Chris Brown, the twenty-two year old rapper and singer, performed tonight at the 2012 Grammy Awards just three short years after beating his girlfriend so badly she had to go to the hospital.

Sasha Pasulka of <a href="http://hellogiggles.com/im-not-okay-with-chris-brown-performing-at-the-grammys-and-im-not-sure-why-you-are" target="_blank">HelloGiggles.com</a>, speaks of the desparity between amount of outcry over the Komen/Planned Parenthood situation compared to the Chris Brown performance:
<blockquote>We were so mad when the Komen Foundation pulled its funding for breast cancer screenings at Planned Parenthood. “This is not fair,” we shouted. “This is not fair to women, and this is not fair to the women who don’t have a voice, and we will not allow it.” We shouted it so loudly that Komen reversed its decision in three days. [...] <strong>Does domestic violence have a less sophisticated PR machine than Chris Brown does?</strong></blockquote>
I believe in giving people second chances, but Ken Ehrlich, producer of the Grammy award, released <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2012/02/grammy-exec-producer-says-its-time-chris-brown-returned/" target="_blank">this statement</a>, showing that management doesn't have a clue:
<blockquote>We’re glad to have him back. I think people deserve a second chance, you know. If you’ll note, he has not been on the Grammys for the past few years and it may have taken us a while to kind of get over the fact that <strong>we were the victim of what happened.</strong></blockquote>
Sasha Pasulka makes a good point later in her post when she says that she thinks Rihanna wants the whole situation to be done and over with, seeing as she may not want to be the new face of domestic violence or have anyone take pity on her.

Will Weaton posted <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/wilw/status/168914212628856833" target="_blank">a poignant tweet</a> about the situation:
<blockquote>We don't care if you beat a woman so severely you put her in the hospital! We're the #GRAMMYs!</blockquote>
There have been <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/horrible-reactions-to-chris-brown-at-the-grammys" target="_blank">horrifying reactions</a> to the performance, including some women saying things like "Chris Brown, you can beat me all you want."

What do you think? Is it appropriate for Chris Brown to be performing so soon after his girlfriend had to go to the hospital because he beat her so badly? Are the Grammys setting a bad example or are they not responsible? Do you think that it is time to give Chris Brown a second chance?
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