So here's my problem. Yes, Chris Brown beat up a woman, and that is never acceptable. I'm not here to say that's okay and he should get off easy with no repercussions. Yes, women who have been beat before will take extreme offense to his actions. No, thankfully, I have never been in that situation.
But the only reason people even know he did anything is because of how wild the media is. If the media wasn't so up in celebrities faces, this probably would have been a private affair that he dealt with on his own and no one would have known and no one would have had issue with him. I'd be shocked if celebrities from 50 years ago weren't involved in crimes of the like; but there wasn't a media frenzy back then like there is now so people wouldn't have known. Frank Sinatra could have beat up a girl when he was 20, but fans wouldn't have heard about it, thus his popularity remains intact and wholesome (no offense, Frank, just for examples sake). The point is, music is separate from personal life choices. And I don't think one offense is enough to slam someone's career into the ground over 3 years later.
Girls have been saying some pretty immature things over the last 24 hours, along the lines of "Chris Brown can beat me up any day," but honestly, no one is above saying things like that. To most of those girls, it was probably a joke. And inappropriate jokes are something everyone is affected by in their life. I don't think I've ever met someone who has never in their entire life laughed at a joke that could have been perceived as racist, sexist, or inhumane to an individual or a group of individuals. I do it, I'm guilty; I have moments of immaturity. And if it wasn't a joke for them...oh well! Like unfortunate for them that somewhere in their life they were failed by someone and that is terribly sad; but that really has nothing to do with Chris Brown. And their statement has everything to do with ONE act by ONE person in his OWN life that many people now use as the single thing that defines their perception of him.
I would hate it if people knew the lows that I sunk to in the lowest part of my life and used those to define who I am. Forget that I am a college student with an above average GPA, I've been a hard working employee since I was old enough to have a job, and that I'm a talented instructor and future educator of this country. That doesn't matter because one time, I got involved in a relationship to make myself feel wanted because I couldn't find it anywhere else. And one time I got drunk because I didn't want to feel anything at all. NOTHING ELSE I do matters because at one point in my life, I did those things.
Yep. So, Chris Brown, while I think that was a terrible thing you did, I think you deserved those Grammys because musically and in your own right, you have talent in the industry. And just because your fame has ruined your private life, I do not think that your musical talents need to suffer because of one decision. Because people make mistakes, and people grow and change and learn. Now if you do it again, shame on you for not learning from that mistake and not seeing it as an opportunity to learn; that's where a lot of us get lost.
End rant. Why not focus on how wonderful Adele was, or how beautiful Jennifer Hudson's tribute to Whitney Houston and all the other lost musical greats was?
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