{"id":132973,"date":"2024-10-16T15:35:35","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T19:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=132973"},"modified":"2024-10-24T15:16:05","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T19:16:05","slug":"tarana-burke-r-kelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/tarana-burke-r-kelly\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarana Burke &#038; the R. Kelly Docuseries Controversy She Faced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>How did Tarana Burke contribute to <em>Surviving R. Kelly<\/em>? Why did she receive backlash for the docuseries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Burke has lent her expertise on healing from sexual violence to projects outside her \u201cme too\u201d movement. For example, she contributed to the <em>Surviving R. Kelly<\/em> docuseries, which detailed R&amp;B artist R. Kelly\u2019s serial abuse of Black girls and women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Discover the controversy behind Tarana Burke&#8217;s R. Kelly docuseries backlash below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-burke-s-work-on-surviving-r-kelly\">Burke\u2019s Work on <em>Surviving R. Kelly<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In a discussion about R. Kelly, Tarana Burke says that she hoped this docuseries would create an opportunity for honest, healing conversations about sexual violence in the Black community, empower Black women to speak up and begin healing, and encourage Black men to join the fight against sexual violence. However, the docuseries provoked significant backlash from the Black community, and she was accused of hating Black men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: Although <em>Surviving R. Kelly <\/em>garnered some backlash\u2014including a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/general-news\/surviving-r-kelly-impact-addresses-victim-backlash-muterkelly-1207343\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">marked increase in streams of Kelly\u2019s music<\/a> after the documentary aired\u2014it also galvanized efforts to hold Kelly responsible for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/general-news\/surviving-r-kelly-impact-addresses-victim-backlash-muterkelly-1207343\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sexual crimes he committed over a period of 20 years<\/a>. After the documentary aired, his record company stopped working with him, his concerts were cancelled, and he was swiftly charged with multiple counts of sexual abuse, sex trafficking, and child pornography. Kelly was convicted of many of these charges and, as a result, was sentenced to 30 years in prison in 2022.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Burke lists a few reasons for the backlash that resulted from <em>Surviving R. Kelly: <\/em>First, the Black community often protects men who are accused of sexual violence. This tendency evolved from a history of white women falsely accusing Black men of rape, which led to the men\u2019s incarceration or death. The community is especially likely to protect Black men who make valuable contributions to Black culture\u2014both R. Kelly and James Bevel, who we mentioned earlier, fall into this category. Protecting these men often amounts to silencing or scorning their Black female accusers. Second, because white racists view Black people as a homogenous group, Black people are incentivized not to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/grab-attention\/\">draw attention<\/a> to any Black person\u2019s moral failings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hup.harvard.edu\/books\/9780674088115\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Redefining Rape<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em>Freedman provides further context on the history of white women falsely accusing Black men: Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, white racists equated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/black-american-identity\/\">Black identity<\/a> with animalistic sexuality\u2014and they painted Black men as natural predators of white women. These beliefs were so widespread that <a href=\"https:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/article\/redefining-rape\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">unfounded accusations were often used to justify lynchings of Black men<\/a>, a legacy that resonates today since, as Michele Alexander (<a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/the-new-jim-crow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>The New Jim Crow<\/em><\/a><em>) <\/em>explains, Black men remain unfairly criminalized by the US justice system. The second reason Burke gives for the backlash against <em>Surviving R. Kelly<\/em>\u2014the Black community\u2019s fear of affirming racist stereotypes\u2014is known as <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/the-terrifying-power-of-stereotypes-and-how-to-deal-with-them-101904\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>stereotype threat<\/em><\/a><em>.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Burke explains that since neither <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/when-was-the-me-too-movement-founded\/\">the #MeToo movement<\/a> nor the fallout of the <em>Surviving R. Kelly <\/em>series created space for the Black community to begin healing from sexual violence, she continues to promote that healing from inside the community-focused \u201cme too\u201d movement. She hopes that by continuing to share her story and work with individuals within her community, she can foster a supportive environment for Black survivors of sexual violence and encourage a culture of accountability for abusers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: In the midst of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/podcasts\/post-reports\/the-mounting-allegations-against-sean-diddy-combs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">April 2024 investigation into the rapper Sean Combs (known as \u201cDiddy\u201d)<\/a> on suspicion of sexual violence and sex trafficking, Burke suggested that the Black community\u2019s attitude toward accountability and support for survivors of sexual violence has shifted in a positive direction since <em>Unbound<\/em>\u2019s publication. She noted that in Diddy\u2019s case, Black people (and the general public) have been more inclined to believe victims\u2019 accusations and to talk about sexual violence instead of shutting the conversation down. This came as a surprise to Burke, given the backlash she received for working on the <em>Surviving R. Kelly <\/em>series. Burke <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/music-news\/diddy-allegations-metoo-founder-tarana-burke-1235867216\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">attributes this shift in attitude to a changing world<\/a>\u2014the younger generation, she says, is far less tolerant of bad sexual behavior.)\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did Tarana Burke contribute to Surviving R. Kelly? Why did she receive backlash for the docuseries? Burke has lent her expertise on healing from sexual violence to projects outside her \u201cme too\u201d movement. For example, she contributed to the Surviving R. 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