Teairra Mari, who stars in the show, "Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood," spoke at a press conference Thursday alongside her attorney, Lisa Bloom.
Mari said last week, she found out that her boyfriend Akbar Abdul-Ahad was cheating on her, so she broke up with him.
Shortly after the breakup, she said Abdul-Ahad posted a "sex tape and an obscene photo" of her "clearly to humiliate" her.
"He had my Instagram password, so he posted them on my Instagram to make me look terrible," she said. "Of course, I was horrified."
She said she immediately took down the images, but her ex-boyfriend's good friend 50 Cent posted a sexually explicit image of her on his Instagram with the caption, "get the strap."
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This woman shouldn't have to file a lawsuit or complain about how someone who claimed to love her treated her like a fool. What he did is the back end component of what I call "Sexual Blackmail."
Any woman put in this position should be able to show the photos to the police and be able to fully expect an arrest warrant issued.
As it stands? White men became experts at this crap first. There were no laws. And when other white men were forced to put laws in place, they put weak laws in place.
So in essence, white men are protecting black men again -- in a very similar manner to the way they protected Bill Cosby. And 50 Cent is a lot safer than Bill Cosby. He's currently making tons of money for all kinds of white men, via his music and via his television show POWER.
However, if women were 50% of local governments, 50% of the House, 50% of the Senate, and always have a 50% chance of becoming president, all 50 states would have REVENGE PORN laws instead of just 38. And each and every one of those laws would likely involve 10 years or more prison time.
Revenge Porn is an act of male domination like rape is. And while revenge porn isn't even in the ballpark with rape, as far as violation goes, women commit suicide over this crap because they know the photos and videos on internet are on there forever no matter how aggressive a company is about deleting them.
At this point, all I can do is hope that 50 Cent's "get the strap" comment is violent enough to get 50 Cent some jail time. I hope they put his ignorant ass in jail right next to Bill Cosby, if Cosby ever actually goes to prison. The two of them can take turns pretending they are the woman they want to sexually abuse.
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"50 Cent has 18 million followers, so I was devastated," she said. "To make it even worse, even after Instagram took the picture down, he had no remorse, no regard, and he posted another photo and complained that IG was censoring him."
On days like this, I'm very aware that I am not at the same risk as light-skinned black women. The most ignorant among black men are hunting them down and promising them the moon. And I'm just guessing but I'd be willing to bet black male rape culture aficionados are ignorant in multiple areas of life, colorism being just one of them.
I know 50 Cent wasn't the one dating Teairra. But black "men" like him --who choose whom they will date using a paper bag or plastic bag test-- tend to travel in packs.
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Wouldn't it be interesting if colorism in black people, in addition to being a sign of internalized racism, also turned out to be the tip of the iceberg for all kinds of other seemingly unrelated crap?
Rape
Revenge Porn
Unpaid Child Support
(...because sex objects are supposed to be sexy and dangle on a man's arm like a Rolex, making him look good NOT get pregnant.)
Colorism is a type of objectification too if you think about it. So why wouldn't sexual objectification walk hand in hand inside a black man more often than not?
The other thing that occurs to me right now is that we don't talk about sexual objectification enough. Black feminists are almost afraid of this subject.
In talking about women's sexual freedom to do what they want to with their bodies, we've stopped talking about sexual objectification -- like these two things are mutually exclusive. And real conversations about sexual objectification by men would necessitate a conversation about self-sexual-objectification among women.
There really are women who think they have no value other than how they look and how many men want to screw them. And a lot of these women are raising daughters and worse they're raising sons too.
So if we're going to take plank out of our own eye before we yank the speck out of black men's eyes, self-sexual objectification is a conversation we need to keep having if all the sistahs are going to navigate and survive the black version of rape culture.
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