Celebrities Opine on the US Supreme Court
... And Kendrick Lamar Preaches Abortion Dressed As Jesus
MUSIC stars used last week’s BET Awards to speak out against the US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade - and as usual, made no sense.
After Lizzo performed her hit song “About Damn Time”, award show host Taraji Henson opined …
"It's about damn time we talk about the fact that guns have more rights than women.”
Guns have rights? Er, no.
Men and women have the right to bear arms. It’s in the constitution - unlike abortion.
It must have sounded much better in her head than in her mouth.
Undeterred by logic - or any kind of internal filter - Henson continued:
"A weapon that can take lives has more power than a woman that can give life - if she chooses to."
Where to begin?
A weapon does not take a life. It’s an inanimate object. It’s for this reason that we arrest the shooter - whether male or female - and not the Glock.
Oh, and if a pregnant women chooses not to “give life” then she would ______ (we’ll let Henson fill in the blank) a life. Like a weapon.
Unlike rap music, making a coherent argument requires more than arranging words in pretty patterns.
Henson wasn’t the only performer who should have stuck to handing out music awards.
Introducing nominees for the best female R&B/pop artist at the LA ceremony, singer/song writer Janelle Monae said:
"These artists are making art on our own terms, owning our truths and expressing ourselves freely and unapologetically in a world that tries to control and police our bodies, my body and our decisions.”
Sheesh! What kind of world do we live in where women can write a song but can’t freely and unapologetically express themselves by aborting their baby?
Here’s an example of Monae owning her truth in her sit song “Screwed” …
Wanna get screwed on a holiday
Wanna get screwed in a matinée
Wanna get screwed at a festival
Wanna get screwed like an animal
Yep. Your body, your choice. Um, maybe make better choices, at least when you’re in a matinee for goodness sake!
Later in the awards show Monae urged men to support women’s rights to express themselves, not just in the music studio, but in the Planned Parenthood clinic.
"I want to speak directly to the men: We need y'all. We need y'all to stand up, stand up for us, stand up with us," she told the audience.
"If you've ever benefited from a woman making one of the toughest decisions of her life, which is to terminate a pregnancy, you need to be standing.
To which every man said …
‘Well sure. If it means we can screw on a holiday, in a matinee, at a festival and like an animal, we’ll be only too happy to pay your Uber to the abor … er … women’s health clinic.’
Men just love women’s rights.
Kendrick Lamar couldn’t attend the ceremony to collect his best male hip-hop artist award, but spoke out against the Roe v Wade ruling from the festival stage at Glastonbury.
Wearing a crown of thorns, and with a blood-like substance pouring down his face, he told the crowd:
"Godspeed for women's rights. They judge you, they judge Christ.”
Godspeed to abort your baby?
Huh?
There’s nothing like dressing up as Jesus to promote abortion.
Then again, the crown of thorns was encrusted with diamonds so maybe Lamar got the irony of what he was doing. Who knows.
Anyway, at his next concert he’s going to go on stage dressed as Mohammad to preach LGBTQ+ rights, or not.
Writing songs about unbridled licentious activities and ignoring the consequences…. Is not compared to spraying a shopping mall with bullets…
The deaths from the US from automatic weapons are nowhere near those from killing innocent babies.
Just ridiculous that so many people have lost all sense of reason
I am at a loss as to how these vile people get away with their disgusting songs and blasphmous language. It seems the more disgusting they get, the more accolades.