by Krystal Franklin

January 23, 2019

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Yikes! Taraji P. Henson found herself in a bit of questionable position on Tuesday after she posted a series of now-deleted videos that show her scrolling through Instagram, searching the hashtags #MuteRKelly and #MuteHarveyWeinstein. What she found was an overwhelmingly amount of posts under the singer’s hashtag and almost none under the Hollywood executives. Watch.

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Soon after the Empire star found herself Trending on Twitter and for all the wrong reasons.

Lord. Taraji is on InstaStory comparing R. Kelly to Harvey Weinstein, as if R. Kelly is being treated unfairly.

What is life? 🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏿‍♂️

— Jarrett Hill (@JarrettHill) January 22, 2019

I wanna have a conversation about women Taraji's/Erykah's age and their obsession with "being a man's peace/shield/sponge because society brings them down enough" but I've already hit my 1 thread a day limit.

— Mári 🇵🇷 (I'm Black. This isn't hard.) (@_ItsMarisWorld_) January 22, 2019

Taraji’s IG story is stupid considering Weinstein has pending charges whereas R Kelly only has a hashtag.

— Kiara (@Kiara865) January 22, 2019

Y’all should t be surprised that Taraji is defending R.Kelly. This is the same woman that claims to love gays while weaponizing homosexuality against men in her comments. She’s ignorant as fuck.

— We Losin Recipes! (@Les_The_Great) January 22, 2019

I endured Acrimony, just for Taraji P. Henson to act like THIS on her IG story? pic.twitter.com/SDvm8ipT0i

— guacaholy (@bibrows) January 22, 2019

The woman behind the infamous Surviving R. Kelly docuseries, Director dream hampton also stepped in, sharing her thoughts on the issue.

Plus Weinstein is on trial. For rape.

— dream hampton (@dreamhampton) January 22, 2019

Plus, you don't really care about Weinstein, you just want silence around R. Kelly. Taraji, like me, is from the generation whose job it was to deal with R. Kelly 20 years ago. We didn't and countless girls were harmed because of our inaction. So I made #SurvivingRKellly

— dream hampton (@dreamhampton) January 22, 2019

The backlash continued online, prompting the actress to delete the posts altogether and clarify what she meant on Twitter.

LET ME BE CLEAR R. KELLY IS GUILTY AND WRONG AND SHOULD BE MUTED PERIOD!!!!! 💋💋💋

— Taraji P. Henson (@TherealTaraji) January 22, 2019

Last week Erykah Badu and Da Brat also found themselves under attack after they seemingly decided to still support Kelly and his music, despite Sony parting ways with the Grammy award winner since the docuseries aired. Kelly’s daughter spoke out about the decade’s long accusations, including the singer’s younger brother, revealing both he and Kelly were molested by their sister. Tank, Ne-Yo and Omarion made possibly one of the boldest statements, publicly condemning the 52-year-old, despite a 21% increase in Kelly’s streams, unfortunately proving it might actually be harder to mute him than one thinks.

TELL US: Fair or foul?

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1. Tank and his wife Zena Foster

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2. Lil Mama

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3. MC Lyte

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4. Da Brat

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5. Justine Skye

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6. Big Tigger

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7. Dapper Dan

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8. Sevyn Streeter

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9. India.Arie

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10. Kim Burrell

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11. Jade Novah and her husband Devin Johnson

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12. Jay Barnett

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13. Brely Evans

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14. Shamari and Brandi of Blaque

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15. Lou Gossett and Robert Townsend

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16. Major

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17. Wendy Raquel Robinson and Yo-Yo

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18. Fonzworth Bentley

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19. Q Parker and his wife Sharlinda

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20. Angela Robinson

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21. T.C. Carson

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22. Brian Courtney Wilson

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23. Trina Braxton and boyfriend Von Scales

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