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Maiysha Kai
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Maiysha Kai is former managing editor of The Glow Up and host of The Root Presents: It's Lit!, and your average Grammy-nominated goddess next door. May I borrow some sugar?

Collectively, the world has been able to agree that a few things are so universally deplorable that they must be outlawed, denounced and punished most severely: child sacrifice, cannibalism. Yet child marriage and rape remain acts that are tolerated. Hmmm, what’s common to both...the abuse of women and girls.

This is less an immigration issue and more of a “fucked up US laws” issue. There are many states where children can be married while being too young to consent - but the marriage nullifies that! No 13 year old child in this country should be able to marry anyone! Not the 15 year old that knocked them up. Not the 40

I owe Mary a debt of gratitude for singing all my pain and victory. Happy birthday to the realest one.

this is some real nonsense, the mom is right to fight back and the school/administrator should be ashamed of their terrible stance.

“Man, I ain’t reading about some rich Jack & Jill Negro Part....ooh is that Angela Bassett AND Amirah Vann IN THE SAME ROOM????”

I’m a teacher. I don’t get dress codes. I can live with uniforms—then there’s not as much opportunity to be blatantly sexist or racist with enforcement. But dress codes that pull girls from class because their collar bones are showing or that try to force black kids to be ashamed of their natural hair? Those don’t

It’s both sad and hilarious that his lawyer’s whole defense can be dissolved with a two second YouTube search smh

His client who has a history of raping minors. He married one. He raped another on tape. 

Listen up folks, you’re getting distracted by Kelly’s lawyer and the pedo defender in the comments. Greenberg potentially screwed his client big time with this interview.

Thank you! I just posted that stat rape is a strict liability crime. An adult’s knowledge of the victim’s age doesn’t matter. All that matters is if you engage in sexual activities with a minor. If you did, you’re guilty.

You are wrong. Statutory rape is a strict liability crime. That means it doesn’t matter whether the adult knew the age of the victim or not. All that matters is whether sexual activities happened with a minor. Knowledge of age can be taken into consideration during sentencing.

I’m a lawyer. A defense lawyer. This is absolutely not a part of your ethical obligations to your client. You are there to advise them and defend them in court in legal matters. You are not required to be a cheerleader. Claiming in court that the prosecution has failed to meet its burden is required. Publicly

I understand that I’m just some schmuck debt collection lawyer from a second-tier law school but even I know that ignorance is not a defense to statutory rape.

actually, no, wrong, so very wrong. ignorance is no legal defense in this case. sleeping with a minor without knowledge is still a crime.

The red herring of Elvis is pathetic. Try Jerry Lee Lewis, Woody Allen, etc. only one of them lost their career, though. I guess the media really can make/break you!

Elvis was married to Priscilla

These are ‘prepper’ foods for people who build bunkers and stockpile weapons for the race war or for when the police find their meth lab and they need to live underground for a year or so. The bucket is just a carrying case for 180 individually wrapped servings of nastiness.

There’s at least one very obvious way to refute this that we already know of: one of his employees said in the series that he (the employee) had her birth certificate forged so they could be married because...wait for it...they knew she was underage!