Director/film maker, Ava DuVernay has joined forces with women of colour
to declare support for #MuteRKelly, an online call to action demanding
that Live Nation and Sony Music drop singer R. Kelly from his recording
contract and cancel his tour dates.
Other black women celebrities such as Lena Waithe and Shonda Rimes are
also joining the cause, according to a statement released on April 30.
In 2000, R. Kelly was accused of statutory rape and numerous. The
accusations continued in the years after. Most recently, reports
surfaced of Kelly running a "sex cult", with young girls, some of them
underage, held against their will, brainwashed and controlled by the
singer.
Most of R. Kelly's victims are blackwomen and they never got justice
till date. But DuVernay and other women of color are now saying #TimesUp
for R. Kelly.
These are what these women had to say:
Finally, calls to investigate Kelly and bring him to justice for his
sexual misconduct appear to be sticking. The singer was recently
dropped by his publicist, lawyer, and assistant. Slowly people are
distancing themselves, and DuVernay and other women of color are pushing
that further.
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