sometimes I sit here and I think about the message that society is giving us if
you could sing and dance or if you can act or if you make a ton of money you
can pretty much get away with anything hell in this day and age you can even
become the President of the United States what is up everybody this is
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notification about so yeah this was actually on my mind ever since
marshmallow released his track with Chris Brown that was like trending on
YouTube and everything and I was thinking back to months and months and
months ago the YouTube creator who is just killing it right now Gus Johnson
has even been featured on Comedy Central and things like that many ways Gus
Johnson like kind of stepped out of his comedy skit needs to make a video about
Chris Brown and I really respect him for that like like just stepping out of like
what you do just because something's bothering you like you know in the world
and just saying you know what I need to talk about this I have a platform I need
to talk about this and this is something that I do on my platform as well and I
think more creators should do this and more people should advocate for things
that they believe in the a-list he made a video about Chris Brown or just how
confused he was about the situation and how upset he was about the situation and
basically you know in Gus's video he talks about Chris Brown's history of
like assault abuse and everything like that when you think about Chris Brown
you often think about what he did to Rihanna like what was that like almost a
decade ago something like that right but what Gus was pointing out was like this
is a behavior that has not stopped this isn't something that Chris like served
time for or he like you know learn from or anything like that like since then
like just pointed out like since then Chris Brown has had a record of
doing terrible things like ever since then because in Chris Brown's mind he
can get away with anything and something that gusts talk about is how bumps him
out that people like that he he is a fan of as artists like little Diggy for
example would work with somebody like Chris Brown and it really gets him
thinking and I can definitely relate to that like that's something that I think
about like I think that we should all be checking in with our morals and our
motivations and everything like that and like there are artists out there who I
no longer support I've mentioned this in a video before but like I no longer
support Empire and this was before the Jesse Smollett incident that happened
but like just because the one of the main actors in there what's his name is
Terrence Howard he has had a history of domestic violence against women right
and like once I learned that I was like no man I don't really want to watch this
this show anymore I'm like because like something that we're doing just as a
society in my opinion we are letting people get away with it we're telling
I'm like okay even though you did some awful things we still got your back
because we value like entertainment above all else but there's something
that that's going on like where we have to take a look back and say can we
really enjoy it like are we forcing ourselves to not think about the
terrible things that that person has done so to follow up with that just the
other day on Twitter duskie vocalized you know what I was
thinking too it's like oh no now marshmallow is collaborating with Chris
Brown like I love me some marshmallow I love me some marshmello right and he
just recently did a song with chvrches and churches is one of my favorite bands
out there so the next part of this video is that chvrches spoke out about this as
well so chvrches actually made a post that said this we are really upset
confused and disappointed by marshmellows choice to work with Tyga
and Chris Brown we like and respect Melo as a person but working with people who
are predators and abusers enables excuses and
ultimately tacitly endorses that behavior that is not something we can or
will stand behind this is another kind of like what I was saying about Gus
Johnson but like chvrches they spoke up about this like they they talk about
things that they believe in and here's the thing for anybody out there I don't
care if you want to be you know a YouTube creator a singer an actor an
athlete or just somebody like you know trying to work your way up the corporate
ladder like we need like something that makes us human is that we need to have
like our own moral compass and everybody has like different moral compasses but
like there's some things where we have to stand just put a foot down and saying
this is not okay this is not right like why do you think so many celebrities and
and people in the public spotlight get so depressed because they lose
themselves so like huge huge props to churches who are speaking up about this
and they were just doing it and they ended up talking about this as a concert
like and a culture like they they just recently worked with marshmallow and
because of their advocacy like I'm the lead singer Lauren like she works with
like a rape crisis organization in Scotland like she felt like oh they felt
that they need to speak up about this because they just worked with
marshmallow well anyways anyways Chris Brown had to reply to this and here's
what he had to say about a bunch of losers these are the type of people I
wish walk in front of a speeding bus full of mental patients keep groveling
over you own insecurities and hatred I'm black and proud stop it stop just stop
timeout timeout as a half black man that is absolutely ridiculous to even mention
that and to say I'm black and I'm proud like the message that you're putting out
there for other black men is that it's okay for us to be delusional dicks all
right like this is such a delusional statement that he made like just
tossing that in there to try to make this a race thing there is nothing that
churches said that had anything to do with race how do you do it the fact that
you beat women okay and it has to do with the fact that you are currently
being accused of rape okay it had nothing to do with your skin color and
it absolutely just kills me when people play this kind of like identity politics
like whoa whoa whoa okay this is about my witness no it's because you're in
anyways he goes on to say and I know it hurts that you guys are struggling with
life or peace so you are forced to see my success you aren't even number two
remember second place only means you lost first Tata good day peasants like
that right there that right there these are the words of a man who since being a
teenager got into the public spotlight has been able to get away with whatever
he wants okay and like this is something that we all need to look at as a society
because every time we stream their music every time we watch one of their videos
every time we do anything we are endorsing that behavior we are telling
them we are sending them a message with every single stream listen view whatever
it is we are saying your behavior is okay all right like I've personally like
I yo I used to have a ton of Chris Brown music on my Spotify playlist and I can't
even listen to it anymore hell I even had just a small let songs from the show
Empire all my playlists I can't even listen to it anymore so then since then
since then churches has been getting death threats and I'm gonna link to the
TMZ article down below but they have a clip from the church's concert where
they kind of talked about this situation and why they express their you know
their opinion about marshmallow working with Chris Brown or whatever but they go
on to say that people are threatening to rape them and shoot them because they
spoke out about domestic violence and rape okay and that is absolutely
ridiculous but here's my favorite quote from Lauren and I just love churches
even more for this Angry Men on the Internet can call me all the names they
want I still think Messick abuse is wrong you go girl
you go the last thing I want to talk about in this situation is like the
artists who keep working with Chris Brown Mike it is just brutal like I try
to be empathetic okay like and empathy is just a matter of putting yourself in
someone else's shoes so I try to put myself in the other person's shoes like
little Dicky someone I'm a fan of marshmallows somewhat I'm a fan of and
try to put myself in their shoes of working with Chris Brown and I just
don't see how you could do it I do not I can't imagine doing that like knowing
knowing what this person has done right know what this person has done I can't
imagine recording a song with them making a
video with them having a good time joking around without it being in the
front of my mind that this is a terrible person like this is a person who does
horrendous things and gets away with it and I am enabling that behavior like I
can't imagine being in an office like imagine being at your office and and
hiring somebody or working with somebody who you know beats women or abuses women
like could you imagine working with that person like them being at the desk right
next to you like how would you feel about that how comfortable would you
feel about that or if you're like a boss or an employer like imagine hiring that
person imagine knowing imagine knowing that they have not paid for their crimes
right they're shown no remorse and imagine hiring that person you know what
I mean so I look at it and I look at you know the little Dicky saw on Freaky
Friday or this new song with marshmallow and I'm like like am I made to believe
should I believe that there was no other no other lnb artists who could be on
this track like is this something that just wasn't wasn't possible and that
that's absolutely ridiculous you know what I mean like there's so many R&B
artists you know so so so many help get somebody from boys to men you know what
ii know that probably wouldn't afford for Freaky Friday
or maybe marshmallow soft anyways I love me some boys to bed but
like Colleen you know what I mean like I'm up here but like that's what I'm
wondering like why Chris Brown like of all the options why Chris Brown and the
the conflict that I have especially with somebody like little Dicky is that he
just made this phenomenal like Earth Day song about how we need to like you know
get together and I protect the earth and global warming and all that stuff so
like little Dicky has these like morals and values but he worked with Chris
Brown and that's why I'm just like uh like cuz I that's the thing as people we
are very selective of when we want our morals to guide us you know what I'm
saying we are very selective about these things and like I hate to bring this up
but like I'm a vegetarian and something that I realized you know when I became
vegetarian was like I was being very selective about animal abuse and how
even to this day like I'm vegetarian I'm not vegan you know and I'd be lying
to you if I said like oh I only buy these types of eggs or these types of
cheeses or whatever but you know like this is something that I think about you
know if if we hear about you know child labor you know in other countries like
oh my god that's awful but then again most of us don't even know what our
clothes came from you know what I mean we are very selective with our morals
and it's like I don't know I just think as people we should just kind of look at
the different things that we're doing in like in certain points at certain points
we have to pull our foot down and say like no this is not okay and I'm no
longer going to endorse or enable that type of behavior
alright anyways those are my thoughts on this subject let me know your thoughts
down in the comments below do you feel like we give people who are singers or
dancers or athletes or actors or whoever it is you feel like we give them more of
a pass and we would the average person let me know your thoughts down in the
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