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Rapper ... pulls out of Detroit music fest after learning white[s] pay a higher ticket price
MSN ^ | July 7 2019 | Tanya Edwards

Posted on 07/07/2019 8:35:34 PM PDT by rintintin

Detroit-based rapper Tiny Jag pulled out of a Detroit, MI music festival this week after she learned that white concert-goers would be charged a higher price than people of color.

Jag, also known as Jillian Graham, told the Detroit Metro Times that she found out about AfroFuture Fest's pay model when a white friend reached out to her and sent her a screenshot via Instagram that outlined the pay difference. The early bird POC ("people of color") ticket was $10 while the early bird "non-POC" ticket cost $20.

"I was immediately enraged just because I am biracial," Graham told the Metro Times. "I have family members that would have, under those circumstances, been subjected to something that I would not ever want them to be in ... especially not because of anything that I have going on."

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: localnews; yesw9
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1 posted on 07/07/2019 8:35:34 PM PDT by rintintin
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To: rintintin

Liberals always become what the pretend to hate.


2 posted on 07/07/2019 8:37:34 PM PDT by aimhigh (THIS is His commandment . . . . 1 John 3:23)
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To: rintintin

You couldn’t pay me to go to a hip hop “ concert”.


3 posted on 07/07/2019 8:39:27 PM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: rintintin

That’s cool.

BTW, we’re all people of color really... even albinos


4 posted on 07/07/2019 8:40:15 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: rintintin

Ya’ll white peeples need to pony up and gimme dem reparations and s—t! Gotta represent in this muthaf-—a!


5 posted on 07/07/2019 8:41:46 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Isn't it funny that the very people who scream "My body, my choice" wants a say in your healthcare?)
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To: Gene Eric
BTW, we’re all people of color really... even albinos

I'm probably 1/256 Native American.

That's more than Fauxahontas can say.

6 posted on 07/07/2019 8:43:28 PM PDT by lightman (Byzantine Troparia: The "praise choruses" of antiquity.)
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To: rintintin

Thank you, Tiny Jag!
It’s all about equality, right?
You’re a voice for equality, Tiny Jag.


7 posted on 07/07/2019 8:43:57 PM PDT by mozarky2 (Ya never stand so tall as when ya stoop to stomp a statist...)
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To: rintintin

When buses are used for transport, the whites know to sit at the back and keep mouths shut.


8 posted on 07/07/2019 8:44:19 PM PDT by Mark (Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? -Homer Simpson)
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To: lightman

Yup. But she is 100% FOS


9 posted on 07/07/2019 8:46:04 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: rintintin

Using the affirmative action bake sale pricing model I see.


10 posted on 07/07/2019 8:47:32 PM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: rintintin

If it was the other way, there’d be hundreds of federal lawsuits filed, with thousands of ‘victims.’

But it’s okay, they’re doing it for ‘equality’


11 posted on 07/07/2019 8:48:21 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: rintintin
Very little on her as "Tiny Jag" on the net. Found this as her real name is Jillian Graham. .

My thinking is she is doing this to increase her profile, but just a thought. Nice tattoo. Was she in the navy?

12 posted on 07/07/2019 8:54:19 PM PDT by Fungi
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Violation of federal law? Clearly racial discrimination.

Not that anyone at the DOJ has the guts to do anything about it.

Our so called “post racial” president saddled this country with quite a legacy of hate. He primed this country for violence. There will be much blood on his hands.


13 posted on 07/07/2019 8:54:53 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: rintintin

“I’m biracial!”

No problem.

That’ll be $15 please.


14 posted on 07/07/2019 8:56:08 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Trump 2020 - Re-Elect the M*****F***er!)
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To: Fungi
My thinking is she is doing this to increase her profile, but just a thought.

She said why she is doing this - she's biracial and she was offended by the thought that her white family members would be discriminated against by this nonsense (which is almost certainly a violation of the 1964 Civil Rights Act).
15 posted on 07/07/2019 9:21:00 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: rintintin

That’s a civil rights violation. Some lawyer needs to file a class action.


16 posted on 07/07/2019 9:33:25 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: rintintin

Would 1/2 white people like Obama be charged $15?


17 posted on 07/07/2019 9:50:27 PM PDT by Tai_Chung
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To: rintintin

Reparations for whitey!


18 posted on 07/07/2019 10:09:18 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: Uncle Miltie

Since Barack Obama is half white AND an evil rich guy, he gotta pay his fair share— $20.


19 posted on 07/07/2019 10:15:05 PM PDT by mumblypeg
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To: Fungi

Meh. If she says she is offended by the racial discrimination, I am inclined to believe her. To the extent that she gets any publicity from this, it is not going to score her points with 95% of those who listen to rap.


20 posted on 07/07/2019 10:21:10 PM PDT by NRx (A man of honor passes his father's civilization to his son without surrendering it to strangers.)
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