the best reaction to chris brown and pon de forehead I have seen

probably (or maybe not) you have heard about chris brown beating on rihanna. most likely, you don't really care. that is fine, they suck. BUT, the video below is the best, most intellectual reaction I have seen w/o being preachy.

this woman, Elizabeth Mendez Berry, wrote a ground-breaking VIBE article about domestic violence in hip-hop entitled "Love Hurts: Rap's Black Eye." (read here) (she wrote it in reaction to everybody in the hip hop community freaking out and getting pissed at big pun's wife, b/c after he died, she helped create a documentary on him and put in actual footage of him pistol whipping her from a security camera.)

for example, this is a comment off of a page that had the link to the video "Sometimes bitches get outta line, you don't know what she may have done to deserve that, maybe she was snortin coke in front of his kids or something, I'd pistol whip a girl if they were doing drugs in front of my son." there were a bunch more, too, though that were like "even if he's a good rapper he is scum if he hits a women. (and what she "did" to "deserve it" was Pun thought she had misplaced his gun from where he put it, but someone else actually put it somewhere else)



she talks about why we are so reluctant and unwilling to acknowledge victim abuse. for example, she said everybody freaked out at pun's wife "for airing their dirty laundry," but what she actually was trying to do was stop the cycle of violence their own kids by talking about it (pun came from a violent household). whatever. just watch it. or go read this.