Academy Must Not Nominate Sexual Assault Enabler Lady Gaga

Academy Must Not Nominate Sexual Assault Enabler Lady Gaga

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Lady Gaga is a fraudulent scam artist who enabled top sexual assault perpetrators R. Kelly and Terry Richardson. The damage she helped both perpetrators commit is horrible, but she especially supported black girls being raped and kidnapped with her verbal support of R Kelly's actions.

In 2013, the star somehow thought it would be cool to shoot a video for a song she recorded with R. Kelly, "Do What You Want (With My Body)." As HuffPost describes, the video (which was deleted off of all formats in order not to interfere with Gaga's Oscar campaign) features R. Kelly telling Lady Gaga that he's going to "put her asleep" and when she wakes up, she's going to be pregnant. It then shows R. Kelly masturbating while nurses molest her. The video is directed by another man widely accused of sexual assault, Terry Richardson.

For a year after the song and video were released, Lady Gaga praised R. Kelly to the high heavens. She praised his new album six months before marking the one-year anniversary of their collaboration. She also defended him against all the African-American women who spoke out against Kelly at a press conference in Japan. In order to cover up the fact that she enabled R. Kelly to sexually and psychology molest other young girls, Gaga pretended to become a sexual assault survivor herself. During the Oscars telecast in 2016, she even brought out sexual assault survivors and used them as props.

For years, several journalists and media sites tried to get Gaga to comment on her dealings with R. Kelly and Terry Richardson. She would never respond and kept it under the rug until last week (though she still hasn't commented on being best friends with Terry Richardson and working with him until 2016 when she was called out for refusing to participate in the documentary Surviving R Kelly). She only caved in because she is campaigning for an Oscar for her pathetically overrated performance in the pathetically overrated film A Star is Born. Her response was insensitive and basically made her the victim instead of R. Kelly's victims. This wasn't a case of victim shaming; it was the pure symbol of victim changing. She then contacted Christina Aguilera and several press outlets in order to try and clean up her PR mess. She cares more about her image than R Kelly's victims.

The African-American community needs to let the Academy know that we will not put up with a white woman who has helped damage many African-American women, and used her own "suffering" as a shield to excuse herself. If she is nominated or even invited to the Academy Awards, we will boycott advertisers and hold protests when the awards air.

To Lady Gaga -- if you read this, there is only one thing to say: SHAME ON YOU! But we will not let you get away with your pathetic PR stunts this time. YOU'RE FINISHED!

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