Jennifer Holliday Describes Vicious Backlash To Now-Canceled Plans For Inaugural Performance

[DigitalDrifter]

She finally had to cave.

“They were calling me coon, calling me house n***er, calling me Aunt Jemima, calling me all kinds of names and asking me to kill myself,” the Grammy and Tony-winning singer told MSNBC’s Joy Reid on this morning’s AM Joy. “And that was from the black community.”


“I wanted to sing for America and sing for the people.”

An angry and shaken Jennifer Holliday said she was called “Aunt Jemima” and worse by some African Americans in the online response to her now-canceled plans to perform for Donald Trump’s pre-inaugural celebration. (See the video below).



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“They were calling me coon, calling me house n***er, calling me Aunt Jemima, calling me all kinds of names and asking me to kill myself,” the Grammy and Tony-winning singer told MSNBC’s Joy Reid on this morning’s AM Joy. “And that was from the black community.”

Yesterday, Holliday reversed her decision to perform at Trump’s “Make America Great Again! Welcome Celebration” concert January 19 at the Lincoln Memorial, citing an online backlash from the LGBT community. In an open letter, she apologized to her gay fans for the “lapse of judgement.”

Asked why the LGBT response swayed her to cancel – as opposed to gender and race issues – Holliday said, “All the tweets that I read from the African American community were directed directly at me. The tweets from the gay community took the issues and did not call me names. Also they have been a faithful community since Dreamgirls to me, and fed me even when the church people didn’t feed me.”

Also during the brief interview, when asked about Trump’s behavior toward woman and black people, Holliday told Reid “it did not give me pause, and I know people think that’s strange, but it used to be where an artist can be an artist, and we sang.”

Holliday also said Trump’s team did not “trick” her into accepting the invitation. “I wanted to sing for America and sing for the people.” She said she assumed the Trump team invited her because of her past performances for presidents Ronald Reagan, the Bushes and Bill Clinton. (“I never performed for President Obama,” she explained. “I never was invited.”)

“Maybe they were looking for, maybe, African Americans who have been friendly with Republicans,” Holliday speculated about the Trump invitation.

In yesterday’s open letter, Holliday, who won a 1982 Tony Award for her performance as Effie White in Dreamgirls and recently returned to Broadway in this season’s revival of The Color Purple, pledged to stand by her LGBT fans.

Jennifer Holliday Describes Vicious Backlash To Now-Canceled Plans For Inaugural Performance

 

[Manonthestreet]

Caving won't help her........They may be quiet now but they will now set out to ruin her.

 

[MarathonMike]

Silencing freedom of expression is un-American. Liberals particularly militant Black Liberals should be ashamed. Wake up and get your head right.

 

[Mac1958]

Hey, they're just being tolerant.

 

[BlueGin]

She finally had to cave.

“They were calling me coon, calling me house n***er, calling me Aunt Jemima, calling me all kinds of names and asking me to kill myself,” the Grammy and Tony-winning singer told MSNBC’s Joy Reid on this morning’s AM Joy. “And that was from the black community.”


“I wanted to sing for America and sing for the people.”

An angry and shaken Jennifer Holliday said she was called “Aunt Jemima” and worse by some African Americans in the online response to her now-canceled plans to perform for Donald Trump’s pre-inaugural celebration. (See the video below).



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“They were calling me coon, calling me house n***er, calling me Aunt Jemima, calling me all kinds of names and asking me to kill myself,” the Grammy and Tony-winning singer told MSNBC’s Joy Reid on this morning’s AM Joy. “And that was from the black community.”

Yesterday, Holliday reversed her decision to perform at Trump’s “Make America Great Again! Welcome Celebration” concert January 19 at the Lincoln Memorial, citing an online backlash from the LGBT community. In an open letter, she apologized to her gay fans for the “lapse of judgement.”

Asked why the LGBT response swayed her to cancel – as opposed to gender and race issues – Holliday said, “All the tweets that I read from the African American community were directed directly at me. The tweets from the gay community took the issues and did not call me names. Also they have been a faithful community since Dreamgirls to me, and fed me even when the church people didn’t feed me.”

Also during the brief interview, when asked about Trump’s behavior toward woman and black people, Holliday told Reid “it did not give me pause, and I know people think that’s strange, but it used to be where an artist can be an artist, and we sang.”

Holliday also said Trump’s team did not “trick” her into accepting the invitation. “I wanted to sing for America and sing for the people.” She said she assumed the Trump team invited her because of her past performances for presidents Ronald Reagan, the Bushes and Bill Clinton. (“I never performed for President Obama,” she explained. “I never was invited.”)

“Maybe they were looking for, maybe, African Americans who have been friendly with Republicans,” Holliday speculated about the Trump invitation.

In yesterday’s open letter, Holliday, who won a 1982 Tony Award for her performance as Effie White in Dreamgirls and recently returned to Broadway in this season’s revival of The Color Purple, pledged to stand by her LGBT fans.

Jennifer Holliday Describes Vicious Backlash To Now-Canceled Plans For Inaugural Performance

That's what happens when democrats think you are leaving their plantation.

 

[martybegan]

Caving won't help her........They may be quiet now but they will now set out to ruin her.

I wish she would stand up, but sometimes it's asking too much for someone to do so.

Hopefully more and more people will have the courage to stand up. Problem is once people do, these idiots may actually cross over into violence.

 

[martybegan]

Hey, they're just being tolerant.

No, they are not tolerating intolerance.

How can you be so intolerant?

 

[Blackrook]

Caving won't help her........They may be quiet now but they will now set out to ruin her.

I wish she would stand up, but sometimes it's asking too much for someone to do so.

Hopefully more and more people will have the courage to stand up. Problem is once people do, these idiots may actually cross over into violence.

They have already crossed over into violence many times.

 

[tigerred59]

She finally had to cave.

“They were calling me coon, calling me house n***er, calling me Aunt Jemima, calling me all kinds of names and asking me to kill myself,” the Grammy and Tony-winning singer told MSNBC’s Joy Reid on this morning’s AM Joy. “And that was from the black community.”


“I wanted to sing for America and sing for the people.”

An angry and shaken Jennifer Holliday said she was called “Aunt Jemima” and worse by some African Americans in the online response to her now-canceled plans to perform for Donald Trump’s pre-inaugural celebration. (See the video below).



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“They were calling me coon, calling me house n***er, calling me Aunt Jemima, calling me all kinds of names and asking me to kill myself,” the Grammy and Tony-winning singer told MSNBC’s Joy Reid on this morning’s AM Joy. “And that was from the black community.”

Yesterday, Holliday reversed her decision to perform at Trump’s “Make America Great Again! Welcome Celebration” concert January 19 at the Lincoln Memorial, citing an online backlash from the LGBT community. In an open letter, she apologized to her gay fans for the “lapse of judgement.”

Asked why the LGBT response swayed her to cancel – as opposed to gender and race issues – Holliday said, “All the tweets that I read from the African American community were directed directly at me. The tweets from the gay community took the issues and did not call me names. Also they have been a faithful community since Dreamgirls to me, and fed me even when the church people didn’t feed me.”

Also during the brief interview, when asked about Trump’s behavior toward woman and black people, Holliday told Reid “it did not give me pause, and I know people think that’s strange, but it used to be where an artist can be an artist, and we sang.”

Holliday also said Trump’s team did not “trick” her into accepting the invitation. “I wanted to sing for America and sing for the people.” She said she assumed the Trump team invited her because of her past performances for presidents Ronald Reagan, the Bushes and Bill Clinton. (“I never performed for President Obama,” she explained. “I never was invited.”)

“Maybe they were looking for, maybe, African Americans who have been friendly with Republicans,” Holliday speculated about the Trump invitation.

In yesterday’s open letter, Holliday, who won a 1982 Tony Award for her performance as Effie White in Dreamgirls and recently returned to Broadway in this season’s revival of The Color Purple, pledged to stand by her LGBT fans.

Jennifer Holliday Describes Vicious Backlash To Now-Canceled Plans For Inaugural Performance

Trump and its supporters are not showing up at her shows.....its the very people that attacked her. Its their coins, their dollars, their support that's keeping this bitch off the pole and on stage...now either get with their wishes or sing for the clown....no one is forcing this bitch not to sing.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Hey, they're just being tolerant.

She knows what would have happened to her had she went ahead and performed. They would have ruined her.

 

[tigerred59]

Hey, they're just being tolerant.

She knows what would have happened to her had she went ahead and performed. They would have ruined her.

Yeah, kinda like the Dixie Chics, eh?

 

[Moonglow]

Never heard of her...

 

[Roudy]

Liberalism is a mental disorder.

 

[JimBowie1958]

It's just the Marxist Left doing the mean evil shit that left wing Marxists do.

 

[Blackrook]

The Communists are using all this anger against Trump to stir up trouble, and there will definitely be property destruction and violence on Inauguration Day.

 

[JimBowie1958]

The Communists are using all this anger against Trump to stir up trouble, and there will definitely be property destruction and violence on Inauguration Day.

I dont think that they call themselves communists any more outside of Red China and SE Asia.

Now I think the phrase used is "Social Justice".

 

[MarathonMike]

Caving won't help her........They may be quiet now but they will now set out to ruin her.

I wish she would stand up, but sometimes it's asking too much for someone to do so.

Hopefully more and more people will have the courage to stand up. Problem is once people do, these idiots may actually cross over into violence.

I agree, she probably isn't super wealthy and needs to keep her career going, so I can't blame her.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Hey, they're just being tolerant.

She knows what would have happened to her had she went ahead and performed. They would have ruined her.

They didn't want to ruin her. They want to kill her.

 

[rdean]

She finally had to cave.

“They were calling me coon, calling me house n***er, calling me Aunt Jemima, calling me all kinds of names and asking me to kill myself,” the Grammy and Tony-winning singer told MSNBC’s Joy Reid on this morning’s AM Joy. “And that was from the black community.”


“I wanted to sing for America and sing for the people.”

An angry and shaken Jennifer Holliday said she was called “Aunt Jemima” and worse by some African Americans in the online response to her now-canceled plans to perform for Donald Trump’s pre-inaugural celebration. (See the video below).



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“They were calling me coon, calling me house n***er, calling me Aunt Jemima, calling me all kinds of names and asking me to kill myself,” the Grammy and Tony-winning singer told MSNBC’s Joy Reid on this morning’s AM Joy. “And that was from the black community.”

Yesterday, Holliday reversed her decision to perform at Trump’s “Make America Great Again! Welcome Celebration” concert January 19 at the Lincoln Memorial, citing an online backlash from the LGBT community. In an open letter, she apologized to her gay fans for the “lapse of judgement.”

Asked why the LGBT response swayed her to cancel – as opposed to gender and race issues – Holliday said, “All the tweets that I read from the African American community were directed directly at me. The tweets from the gay community took the issues and did not call me names. Also they have been a faithful community since Dreamgirls to me, and fed me even when the church people didn’t feed me.”

Also during the brief interview, when asked about Trump’s behavior toward woman and black people, Holliday told Reid “it did not give me pause, and I know people think that’s strange, but it used to be where an artist can be an artist, and we sang.”

Holliday also said Trump’s team did not “trick” her into accepting the invitation. “I wanted to sing for America and sing for the people.” She said she assumed the Trump team invited her because of her past performances for presidents Ronald Reagan, the Bushes and Bill Clinton. (“I never performed for President Obama,” she explained. “I never was invited.”)

“Maybe they were looking for, maybe, African Americans who have been friendly with Republicans,” Holliday speculated about the Trump invitation.

In yesterday’s open letter, Holliday, who won a 1982 Tony Award for her performance as Effie White in Dreamgirls and recently returned to Broadway in this season’s revival of The Color Purple, pledged to stand by her LGBT fans.

Jennifer Holliday Describes Vicious Backlash To Now-Canceled Plans For Inaugural Performance

I watched the Joy Reid/Jennifer Holiday interview this morning and it was revealing.

Jennifer said she sang for every president since Reagan except Obama because he never invited her. That other blacks called her Aunt Jemima and said terrible things, but that was NOT the reason she decided not to sing.

She said gays told her about what Pence did in his state to attack gays. You could fire them. You could kick them out of rental houses or apartments. You could refuse to serve them at restaurants. All you had to say was they bothered your religious sensibilities.

She said that was too much. She said gays made her a star and they have always supported her career and she felt she owed them to much to turn her back on them now.

And that was why she decided not to sing.

So you are right. It was intolerance. Only it was Republican intolerance.

And you know how Republicans hate gays. That can't be denied.

 

[Papageorgio]

The Regressive Left, they continue to bully people that don't agree with their politics. They want to silence their opposition.