Are the Charges Against P Diddy a Sign of Coming Social Change?
I was elated to hear the recent announcement of major racketeering and sex trafficking charges against rapper ‘P Diddy.’ The scandal represents yet another news story that fits a pop culture trend that coincided my uprising as a blogger and political activist back in 2017-2018. With the P Diddy indictment we see that a high-level celebrity or public figure is once again at the center of a major sex trafficking scandal. This new prosecution, yet again, puts a damper on the public’s starry-eyed delusions that we live in a ‘just world’ and that people with power and success are the good guys and that they acquired their wealth and power through merit. Contrary to popular belief, the world is not always just. The prosecution of P Diddy and others proves that good things really do happen to bad people, and conversely, that bad things really do happen to good people. Does the current prosecution mark a shift in the balance of power through increasing public recognition of the e