4.8 • 703 Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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R Kelly is gone. We talk about him, his crimes, his victims, his illiteracy, why this still doesn’t quite prove that Black Lives Matter, and why we need to keep saying Black Lives Matter the same way we once said Black Is Beautiful.
Hosts: Danielle Moodie & Touré
Executive Producer: Adell Coleman
Senior Producer: Ryan Woodhall
Producer: Quinton Hill
Distributor: DCP Entertainment
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Democracy-ish. I'm Toray. |
0:13.4 | And I'm Danielle Moody. |
0:14.5 | And it is a long, long day, I imagine, for R. Kelly, as the reality starts to sink in, that this prison that he thought maybe it was a temporary thing is actually going to be a long-term stay. |
0:32.5 | I imagine you're looking at life. |
0:36.8 | I imagine that R. Kelly is never going to see the outside world again |
0:43.4 | i don't think that r kelly is ever going to breathe free air again except for the little walks |
0:50.9 | that they take in in the prison guard cell area. |
0:56.7 | That's where R. Kelly is going to spend the next decades. |
1:00.0 | He lived like a king for years. |
1:03.9 | Decades. |
1:04.9 | And now we'll finish out the last years and years of his life in hell? |
1:12.6 | You know, it's so appropriate and fitting. |
1:17.6 | And I, you know, and let me, let me not say this because I really hope that the fuckery |
1:22.8 | that went on with the overturning of Bill Cosby's sentence, I really hope that everything, I pray that it's different because it was sex trafficking |
1:31.8 | because it's federal charges, that it is, you know, sealed and ironclad. |
1:37.5 | But the hell that R. Kelly, the hell that we learned about that R. Kelly created for his victims for years and years. And I mean, |
1:48.0 | the amount, the industry that we learned about, the industry that was created in order to |
1:54.6 | bring these broken people to R. Kelly to abuse. I mean, it is mind blowing what you're able to do if you have some talent and some wealth |
2:08.4 | and celebrity in this country, what people allow you to get away with. |
2:12.0 | If the feds were able to get nine people to testify that he molested or raped them there surely is way more out |
2:22.9 | there who they couldn't find or they didn't know or couldn't coerced a testify or what had |
2:27.4 | like i mean it's just been decades of raping underage girls, molesting people, molesting men, boys, being physically |
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