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I’M NOT OKAY WITH CHRIS BROWN PERFORMING AT THE GRAMMYS AND I’M NOT SURE WHY YOU ARE

This is a wonderful article. If you’re going to glaze over and say “tl;dr”, here are some of the highlights:

I’m frustrated that the mainstream media is covering this story…as though some rich and powerful old white men in the music business have not just issued an enormous ‘f**k you’ to every woman who has been, is or will be on the receiving end of domestic violence…

Bloggers and their commentators flocked to Chris Brown’s defense in droves. It was a full-blown tearing-down of female self-worth, an assault on any progress women have made in this country in the past 200 years, and the mainstream media ignored it….
The message we sent to young women was unmistakable: You are powerless. You are worthless. You will be a victim, and that will be okay with us.

On June 8, 2010, Brown was forced to cancel his tour dates in the UK when the British Home Office refused to grant him a work visa on the grounds of “being guilty of a serious criminal offence”….

And, this week, Grammy producers confirmed that Chris Brown will be performing on Sunday’s show.

“We’re glad to have him back,” said executive producer Ken Ehrlich. “I think people deserve a second chance, you know. If you’ll note, he has not been on the Grammys for the past few years and it may have taken us a while to kind of get over the fact that we were the victim of what happened.”

Read that quote again. Think hard about what is being said….The Grammys think that they were the victim of Chris Brown hitting Rihanna in the face. The Grammys. Think. That they. Were the victim. Of Chris Brown. Hitting. Rihanna. In the face…

(The US justice system has Chris Brown on probation through 2014. It was nice of the Grammys to let him off a couple years early for ~~high record sales~~ good behavior.)
And my suspicion is that Rihanna has no interest in being a poster child for victims of domestic violence…She didn’t ask… for any of it – and she’s under no obligation to speak out about it.

But someone has to…
What if Chris Brown had hit your sister that night? Or your daughter? (What if Chris Brown had hit Taylor Swift that night?)