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."
Wait, she’s still alive? Damn shows what I know I thought she died years ago..please please boycott California too, pretty please
Unless you are over 50, no one would know who she is anyway.
Okay.
The other 49 states are now saying “What about us?”
Is Liberace’s ghost also boycotting Florida?
As did American Samoa, Puerto Rico, the Philippines and Peru.
I hope these performers who are pulling this publicity stunt have to pay through the nose on their breech of contract clauses.
I thought you were talking about the little hairy guy from “Land of the Lost”.
Lucky Florida
Now, however, she is on The List, which is the list of people I will no longer pay money to see because they were just too stupid to shut up and sing.
She recorded the amazing “Through the Fire” written by the GREAT David Foster.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QUwDBF53bc
Other than that, she’s just another racist idiot.
I feel for her
There sure are a lot of washed up celebrities using Trayvon’s blood to breath new life into their long-dead careers.
The only folks that would go see Chaka Kahn are, well, lets say...not white hispanics.
How come these celebrities only hurt the ones they love?
Judging by some recent pictures, Chaka should start by boycotting all those All-you-can-eat buffets first.
Could she do me a favor, and expand her boycott to the entire Western Hemisphere?
Is she related to Jenjis?
This fool knows as much about the Zimmerman case as THE FOREIGNER knows about business. If she is so ignorant 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.
Considering that Martin was kneeling on top of Zimmerman and pounding on him, it would be more accurate to say that he was gunned up by Zimmerman.
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