It is and actually I believe this gayle push back is because of the MJ situation. I think a lot if folks were pissed about MJ and were ready to lash out as soon as folks fukked with kobe.
Kats (of all races and genders) are tired of the media trying to throw superstar black folks under the bus once they die. Even after they were acquitted for a crime when they were alive.
You can't have a person that is acquitted for something many years ago when they were alive. Then try to convict them for that same thing once they are dead. This isn't kelly who had new accusations...kobe and MJ didn't have new accusations this was old shyt that the media is trying to convict them on.
The fact that Oprah pulled out of that Russell documentary (for the record: I think Russell moved with a guilty conscience in response to the allegations vs. Kobe and MJ) and tried several goalpost moves (bringing in Ava to review the doc, swearing it wasn't pressure from Russell, getting other subjects of the film to blame it on MJ fans) to explain it is PROOF that she is on some snake shyt. Harpo Productions thought it was fine and good, got Sundance set up, and 20 minutes before she told the public, she let the filmmakers know she pulled out.
Everyone involved is being polite about it, except the one accuser of Russell who went public with her displeasure. And though HBO Max has picked it up, I guarantee this film is not going to have the media blitz of Leaving Neverland and all these media outlets on c00n Code the way they were.
The way it looks, Russell Simmons may not even have his Cosby moment, either.
Oprah had NO problem supporting two lyin'-ass liars or their inconsistencies before. All of a sudden, "inconsistencies" are a problem when the alleged victims are black women (in a class sympathetic according to Fauxprah standards). All the goal post moving suggests her reasons for leaving may not be what we've been told.
Oprah had nothing to say about the victims of R. Kelly. Fayle had the interview but that was way when it appeared that he finally may be held accountable for his crimes.
Kobe's charges were dismissed because the accuser forfeited her chance to hold Kobe accountable. As the Denver Post reported (and subsequently seemed to wipe from their main website), it may have been because both physical and circumstantial evidence cast a shadow of doubt on her claims. We never got a chance to hear both stories in full.
We did for MJ. The evidence acquitted him. Mind you with a conservative, mostly white jury that didn't give a fukk about no damn Michael Jackson. No one was paid off, the witnesses showed their asses and got spanked by the defense attorneys. Looked like the Donkeys getting rolled by the Seahawks in that one Super Bowl. We got two grifting-ass liars in a documentary (with a bunch of mysterious people in the background funding it) saying a dude touched them when they were kids, opened their bootyholes up and all this shyt... REGARDLESS of what the real timeline of events say, provably.
In both those cases it was a case of white folks trying to rewrite history when the outcome wasn't what they wanted and trying to cash in on it.
When Felicia Whateverthefukk just tweeted that Daily Beast article w/NO caption upon the news breaking? When Evan Rachel Wood tried to wedge that story in? People said "Nah, get the fukk outta here with that bullshyt."
Trying to bring that up when he won the Oscar flopped, so they went for the jugular once he couldn't talk back.
They want to talk about the narrative, not the truth. The truth is, you can't in good faith call Kobe a "rapist" when a trial never happened, and the evidence doesn't CONCLUSIVELY point him as a rapist. He wrote an apology letter that was ahead of its time as far as current "woke" perspective and people take that as an admission of guilt. The facts of the case don't quite exonerate Kobe, but they don't convict him either. There is reasonable doubt over him being a rapist. So this is just a case of nikkas trying to get an agenda win when the people involved can't push back. The same thing they did with MJ, only now they do this to a man who died among 9 others, including his daughter.
I love how these performative-ass nikkas can ride or die for a narrative like this (an old as time trope about black man as rapist), so that they can build a fence about what is acceptable to say or think in the public sphere, in hopes of changing attitudes about a serious social problem. but if they can't use respectability politics to keep people in line, those motherfukkers will die on the same fence and cape for elites who don't give a fukk about their funky asses unless they can be used to prop up their interests.
fukk outta here.
Nate Parker got done the same way, IMO. No one rides for Celestin, who was convicted. But Parker, who was acquitted, had to answer all those questions all because he released a fukkin' movie that was getting good buzz. He REFUSED an interview with Oprah and Gayle. Now we see why he did. His career still tanked... over something he didn't even
do. Was he a dikk after being acquitted? Sure. But you don't get to call him a "rapist" and treat him like he is, off that.
This isn't the same thing as R. Kelly, who was acquitted, but there is CONCLUSIVE proof of his crimes -- and got away with it for years until somehow, someway, the people who should have been listening to the people crying for help all of a sudden decided they were going to help.
The agenda is to bring lynching back, without the noose or the tree. An accusation = guilt. No fact finding needed.
You know who is going to primarily be at the short end of that stick.
And if for some stroke of luck you escape the noose? It'll be waiting for you after you die.
Yeah, these dudes were celebrities. But the mainstream media is not concerned with "regular people" outside of them being consumers. The movement of American society is way too much heavily seen through the filters of the elite. And thus, these are the examples we have.
From OJ on down, you can pretend you're immune from the machinations of white supremacy until you aren't.
When you aren't a celebrity? Well, you just might be fukked.
