After R & B superstar R. Kelly was convicted last month on federal sex racketeering charges, his supporters have been crying foul ever since and today many of them are planning to converge on his former Johns Creek home in the suburbs of Atlanta to show their support for the fallen singer.
Arthur D. Alston III professionally known as Choke The Joke, a former Rocafella Records Video Director and Real Housewives of Atlanta producer and social media influencer is spearheading the peaceful protest to bring more attention to what he and many others believes was a wrongful conviction. Choke’s goal is to bring more attention to the 1907 Mann Act that is viewed as a racist law that has been used in the past to prosecute men of color for dating white women.
Congress passes the Mann Act, which was ostensibly aimed at keeping young women from being lured into prostitution, but really offered a way to make a crime out of many kinds of consensual sexual activity.
The influencer was appointed by a cadre of Robert Sylvester Kelly’s supporters to expose some of the problems that lead up to the government convicting the singer on 9 felony counts which includes the discrepancies in witness testimony during the trial and how the Surviving R. Kelly documentary was laced in falsehoods that provided a platform for some whose sole purpose was to financially benefit from the singer’s name. From 3p-6pm today, hundreds of supporters is expected to converge on R. Kelly’s former neighborhood located in the 400 block of Old Homestead Trail, Johns Creek. According to Choke, the current owner of the home has no issue with their presence as long as they do not get on the property.
This is a developing story.
