Russell Simmons, R. Kelly, and Why Black Women Can’t Say #MeToo

Russell Simmons, R. Kelly, and Why Black Women Can’t Say #MeToo

Shanita Hubbard | The New York Times

There’s an intersection in almost every hood that teaches young girls lessons about power, racism and sexism. In the projects, where I grew up, I had to pass it almost every day to get home from school.

This intersection is where some of the guys from the neighborhood would stand around, play music, trash-talk about which artist should hold the title of greatest rapper, and then, suddenly, turn into dangerous predators when young girls walked by.