****Chrisette Michele Reportedly Will Perform At Trump's Inauguration****
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Steve Harvey And Whoever Else Can Hang With Trump, And We Can Call Them Out For It
We shared with you Jennifer Holliday’s appearance on The View yesterday. During her time at the table, she opened up about the backlash she received over news that she would perform at Donald Trump’s inauguration. She said that while members of the LGBTQ community were the ones who persuaded her to back out of the performance after voicing their angst, it was the pushback from Black folks that really disappointed her:
At first, I said, ‘Are these White people messing with me?’ And I would push the button to see who was calling me because your face is there. And I said, ‘Oh my God these are Black people calling me this.’ And they were saying I should kill myself or someone should kill me. All over singing a song! I said, ‘I just wanted to sang!’ I don’t really understand.
Steve Harvey felt that same sort of strong pushback from the community when he decided to take a meeting with the president-elect. The anger was so strong that according to TheJasmineBrand, he said his feelings were hurt:
On a personal note, a lot of y’all hurt me. I didn’t expect the backlash to be so fierce. I also understand if I’m going to keep getting stabbed at, at least while you’re stabbing me, you should understand my intent. I’m from the hood. I’ve been putting in the work for years. I care about these inner cities because that’s where I’m from.
And just today, Twitter had a field day dragging singer Chrisette Michele’s name. A report surfaced that said she is indeed performing at the inauguration, but wanted to keep it a secret to avoid backlash. Well, if it’s true, it’s no longer a secret.
According to the New York Daily News, her deal was put together a week ago:
Our insiders say that inauguration organizers first reached out to Michele’s team asking her to perform the song “Intentional” with singers Travis Greene, Jonathan McReynolds, and Tye Tribbett — the same trio with whom she did that tune on BET’s “Celebration of Gospel” broadcast one year ago. We’re told that plan fell apart when at least two of those three singers declined the offer. But, according to our sources, Michelle agreed to sing for the Prez so long as she could perform an R&B set.
Even Questlove had to get on Twitter and say that he would “pay Chrisette to NOT perform.”
It’s unclear what Michele’s response will be to the backlash, but if it’s anything like Harvey and Holliday’s, she will likely try and blame President Obama. Both individuals used as an excuse a popular line from POTUS’s farewell address. He encouraged people to get from behind the computer and try and have real conversations with those we may not agree with. As Holliday put it, “I thought that we had instructions from the Obamas and the Clintons that it was a go-ahead.” And according to Harvey, “When I listened to President Obama’s final speech in Chicago one of the things that stuck in my mind was when he told people to get out from behind our computers and get involved. I took that to mean, get from behind the microphone.”
But who are they kidding? This is all about money and making Donald Trump look good at all costs — including their credibility.
What conversation has Holliday actually had with Donald Trump about affecting change? The only talking she’s done has been with event organizers who were going to cut the check for her performance. And honestly, how much influence does Harvey really think he has on politics just because he received a call from the president-elect? Much respect to him for his work in the community, but no, just no.
As Marc Lamont Hill pointed out this week, why is it that the only people he wants to have a conversation with happen to be Black celebrities? Where are the Black members of Congress? Where are the activists? Where are the real change agents? Hell, where is another meeting with President Obama?
Whoops! I forgot that he respects celebrities more than he does our current commander in chief.
Parading around Harvey, Kanye, Jim Brown, Martin Luther King’s son (on MLK day to boot) and anyone else in front of cameras as if they truly represent the people in the cities and places he has such a negatively skewed viewpoint on is just patronizing at this point. It’s pure puppetry. Excuse the rest of us if we want no parts.
Still, all the aforementioned players, whether they’re performing for him on stage or at Trump Towers, have the right and freedom to do what they want. But we the (Black) people have every right to feel betrayed.
That is not to say that I condone anyone offering up death threats or being ugly. People can share their opinion without being insufferable. But then again, Donald Trump has been the leader of the insufferable, so until he owns up to his part in the harsh tone of discourse, the chances of it ceasing are little.
However, the idea that individuals think they can play us and make us believe they wanted to see Trump or sing for him to enact change instead of just making some, is ridiculous.
Not to mention that you can’t tell we the (Black) people that we should accept and give Trump a chance when he just called storied civil rights activist and congressman John Lewis “all talk” for saying Trump is an “illegitimate president.” This from the man who spent years questioning the legitimacy of Obama’s presidency, only to not even have the decency to apologize for helping to start the birther movement when called out about it.
He’s not any ol’ candidate that we should sing kumbaya around and move on. Hell, at this point, I would give anything for Mitt Romney and John McCain to have ran in his place. He’s genuinely a terrible person, and to perform for him comes off as aligning yourself with him. It gives the impression that you support his distressing behavior. He used White fear and racism to get elected and thinks that dealing with serious issues over coffee with musicians and athletes (but beefing with the intelligence community) is the way to go.
He is a hate monger who only sees us, “The Blacks,” in one way: as the downtrodden falling apart in crime infested “inner cities.” He knows nothing about us, cares nothing about us, and only acknowledges Black people through famous folks who share our skin. Anyone who meets with him and doesn’t call that out, only to say they don’t understand why they would receive backlash, just enjoys being naïve. If you don’t meet with him and bring along people who can truly affect change, you don’t get it. If you meet with him and stand and smirk in front of cameras like a Cheshire cat and then wonder why you’re feeling the heat, you really don’t get it. If you hide the fact that you signed up for inauguration commitments and then act as though you don’t understand why people would be disappointed in you, you truly don’t get it. Own up to your decisions.
Steve Harvey And Whoever Else Can Hang With Trump, And We Can Call Them Out For It
We shared with you Jennifer Holliday’s appearance on The View yesterday. During her time at the table, she opened up about the backlash she received over news that she would perform at Donald Trump’s inauguration. She said that while members of the LGBTQ community were the ones who persuaded her to back out of the performance after voicing their angst, it was the pushback from Black folks that really disappointed her:
At first, I said, ‘Are these White people messing with me?’ And I would push the button to see who was calling me because your face is there. And I said, ‘Oh my God these are Black people calling me this.’ And they were saying I should kill myself or someone should kill me. All over singing a song! I said, ‘I just wanted to sang!’ I don’t really understand.
Steve Harvey felt that same sort of strong pushback from the community when he decided to take a meeting with the president-elect. The anger was so strong that according to TheJasmineBrand, he said his feelings were hurt:
On a personal note, a lot of y’all hurt me. I didn’t expect the backlash to be so fierce. I also understand if I’m going to keep getting stabbed at, at least while you’re stabbing me, you should understand my intent. I’m from the hood. I’ve been putting in the work for years. I care about these inner cities because that’s where I’m from.
And just today, Twitter had a field day dragging singer Chrisette Michele’s name. A report surfaced that said she is indeed performing at the inauguration, but wanted to keep it a secret to avoid backlash. Well, if it’s true, it’s no longer a secret.
According to the New York Daily News, her deal was put together a week ago:
Our insiders say that inauguration organizers first reached out to Michele’s team asking her to perform the song “Intentional” with singers Travis Greene, Jonathan McReynolds, and Tye Tribbett — the same trio with whom she did that tune on BET’s “Celebration of Gospel” broadcast one year ago. We’re told that plan fell apart when at least two of those three singers declined the offer. But, according to our sources, Michelle agreed to sing for the Prez so long as she could perform an R&B set.
Even Questlove had to get on Twitter and say that he would “pay Chrisette to NOT perform.”
It’s unclear what Michele’s response will be to the backlash, but if it’s anything like Harvey and Holliday’s, she will likely try and blame President Obama. Both individuals used as an excuse a popular line from POTUS’s farewell address. He encouraged people to get from behind the computer and try and have real conversations with those we may not agree with. As Holliday put it, “I thought that we had instructions from the Obamas and the Clintons that it was a go-ahead.” And according to Harvey, “When I listened to President Obama’s final speech in Chicago one of the things that stuck in my mind was when he told people to get out from behind our computers and get involved. I took that to mean, get from behind the microphone.”
But who are they kidding? This is all about money and making Donald Trump look good at all costs — including their credibility.
What conversation has Holliday actually had with Donald Trump about affecting change? The only talking she’s done has been with event organizers who were going to cut the check for her performance. And honestly, how much influence does Harvey really think he has on politics just because he received a call from the president-elect? Much respect to him for his work in the community, but no, just no.
As Marc Lamont Hill pointed out this week, why is it that the only people he wants to have a conversation with happen to be Black celebrities? Where are the Black members of Congress? Where are the activists? Where are the real change agents? Hell, where is another meeting with President Obama?
Whoops! I forgot that he respects celebrities more than he does our current commander in chief.
Parading around Harvey, Kanye, Jim Brown, Martin Luther King’s son (on MLK day to boot) and anyone else in front of cameras as if they truly represent the people in the cities and places he has such a negatively skewed viewpoint on is just patronizing at this point. It’s pure puppetry. Excuse the rest of us if we want no parts.
Still, all the aforementioned players, whether they’re performing for him on stage or at Trump Towers, have the right and freedom to do what they want. But we the (Black) people have every right to feel betrayed.
That is not to say that I condone anyone offering up death threats or being ugly. People can share their opinion without being insufferable. But then again, Donald Trump has been the leader of the insufferable, so until he owns up to his part in the harsh tone of discourse, the chances of it ceasing are little.
However, the idea that individuals think they can play us and make us believe they wanted to see Trump or sing for him to enact change instead of just making some, is ridiculous.
Not to mention that you can’t tell we the (Black) people that we should accept and give Trump a chance when he just called storied civil rights activist and congressman John Lewis “all talk” for saying Trump is an “illegitimate president.” This from the man who spent years questioning the legitimacy of Obama’s presidency, only to not even have the decency to apologize for helping to start the birther movement when called out about it.
He’s not any ol’ candidate that we should sing kumbaya around and move on. Hell, at this point, I would give anything for Mitt Romney and John McCain to have ran in his place. He’s genuinely a terrible person, and to perform for him comes off as aligning yourself with him. It gives the impression that you support his distressing behavior. He used White fear and racism to get elected and thinks that dealing with serious issues over coffee with musicians and athletes (but beefing with the intelligence community) is the way to go.
He is a hate monger who only sees us, “The Blacks,” in one way: as the downtrodden falling apart in crime infested “inner cities.” He knows nothing about us, cares nothing about us, and only acknowledges Black people through famous folks who share our skin. Anyone who meets with him and doesn’t call that out, only to say they don’t understand why they would receive backlash, just enjoys being naïve. If you don’t meet with him and bring along people who can truly affect change, you don’t get it. If you meet with him and stand and smirk in front of cameras like a Cheshire cat and then wonder why you’re feeling the heat, you really don’t get it. If you hide the fact that you signed up for inauguration commitments and then act as though you don’t understand why people would be disappointed in you, you truly don’t get it. Own up to your decisions.
Bitch stop lying. You stay with a bag of pork rinds and only need a few drops of your sweat to fry four eggs. You piece of shit coon.
He's in denial about his weight, coon achievments and troll status. He cant get too cozy on white dominated boards because they remind him what they think of mulattoes and his parents for making him.
They sorta have to.
I've come to the conclusion that I'm not mad at Chrisette. This isn't Beyonce, or even a B-list entertainer. This is Chrisette Michelle.
Sometimes you do what you gotta do. I told a bitch I love her to get some pussy. Don't mean I loved her. The end justified the means, and I was too young, impatient and ill-equipped to finagle that pussy any other way.
Sad part is, most don't share my sentiments. Chrisette might have to start taking trips to Dubai if she was to keep up appearances.
Sometimes you do what you gotta do. I told a bitch I love her to get some pussy. Don't mean I loved her. The end justified the means, and I was too young, impatient and ill-equipped to finagle that pussy any other way.
Sad part is, most don't share my sentiments. Chrisette might have to start taking trips to Dubai if she was to keep up appearances.
Bitch stop lying. You stay with a bag of pork rinds and only need a few drops of your sweat to fry four eggs. You piece of shit coon.
He's in denial about his weight, coon achievments and troll status. He cant get too cozy on white dominated boards because they remind him what they think of mulattoes and his parents for making him.
I'm sorry but for your fingers to have stretch marks you must be on some morbidly obese shit
The means matter pimp.
I wish people would stop using that quote "ends justify the means" in efforts to insulate themselves from ridicule and/or judgement for some fuck shit they've done or about to do.
People who are fully accountable for their actions, own them completely, or truly don't give a fuck NEVER say that....Only the guilty who can't carry the load of the decisions they made to get to the end....
Of and fuck anyone who says "Only God can judge me". That's some equally cowardly shit.
*two cents*
No reason to explain. Just remember I said it
I feel you, but the weight of one's decisions can, in extreme cases, can cause severe deperession, emotional/psychological breakdowns. They can even drive some to suicide.
Knowing this, I can understand the mental gymnastics that people perform in order to be at peace with a decision they'd otherwise lack the capacity to circumvent their conscience and act on.
Would Trump have gone to Hillary's?
Sorry Chrisette. A turd is a turd. This performance doesn't make you a trailblazer. You don't possess some profound philosophy that no one else "gets". You are not more "woke" than all of us. You're wack as fuck for this. This is on par with Ben Vereen performing in blackface at Ronald Reagan's inauguration - except Trump is worse than Reagan because he stole an election, is an open racist and is filling his cabinet with white supremacists. I hope your reputation and career takes the same hit that Ben Vereen's did that still resonates today. Go on and smear that black greasepaint on your face. Make those lips white and shiny. Practice bucking your eyes and shuffling your feet. Gotta make Marse Trump proud now.
Fuck that shit. No one forced her to make that decision. Fuck her. No indignity in getting a job at a bank to make ends meet if your pockets are lean like that. You can get money back easily; but it's a long way back to redemption when you sell your soul to the devil.
Not the same. It's protocol for former presidents to attend an incoming president's inauguration. Hillary is Bill's wife and is going in that capacity.
You're missing the pattern (past elected Presidents). Trump wouldn't have to because that means he wouldn't have been elected as President.
You want to know why I'm not mad?
Chrisette performing there has no ill affects on us. I'm sure somebody can come up with some abstract, indirect way that this'll have a negative affect on the black community...
....but the fact of the matter is. what I don't fucking like is, we are not close to being as unified as we need to be, but we DEMAND motherfuckers to be in formation when its some shit that rub us the wrong way.
We, as a collective, are too all over the place.
What if she snapped back, 'When everybody else get on code then I will too? "
Everybody would have a damn baby, but she'd be just as justified saying that shit as you would be telling her she shouldn't do it, but don't have shit to offer her but more bedwench or coon insults.
You're right to a degree and I honestly can't speak for her situation.
However, it always seems like people who use those two quotes aren't doing any shit worthy of the quotes or worth 'justifying'. They just doing something 'quick and dirty' when there were other options available.
It's more like "I did that fuck shit so I could do something I really WANTED to do...DONT JUDGE ME!!!", as opposed to "I had no other choice it was going to have to be this or that was never going to happen. Judge me it you want but it is what it is."
It's like Zen: if you have to say "The ends justify the means " or "Only God can judge me" then it probably didn't. A war torn refugee swimming through a river of shit to escape their soul crushing circumstances does not give enough of a fuck about anyone else's judgement or worries about "justifying" anything but a bitch getting shat and pissed on in Dubai feels the need to write a "I'm not a do nothing bitch" manifesto on her Instagram "justifying" her Dookie excursions so she can rock the latest fashion.
IMO, if a person feels they have to preface a situation with those two quotes than the situation wasn't that crucial thus not worthy of the quotes in the first place.
*two cents*
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The same poster who uses youtube videos from nobodies for his "gotcha" moments towards Tariq Nasheed and Hidden Colors is in a thread caping for Chrisette Michelle to perform for Trump cuz "fuck it bills must be paid." Shocking!
This is the same poster who once bragged about letting white women call him the N word. And is attracted to Tomi Lahrens ugly ass.
Excelsior are you going to the inaugaration? Alot of white bitches will be there.
This is the same poster who once bragged about letting white women call him the N word. And is attracted to Tomi Lahrens ugly ass.
Excelsior are you going to the inaugaration? Alot of white bitches will be there.
It gives creedence to the false notion that this unqualified, dangerous, criminal, twitter-addicted traitor to his country deserves the presidency. No one has to come up with anything abstract. He has a rap sheet of anti-black racial discrimination against Black people - including two DOJ lawsuits against him. He wants to implement nationwide stop and frisk. That's enough right there.
A lot of us are holding up Chrisette to scrutiny because she is one of our own, and we expect a higher standard - a deeper awareness of what a bigot and a racist is, born of her living her entire life as a Black woman in the U.S.
People of all races in the entertainment industry are participating in this boycott, because they have eyes and functioning brains to be able to see how wrong this is. It is shameful of Chrisette to perform at this event as an American even before it is shameful of her as a Black woman.
If we can critique Steve Harvey, Stephen A. Smith, Charles Barkley, Stacey Dash or anyone else for their coonery, Chrisette Michele is not exempt. We don't have to be unified as a people on every issue before we can do that. That's nothing but a variation of that "What about black-on-black crime" tactic.
Don't know. However, it is traditional for former presidents (and their wives) to be in attendance at an inauguration of a new president.
Point.IF he last 4 years. This Russia shit ain't going away
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