Akon molested no one!

So I think I need to add my little bit to the Akon controversy.  I supposed it is known by all now that Akon (African-born hip hop star) went to Trinidad and during a performance in the hottest night club there called up a 14 year old to dance in a sexually suggestive manner i.e. he dry-humped her.

 

I’ve read several blog posts about it and I think people are being unreasonable to Akon.  The hypocricy of it all!  Normally, I’d be the first person to condemn such an action but I think Akon is getting a raw deal here.  The blame need to be placed squarely where it belongs.  On her parents’ oh so religious heads. 

Let me break it down.   I don’t know about anywhere else but I do know that it is par for the course for performers when performing at shows in the caribbean to call up one of their fans to display their dancing prowess and wining skills.  The men do it.  The women do it as well.  My favourite female soca performer Alison Hines always call up a few of her male fans to demonstrate how to ‘wuk it’.   Lady Saw has been known to do the same thing.  I don’t need to mention the myriad male soca stars who have ‘grinded’ their ways into the heart of their fans during a performance.     Some of these exhibitions are just as risque as the one that’s being condemned now.

 

 So Akon goes to Trinidad to perform.  The capital of wine and grind and ‘wuk it up’.  The fact that these shows are usually held at a time when children should be in bed, it is reasonable to assume that the patrons at these shows are adults and therefore if a performer calls up one of his screaming and oh-so-willing fans, he wouldn’t be at risk of offending anyone.  I have seen the pictures (one of which is posted below) and video of the performance and no one could guess from the way the girl was attired that she was only 14 years old.   Based on my recollection, no performer usually ask for an identification before inviting anyone on stage so how was he to know that the hot, young thing that he was simulating sex with was a mere child?  She certainly wasn’t dressed like a child!

 

My question is this.  Where were her parents?  Was her father - well known Trinidad Pastor - too busy saving the sinful souls of everyone else to be concerned about the whereabouts of his daughter at that hour?  Those are the questions that need to be asked.  All this talk about Akon molesting a child is simply ridiculous, nonsensical and unreasonable.  

What this incident has underscored though is the need for certain events to be rated or clubs  to require identification for admittance. 

I wish we would get off our high horses, assess the situation in an objective manner before heaping condemnation.