Jamilah Lemieux Verified account

@JamilahLemieux

Writer/speaker/consultant-for-hire. Actual millennial. Communications Strategist-. Formerly: Cynthia for NY, Cassius, Ebony. Contact via website.

Brooklyn, NY
Joined September 2008
Born 22 July

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    Working in Black media meant I didn't have to defend my humanity or check it at the door each day, but it also came with some damning limitations. Wrote about it for :

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  2. 7 hours ago

    I don't call it a sex cult. But from all I learned it operates very much like a sex trafficking ring.

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  3. This has got to be White Chicks in reverse, I refuse to accept that these auntie minstrels are real. NO family member has sold them out yet?

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  4. 8 hours ago

    ~ says that R Kelly's crisis manager didn't want him to answer the question. But he wanted to answer: : Do you like teenage girls? R Kelly: "When you say teenage, how old are we talking?... I have some 19 year old friends, but nothing illegal."

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  7. How many decisions are made on behalf of Black girls and women by people who look at us and don’t like way we talk, the way that they dress, us in general?

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  9. 7 hours ago

    let me catch anyone close to me singing a syllable of this nigga’s songs.

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  10. It’s not just , it’s the machine that empowers him and powers his brand as an “acceptable predator” - the music executives, CEOs, radio station execs behind the curtain, distributing his twisted messages at mass. As long as they can profit

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  11. It’s really fucking with me... but I’m def going to continue watching to hear these women out ..they deserve

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  12. 8 hours ago

    I see the women cheering on R. Kelly and I damn near panic wondering if there’s anything I’m that ignorant and awful about today, and I just haven’t realized it yet. (Does anyone does think like this? If not, don’t try it. It’s miserable)

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  13. R. Kelly preyed on a 14 yo girl outside of the courthouse where his trial was being held. Don’t tell me that you can separate the art from the artist. He’s a monster.

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  14. Jerhonda is and was a sweet baby girl.

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  15. R. Kelly had a RAPE tape, not a sex tape. It was child pornography.

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  16. 8 hours ago

    I find myself doing a lot of parent blaming in this series & that's immaturity on my part. But black children are not protected. We have allowed supremacist hyper sexualization of black children to permeate our community. And the effects have been catastrophic

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  17. Don’t nobody notice when we skip school. ESP when you have decent grades.

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  18. Bruce...is probably where we need him to be, sad to say

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  20. Negroes sold Black girls out for “Step In the Name of Love.”

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  21. This doc hurts so bad because a monster like him can’t exist without a society that allows him too. His career is a byproduct of rape culture.

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