National political consultant and commentator Jehmu Greene is weighing in on the uproar over the recent New York Post political cartoon in the African American community while there’s been relative silence and excuse making about Chris Brown’s alleged assault of his girlfriend Rihanna. Green writes:

A political cartoon is misinterpreted and African American organizations and their talking heads immediately see an opportunity to make noise. Meanwhile, a famous black woman is beat down by her equally famous black boyfriend and commentary in the black community centers around, “What did she do to cause it?” Why are some African Americans so cowardly when it comes to addressing black-on-black violence? There is no end to the activists’ displays of outrage when racism is perceived. Yet, the silence is deafening, drowned out only by the hypocrisy and ignorance when the perpetrator is black.

Rupert Murdoch may be public enemy number one for the progressive community, but he and his posse at the New York Post are not sanctioning the abuse and killing of black women. The beating Rihanna experienced at the hands of Chris Brown was tragic, but definitely not uncommon.

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Noted editor Bonnie Fuller writes in the Huffington Post that Rihanna should learn from the case of Tina Turner and leave her boyfriend Chris Brown for good as Tina did with her abusive husband Ike. Fuller writes:

Rihanna needs to ask herself “Do I want to spend years of my life, like Tina, trapped in a relationship so controlling that I could lose all my self-esteem and control over my own finances?” It could happen.

After Turner ran away, she spent years living on food stamps before being able to reignite her career. “My life…couldn’t have gotten much lower,” she told USA Today.

Unfortunately, there are reports that Rihanna, like many women in abusive relationships, isn’t ready to give up on her boyfriend yet.

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Toure of Rolling Stone weighed in on the battle Chris Brown is facing as his career is appearing to be in jeopardy due to the alleged assault of his girlfriend Rihanna. Writing before the image of a battered Rihanna emerged earlier today, Toure wrote:

Chris’s battle has just begun and it’s impossible to know how it’ll end. The comparisons to the Ike Turner situation fall short because Ike’s heavy-handedness wasn’t widely known about until years after his peak — the instantaneous national awareness of Chris’s situation and the modern multimedia echo chamber make this much more visceral. He’s shocked his young fans and destroyed his sweet loverboy image while inflicting pain on a rich, beautiful female star who no one can denigrate as a golddigger trying to exploit him for money. Some music industry people say he’s got no chance to come back — an artist for teenagers has nowhere to go after breaking fans’ hearts in this painful way. Others say there’s a chance for redemption because fans are less attached to people than to their sound so a few great singles from Chris will wash away the stain. That strikes me as naive — he’s going to have to somehow remove the cloud before we can dance to his music with a clear conscience. Ask Michael Jackson about that. And Chris’s also got to get the gatekeepers of music back on his side. Some radio stations have already banned his music.

Chris’s biggest worry is that the pictures police took of Rihanna after the fight will emerge. If we ever see them he might as well go off to college.

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While reminding everyone the reports about Chris Brown beating girlfriend Rihanna remain allegations, Marc Malkin of E! sounded off on some of the people leaving comments at eonline.com trying to justify Brown abusing Rihanna. “What the hell is this all about,” Malkin wondered. “I don’t care what a woman does or doesn’t do, a man has no right to hit her. Period. The end. What is so hard to understand about this?”

Video at eonline.com has since been removed.