Good morning Ms. Hope

But I assume you DID receive my photos and info regarding the character Jafar, correct? Please keep me updated.

I know I read somewhere that the Genie was originally envisioned as a Fats Waller/Cab Calloway-type character, before Robin Williams wound up with the part. They’ve definitely gone back to that idea with the Genie in the Broadway musical, and Coriolanus Burt James Monroe Iglehart fit that mold really well.

I saw the fucking tape...and saw him hanging out at Kenwood High School and Hyde Park for YEARS trying to get young girls...so FUCK ALL THAT YOU STATED! And SHAME ON YOU!

Now we can get back to our regularly scheduled national nightmare.

There’s been reports of his extensive grooming of middle school and high school aged girls for decades now. The sex cult thing isn’t surprising to anyone who has read those reports (although I acknowledge that the comment you replied to only makes mention of the one sexual assault from the aforementioned infamous…

Our long national nightmare is over.

Sky’s the limit for someone who’s been openly preying on young black girls for decades and hasn’t faced any real consequences, though. There’s nothing you could say about his behavior that would surprise me.

That song with Gaga was only a few years ago. It was surprised that she did it because she came forward about her own sexual assault.

I still remember a year or two back, when a couple of Jezebel editors (Kara Brown was one, I think) were trying to be all hipster ironic approving and loving about Kelly and got DRAGGED. FOR. FILTH. by nearly all the commenters.

Well I for one am shocked, simply SHOCKED, that a guy who videotaped himself committing statutory rape and urinating on a child only to inexplicably get away with it without any legal or professional consequences whatsoever would go on to continue behaving in an inappropriate fashion. Who could have possibly predicted…

Collaborations with artists like Lady Gaga

I’ve hung out with R. Kelly, he told me that women are flowers and he has the soil and water to help them bloom.

“trying to bring successful black men down”

I read this. Sick and disgusting. Even worse, how are there no laws to protect people in these situations?? The whole, “she is over 21 so not a missing person” think is horrid;

Not to mention, he is known for his abuse of Black girls. That gives him an extra pass along with the fame and money. See, those girls are “fast” and were “asking for it.”

I gave up on R. Kelly years ago. I caught grief on it from dozens of folks: friends, relatives and otherwise; I just don’t mention it to anybody now. But no, I got no use for him. Period. As far as I am concerned, he should have gone to jail back then and got away with his crimes. Period.

Being an R. Kelly fan is just as bad, if not worse, than being a Chris Brown fan.