BEATINGS INSTEAD OF BEATS BY DR DRE

It's reported that the movie "Straight Outta Compton" glossed over some stuff. And it sounds like the job done on the movie was even shinier than the gloss job done on the James Brown. That is, at least they showed a smidgen of something about his beating on black women.  

It sounds like "Straight Outta Compton" didn't do that much.  But more to the point, in 1991 Dr. Dre bragged about beating up one woman

Last year, hip hop blogger Byron Crawford listed three women Dr. Dre assaulted over the years in the damning piece, “Beatings By Dre.” Among Dre’s victims were his ex-wife Michel’le, who admitted the legendary producer beat her so badly she had to have plastic surgery.

Dre said back then, “I just did it, you know. Ain’t nothing you can do now by talking about it. Besides, it ain’t no big thing—I just threw her through a door."                                                                                                                             Rollingstone, 1991 

All Dre has to say today is about how he was "young" and stupid and how he's "paid for those mistakes."


Hmmm, I'm pretty sure that would  NOT be enough if a white man was talking about beating a black person and not-enough-squared if that same white man was talking about beating up a black man -- a long time ago when  you and stupid.

Instead of size and strength, like a man has over a woman, maybe you can imagine that the beating white man would have authoritative power over the beaten black man --like a white man might inside a prison.

I'm pretty sure...

1) Young
2) Stupid
3) I've paid

...would not cut it as an excuse or an explanation in those circumstances.

And we, as black people, would not come close to believing a white man who gave us this apology(?) on the heals of a movie about himself that GLOSSES OVER this point AS IF IT DIDN'T MATTER.

#BlackLivesMatter

#BlackWomenMatter

#BlackWomenMatterEvenWhenTheOppressorIsABlackMan

I hope Dr. Dre comes correct at some point in the future. Some how I have a little more hope for him than I do

RAY Stand-Behind-Janae-Taking-The-Blame RICE,

BILL drug-em-and-rape-em COSBY, or

CHRIS explosively-childish-needs-ass-kicked BROWN

Then again, maybe I shouldn't have more hope for Dre. Dr. Dre has no support from us. The black community is notoriously slack when it come to holding rich black men accountable for anything. It's like a black man's becoming rich is empowering for someone besides the man himself.

Maybe once upon a time every black breakthrough into wealth was something to marvel. But it's 2015. I'm completely over it.  The three already mentioned plus those like Whoopi Goldberg, "Happy" singer with the Smokey-The-Bear Hat, Don Lemon, and Raven Symone --the last four a mixture of respectability politicians and "new blacks" -- are proving that they are over it too. They don't want to be examples and/or they don't act like anything any black body should aspire to. They, as individuals, may donate money here and there, but their attitudes are about me, myself, and I.

It's time to stop holding the black rich up on pedestals so we can start pulling them down and putting them under the microscope. We don't need perfection in the black successful. But we, the everyday black folk, need to be a lot more discerning than we have been. We need to look, and have our children look, for our imperfect heroes somewhere other than Hollywood.*


   
READ MORE

https://medium.com/@byroncrawford/beatings-by-dr-dre-3c8e62bec8f1

http://www.clutchmagonline.com/2015/08/dr-dre-on-allegations-he-beat-women-i-made-some-fcking-horrible-mistakes-in-my-life/

*- except Jesse Williams who is beyond awesome