Sherri Shepherd Calls Chris Brown A “Role Model” For Abuse Victims

3:02 pm, February 14th | by Amy Tennery

As we mentioned yesterday, Chris Brown’s performance(s, plural) at the Grammys on Sunday stirred a bit of controversy. After all, the guy is still on probation for brutally beating one of nation’s most beloved pop stars just three years ago. Not a minor thing.

So it came as no surprise that the women of “The View” weighed in on the ensuing Brown controversy today. What was just a bit of a surprise, however, was when show co-host Sherri Shepherd described Chris Brown as a “role model” for abuse victims.

Umm, what?

Shepherd noted that Brown had witnessed his mother’s physical abuse just six years before he, as a full police report noted, put then-girlfriend Rihanna in a chokehold that nearly caused her to pass out, after beating her with his fists and threatening to kill her.

Shepherd’s point was that victims of physical abuse in childhood (like Brown) are more likely to become perpetrators of violence themselves later in life (and there is some research to back up this assertion). She went on to argue that, as someone who survived a violent household, Brown is doing what he can to make amends:

“There may be a child in a situation of going through abuse that Chris Brown has gone through. His mother was abused right in front of his very eyes six years before this happened to Rihanna. He used to wet his pants from the fear… He was a victim! He became an offender. He did what the courts told him to do. He went to 52 weeks a year of domestic prevention counseling.”

Yes, he is doing what the courts have told him to. And that’s great. But isn’t there a difference between “role model” and “doing the bare minimum?”

This is the same person who (just last year) threw a chair through a window after a “Good Morning America” appearance because show co-host Robin Roberts asked him about the status of the restraining order against him (related to his attack on Rihanna). This is also the same person who sent an expletive-laden tirade out on Twitter about his altercation with Rihanna just a few months ago. That doesn’t seem like the behavior of a “role model.”

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Lois

That is the same attitude that encourages young girls to say Chris Brown can beat them anytime: http://stylesubstancesoul.com/2012/02/chris-brown-and-the-importance-of-teen-dating-violence-awareness-month/
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000731711878 Emma Lloyd

“His mother was abused right in front of his very eyes six years before this happened to Rihanna”

Before “this happened to Rihanna”, instead of before “he did this to Rihanna”. Nice way to downplay his role as abuser.
kanagaraj k

Sherri Shepherd Calls Chris Brown “A Role Model” on The View Feb 14 Full Video

http://su.pr/96p6K0
JAM

“Role model” is a pretty damn strong label to give to someone like Chris Brown. I mean, my brothers and I have grown up witnessing our mother being beaten, and neither of my brothers have ever hit women, and I left a verbally abusive guy because I knew he was bad for me. Based on those facts alone, the three of us should be getting standing ovations every time we walk into a room.

Everyday people who simply don’t do the wrong thing don’t get special recognition. My brothers don’t get priority seating at restaurants or on the train, and they don’t get discounts at Starbucks for simply being decent, NORMAL human beings. Why? Because most people know that it’s wrong to verbally humiliate another human being for no reason or wipe the floor with another person’s face just because one has anger problems. Nobody gets special recognition because it’s kind of common sense to not do those things.

Yet, time and time again, celebrities are congratulated for acting on common sense, or for not doing the wrong thing (note that I didn’t say, “doing the right thing” — think about it– there is a difference between “doing the right thing” and simply “not doing the wrong thing”).

Being a celebrity, this asshole is suddenly considered a role model because he suddenly stops hitting his girlfriend. The only reason this happened, btw, is because she broke up with him — which, in my book, makes HER the role model to women who’ve had to deal with similar situations. Had she stayed with him, who knows how many more times he’d have beaten her?

Our society/his record label/the entertainment industry at large should be making a example of him by refusing to have him perform at any awards show, refusing to renew his contract, and refusing to have him book ANY arenas. Instead, he gets to put on multiple performances at the Grammys, telling the world that any talented talent agent and publicist can make any dickwad, no matter how violent, disturbed, or dangerously troubled, look as innocent as the driven snow. THAT is not OK.
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That’s …. that’s so horrid …
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