Black Mom Talks About Son’s Rape at Penn State + DRAKE takes heat

(blackmediaSCOOP) Rapper Drake is under fire today after performing at Penn State last night! It wasn’t necessarily his performance that has people upset but rather what he tweeted to fans:

Despite all that is occuring on campus...I cannot wait to be part of the GREATNESS that is Penn State tmrw...rest well my friends.

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Drake went on to tell Penn State students “Be proud you go to this motherf*king school. You’re perfect.” SERIOUSLY?

The video below shows him performing for the packed arena…

Most folks reading BMS know Penn State is facing serious criticism after one of its coaches was arrested for allegedly abusing at least eight young boys over a period of more than ten years and many were AFRICAN AMERICAN boys!

So the school was happy to welcome Drake on campus to lighten students’ spirits. The school’s website posted a message announcing that “Drake will be helping Penn State heal tonight!” The arena’s marketing and public relations director, Bernie Punt said that Drake’s message on Twitter came at exactly the right moment and had precisely the right tone, leading management to decide that its own message to the Penn State community should build on that.

“That was the word we needed to get out,” Mr. Punt, himself a Penn State graduate, said. “A lot of the students are in something almost like mourning, and that’s why we use that word ‘healing.’ This can be a diversion, in a good way, a positive way, for a couple of hours for these students, and that’s why I think it’s terrific that Drake was able to immediately communicate that raw, unedited emotion. It was perfect.”

Meanwhile the african american mother of the boy who triggered the investigation into Jerry Sandusky’s alleged child sex assaults is speaking out! She says that during the years of abuse the boy suffered he felt he didn’t have the power to say no to the former Penn State football coach.

Speaking exclusively with George Stephanopoulos on ABC News’ “Good Morning America” the mother of the boy, who is referred to in court papers as Victim 1, describes how she learned of the abuse and how her son lived in fear of coming forward to implicate a football coaching legend.

“I had said, ‘You know, maybe we should have come to this conclusion earlier — you should have told me,’” the mother, whose name is being withheld, said she told her son. “He was like, ‘Well, I didn’t know what to do … you just can’t tell Jerry no.’”

Sandusky, now 67, would often have the boy stay at his home after they met when he was 11 in 2005 through the Second Mile program, which the coach founded for at-risk youth. According to the grand jury investigation, Sandusky “indecently fondled Victim 1 on a number of occasions, performed oral sex on Victim 1 on a number of occasions and had Victim 1 perform oral sex on him on at least one occasion.”

In the interview (she’s blurred to protect her identity) , the boy’s mother discusses how she gradually became aware of the abuse her son was suffering at Sandusky’s hands. Her boy would act out violently to intentionally become grounded and avoid seeing Sandusky, she says, and at one point he came to her saying he wanted to know how to look up information on sex offenders.

“[I] proceeded to ask him if there was something he needed to tell me, if there was something going on … it wasn’t ’til a month later when he indicated he was uncomfortable with leaving the school with him, and [Sandusky] pulling him out of classes at school,” she said.

According to the grand jury presentment that led to Sandusky’s arrest last week on 40 counts of molesting 8 boys over a 15-year period, the coach had unfettered access to the Clinton County high school attended by Victim 1. Sandusky, who volunteered at the school’s varsity football program, would often have unmonitored meetings with the boy. On one occasion a school wrestling coach witnessed inappropriate touching between the two in a secluded weight room, according to the grand jury presentment.

“I think if he had any inclination of this, he may have done what he legally needed to do, but there’s got to be some moral bearing, in my opinion. Yes, they all needed to be gone,” she said. “The people that hid this need to pay for their actions. They allowed this to happen to a lot of kids.”

Though court records indicate that the boy’s mother placed one call to Sandusky’s cell phone between January 2008 and July 2009 — after she learned of his alleged abuse — she told ABC News that she never confronted him.

“The amount of anger that I feel is probably not a good thing, and I’ve kept my distance. At one point I thought I’d just like to ask him why, why he did this, why he used all these kids and this charity,” she said, adding that she believes that the abuse goes far beyond the eight boys that have been identified in the grand jury report as Sandusky’s victims.

“I think there’s other kids out there, and probably adults at this time. I hope they’re brave enough to come forward and stand with us to help for the children … There’s so many years that he was involved in this organization, and so many years that he had access to these children, and I don’t believe that it stops at eight,” she said.

Her son, she said, does not like to talk openly about what happened — even with her, though she says their relationship is close. He is a brave kid, she says, and while he wishes the best for Penn State, he is very concerned about this sort of abuse not happening to other children.

“He’s doing ok, he’s handling it. He’s kind of relieved that [Sandusky] was charged finally … It’s kind of overwhelming for all of us. We expected it would get big, but we never expected it would be this bad, and so many people covering it up,” she said.

“He’s a brave kid,” she added. “And he’ll do whatever it takes to make sure this doesn’t happen again.”
As for her, she wants Sandusky to pay for his alleged crimes.

“I want justice. I want him to be locked up,” she said. “There’s no help for someone who does this. Not like this. He needs to be put away. He needs to be put away for a long time.”

SCOOP: ABC NEWS

Do you think Drake should’ve cancelled his show in light of what’s happened?

What do you think? What should happen to ALL involved? Do you think the mom should sue?