

https://twitter.com/ajplus/status/1442568893910896640

How many victims would have been saved if the music industry had listened to Black feminists any time in the past two decades?

"Our daughters are not fringe benefits for you to serve up to wounded men whose twisted artistry keeps you paid!" - @AyadeLeon

ayadeleon.wordpress.com/2013/12/04/r-k…

"R Kelly was allegedly molested by a neighbor as a child.... As someone who has worked with GenerationFive, an organization dedicated to end child sexual abuse in five generations, I recognized the cycle of abuse that had played out repeatedly." - @AyadeLeon

"I want some jail sentences for the record executives and the lawyers who drafted up those settlement agreements where young women had stiff dollar bills shoved into their mouths to buy their silence. Let the suits do some hard time for conspiracy to rape" - @AyadeLeon

"Restorative justice requires that a person accept responsibility for the harm they have caused. R. Kelly has repeatedly demonstrated through his actions that he is unrepentant and voiced that he is the victim of a racist legal system..." - @Sil_Lai thegrio.com/2021/09/30/r-k…

"Conversations need to focus on assisting his survivors in their healing, not the probability of Kelly’s redemption. We must confront and dismantle the systems that enabled him to operate with impunity for decades so that the other R. Kelly’s of the world are stopped." - @Sil_Lai