Posted on 07/31/2013 12:03:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Chaka Khan has joined fellow performers in the boycott of Florida, as a show of solidarity against the not guilty verdict handed down to George Zimmerman earlier in the month.
Khan recorded a song in honor of Trayvon Martin, who was gunned down by Zimmerman last February. In a Huffington Post interview, the legendary songstress revealed that she, like Stevie Wonder, is shunning the Sunshine State. "I am boycotting Florida," she said. "I had a booking there last week and I canceled it."
However, if a gig in the state involves paying homage to Martin, she won't turn her back on the slain teen. "If any tributes come up I'll do it. Absolutely."
Zimmerman's acquittal of second-degree murder was "a travesty" according to Khan, and more proof that "racism is still very much alive and well" in America. "It has gone to more of a cerebral state. But it's alive and well. The new slavery is keeping Black men in jail."
A native of Chicago, the "Through the Fire" singer went on to address gun violence in the Windy City. Last year, the Chi surpassed 500 homicides and clocked more than 40 in the first month of 2013 for a record-breaking 31 days of bloodshed. "It's insane," Khan continued. "These kids are using gangs as a rite of passage. If we were still living in villages it would be very different."
She also publicized an anti-violence rally to be helmed by the Rev. Jesse Jackson in Chicago this weekend.
In between career commitments (her new album, The iKhan Project, will be out sometime this year), Khan likes to make time for activism and believes others should follow suit. "Everyone should be of service in some way. There's a reason for being here. We're here fundamentally on this planet right now to be of assistance to one another."
This fool knows as much about the Zimmerman case as THE FOREIGNER knows about business. If she is such an ignorant drone to boycott over a KANGAROO COURT trial that failed to convict on false charges, that were only filed to satisfy the RACIST SHARKS swimming in the for kill, I wouldn’t go see her if she sent free tickets and it was across the street.
Oh this is the best post of the day!!! I just sprayed coffee everywhere!!
The 1980’s called and they want Chaka Khan back!!!
Am I supposed to know who she is?
“Am I supposed to know who she is?”
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I thought I was probably the only one.:-)
Florida must be devastated.
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In other news I hear that 38 Special will be boycotting New York City.
“These kids are using gangs as a rite of passage. If we were still living in villages it would be very different.”
That’s for sure, Chaka, they would be wearing colorful beads and bones in their noses, praying they don’t starve before they turn seventeen.
Never heard of her so guess I do not need to boycott whatever she does.
Sorry, I am over 50 and have never heard of her.
Or any where else!!! Her audiences are measured I the dozens!!
I saw Chaka Khan as an opening act for Marvin Gaye at the LA Forum in 1974. 1974.
Maybe playing bingo night at The Villages is the only place she can find a crowd that remembers her.
And many s**** were not given.
“Azerbaijan? What is that? I can’t
pronounce this! Chaka Khan! Chaka Khan!”
— Sharon Stone, in Turkey
Wasn’t she one of the ones who die when Captain Kirk exiles Khan and the remaining crew of the Botany Bay on the planet Ceti Alpha V?
She was a singer back during the 70’s
When was that picture taken-—1978?
LOL
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