Taraji P. Henson has come under fire for questioning why it seems R. Kelly is being held more accountable than Harvey Weinstein.
She took to Instagram Stories on Tuesday and shared a a series of videos, first of her looking up the hashtag and fan pages under “Mute R. Kelly.”
Of course, she found a few.
She then repeated her search — only this time she looked for similar pages and hashtags about Harvey Weinstein. She didn’t find many.
Taraji then shared an emoji and “hmm,” suggesting she was confused as to why there was backlash for one and seemingly not the other.
Needless to say, people aren’t having it.
Taraji pic.twitter.com/dKDUW1S0Zc
— afro deezy hack • (@TrueTashan) January 22, 2019
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I guess Taraji listened to men’s thoughts for too long in that last movie & started actin up on IG pic.twitter.com/1WpqJeIN4s— ToraShae (@BlackMajiik) January 22, 2019
https://twitter.com/MiQL/status/1087846694706765825
I’m so disappointed in Taraji like pic.twitter.com/TlbZj9CCpQ
— ? (@gorqeousaly) January 22, 2019
I see why Taraji is trending and I’m extremely disappointed. And her new movie coming out that I wanted to see…guess I’ll just keep my lil coins ?????
— J?? (@__YouLoveJazz) January 22, 2019
https://twitter.com/nettesaysso/status/1087846092396478466
‘Surviving R. Kelly’ producer Dream Hampton offered her thoughts on Taraji’s questioning.
https://twitter.com/dreamhampton/status/1087821814485573632
https://twitter.com/dreamhampton/status/1087821888091373568
https://twitter.com/dreamhampton/status/1087822319098093569
https://twitter.com/dreamhampton/status/1087828881774567424
Furthermore, Taraji’s former manager faced some sexual harassment allegations of his own and Taraji was quick to issue a statement about how she was ‘saddened’ and how ‘this has to stop’ — where’s that compassion now?
Update: Taraji has responded to the backlash.
LET ME BE CLEAR R. KELLY IS GUILTY AND WRONG AND SHOULD BE MUTED PERIOD!!!!! ???
— Taraji P. Henson (@tarajiphenson) January 22, 2019
