Monday, January 14, 2019

Tulsa Radio: The #MuteRKelly Movement Arrives

Perry Broadcasting banned the artist from playing on two of its Tulsa stations -- KJMM 105.3 and KGTO 1050 AM / 99.1 FM.

It comes after a new documentary makes allegations of sexual misconduct involving several women and underage girls.

"I don't want to play this anymore, knowing what I know," Ali Shaw on-air personality for 105.3 told KTUL-TV.  She personally knows the pain R. Kelly's victims are feeling.

"I was a victim of sexual child abuse when I was five," said Shaw.

When she found out about what the victims said they suffered, she knew she wouldn't play his music anymore.

"To see what these... young women and ladies were going through, and thinking, 'What if they had been my daughter?'... It took me a while to get through it," said Shaw.

"We took them out of rotation and deleted them out of our computer," explained Assistant Program Director Aaron Bernard for 105.3 and 99.1. "It's a sense of morality to say enough is enough. Eventually, things catch up to people, and eventually, you're going to have to make some kind of stand for what's been going on."

An attorney for R. Kelly said the R&B star denies all the allegations against him.

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