IF GOD CAN FORGIVE CHRIS BROWN, WHY CAN’T YOU?

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IF GOD CAN FORGIVE CHRIS BROWN, WHY CAN’T YOU?

Some Grammy Awards viewers have voiced strong complaints over the show’s embrace of Chris Brown – just three years after his assault of Rihanna, reports the AP.
Brown appeared on Sunday’s broadcast three different times. He won best R&B album for “F.A.M.E.,” he performed a single from his upcoming album, “Turn Up the Music” [scroll down to watch], and he opened a dance tribute to “Soul Train” creator Don Cornelius.
On the eve of the 2009 Grammys, Brown beat his then-girlfriend Rihanna, for which he later pled guilty to a charge of assault and was sentenced to five years of probation and six months of community labor.

On Sunday evening, Twitter was abuzz with questions of Brown’s significant role in the proceedings.

Many critics argued against the Grammys’ decision to celebrate Brown and endorse his comeback.
New Yorker music critic Sasha Frere-Jones called Brown’s return “one of the Grammys’ weirdest choices ever,” and cited R&B singer Drake as the more deserving star in the genre to celebrate.
In an op-ed, Valerie Strauss for The Washington Post said that while people deserve second chances, “That doesn’t mean they deserve a chance to strut around the Grammy stage a few years after being convicted of felony assault.”
Jeffrey Goldberg for The Atlantic tweeted: “I don’t look for the Grammys for moral clarity, but, really? Do the words ‘felony assault’ mean anything at all?”

Grammy producer Ken Ehrlich defended the show’s backing of Brown on “CBS This Morning” on Monday. He said that he was “kind of rooting” for Brown.
“I just believe people deserve a second chance,” said Ehrlich. “The year he had this year, really brought him back into the public. He really deserved a second chance.”

Certainly, there are many fans of Brown — “Team Breezy,” as he calls them — and they, too, took to social media to defend Brown. But some of those tweets were also held up as examples of questionable taste.
The site Buzzfeed gathered 25 tweets from Brown fans with lines such as: “I don’t know why Rihanna complained. Chris Brown could beat me anytime he wanted to.”

The feminism blog Feministe cited such reaction as evidence that “we as a society have a lot more work to do” to educate on domestic violence. However it’s also been reported that this tweeted feed was a fake and posted to draw negative attention to Chris Brown.
Rita Smith, executive director of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, also questioned the message the Grammy’s were sending.
“If an awards show is going to highlight an artist, what an awesome message they could send if we got an update somehow about how that artist had changed in a positive way,” said Smith. “Otherwise, the message becomes wait for a period of time and go on with business as usual.”

Brown, who didn’t attend last year’s Grammy’s even though he was nominated for three awards, has sometimes portrayed himself as embattled. On Sunday, he tweeted, “Team breezy we have come (a long) way … No matter what anyone says … WE MADE IT!!”
In his acceptance speech and performances, he made no mention or gesture to his last, abbreviated trip to the Grammy’s. But he did tweet — and then delete — the message: “People who make mistakes and learn from them are ROLE MODELS too. I’m just happy to inspire growth and positivity.”

Still, many performers watching at home questioned Brown’s involvement – including celebrities.
“Are Chris Brown’s mom and dad CBS and Grammy Brown?” sarcastically wondered Eric Stonestreet of “Modern Family.”
The singer Michelle Branch tweeted: “Trying not to go off on a rant but … Chris Brown … (bites tongue) have we forgiven him?”
“View” co-host Sherri Shepherd took a similar tact, writing, “Looks like all is forgiven (with) Chris Brown. That’s all I’ll say.”

But what is disturbing to me is that this notion now in America is that people feel you should be punished FOR LIFE? Really too much power is being yielded from these advocacy groups as if the person must be committed TO being sorrowful and wagged around on a leash FOREVER?

So after all this: Brown has worked to repair his image, undergone domestic violence counseling and rediscovered popularity with his hit album “F.A.M.E. (Forgiving All My Enemies).” Last year, his restraining order was eased. The former order required Brown to stay 50 yards away from 23-year-old Rihanna, but the restriction was reduced to 10 yards if they were at a music industry event. Rihanna also performed Sunday but the two never shared the stage. Also he has a new girl friend and since Rihanna was tweeting him and his mother? 

Why would you want to be around him sweetness being a victim of these circumstances?

As far as I am concerned we all live in glass houses and SHOULD never throw stones. We all have had shortcomings and will continue to. Chris Brown is not perfect. But he has paid his dues He has a right to reclaim his career and be rewarded for HIS WORK!

I’ll say it again if God and Rihanna for that matter can forgive Chris Brown…WHY CAN’T YOU?