Wow. This Chris Brown/Rihanna situation is just really hard to put my finger or opinion on. My daughter is a huge CB fan which made me fall in love him. After the song ‘Umbrella” I fell in love with Rihanna. But the thing that is grieving me is not them per se but people going through domestic violence in ‘real’ life. A family member that I love very much has nine DUI’s that he has just acquired in the last couple years and two domestic violence cases that are overlapping each other right now today and after finally getting a 90 day jail sentence he only spent 60 days, if that, incarcerated. He has been going to court and spending a couple hours in jail until someone pays the bail for well over 10 years now, so what that says to me is if you’re a celebrity your perpetrator will be punished. However, if you’re not a celebrity you can get beat up horribly and your attacker will never be punished. His ex-wife’s domestic violence case keeps getting postponed for at least a year now and he can show up at her door whenever he wants, no restraining order was issued, so she has to hide where she lives from him on her own.
I guess my question to all is do we really care about domestic violence victims? Everyone is so hard on Chris because the woman he attacked make great music, she’s a star! And then there are countless others who want us to forgive Chris not because he so much deserves it, but what we’re really saying is “Give him a break, he makes good music and we love his career, don’t destroy that!” The word says God hates double standards or unjust scales.(Proverbs 20:10,23) If the law or individuals want justice, want justice for the small and the great. So, my two cents on this issue is the law is being way too hard on Chris because all the domestic violence abusers I know NEVER spent one second paying for that attack so why should Chris Brown be treated any different. The people I know and love have gotten abused and the police treated me like I was stupid for expecting them to do anything! If the law is to serve and protect, serve and protect us ALL not just if I draw media attention. Selah.
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