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Soulful R&B singer Macy Gray might have put her size 12 foot in her mouth when she asked her Facebook fans whether she should follow through with her plans to perform in a series of concerts in Tel Aviv.
Gray was undecided about her tour because of the "disgusting" way the Israeli government treats Palestinians.
But surely she was not prepared for the backlash she received for voicing her opinion, including racial slurs directed toward her and African Americans in general.
Gray posted the following on her Facebook page:
"I'm getting a lot of letters from activists urging/begging me to boycott by NOT performing in protest of Apartheid against the Palestinians," she wrote. "What the Israeli government is doing to the Palestinians is disgusting, but I wana go. I gotta lotta fans there I dont want to cancel on and I don't know how my NOT going changes anything. What do you think? Stay or go?"
In response to her post, she received more than 4,000 highly impassioned responses including those below [comments edited for profanity]:
THe ugly ni**ers are joining the Darfurians entering here. All of you go away. wedontwantyou
Go find whoever is going to shag you you f***ing wh**e. Every piece of garbage opens their c**t on us. muslimit
Another "afro american." Nice name that the ni**ers made for themselves. Max
Who wants you? You look like a monkey. Mikhal
It's really disgusting that Israel is going to see black!!! music. Disgusting. Contaminates your soul. Ayela
Don't come we don't need your ugly fat a** here. Dude
Amidst all the hate, Gray made the decision to go through with her scheduled concerts. Via Twitter she tweeted the following:
"Dear Israel fans. Me and the band will be there in 20 days. Can't wait. See you then. Peace."
Countless entertainers have found themselves under pressure to boycott Israel, because of its heated relations with Palestinians. However, Gray performed in Israel in 2008 and 2009 and also performed in Caesarea in 2000, so she is no stranger to the region.
Other performers have opted to cancel concerts due to the more than six decades of conflict between the rival territories.
Singer Elvis Costello canceled his planned concerts in Israel last summer because of what he called the "grave and complex" sensitivities. Earlier this month, Johnny Depp's wife, French singer and actress Vanessa Paradis, decided not to perform in a concert scheduled to take place on Feb. 10. There was speculation that Paradis, who said her concert clashed with a prior meeting, was in no uncertain terms politically motivated to skip out on the concert date.
Regardless of Macy Gray's feelings on the Israel-Palestine conflict, she recognizes that she is an entertainer and is still going to meet her obligation to the people of that region. She has the right to her opinion and no one's opinion should draw such harsh responses or racial slurs.
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By: michael berg on 1/25/2011 4:39PM
Macy has a right not to perform, however she is ignorant of many facts in that area. Number one, how come she does not perform in the Gaza area. Because they wont let her. Does she know that Isreal the ONLY demoncracy in the middle east where women are equal to men. Does she know that Isreal, at it's own peril, saved the black Etheopian Jews and brought them to Isreal. Is that racist? Does she know that Isreal, in its history has given more land back to the arabs then any other county would. Does she know that the Childrens hospital in Jerulalem treats all children, Arab, Jew, white or black. The arabs and palistinins are their worst own enemies. So, Macy, keep singing and leave politics the the pros.
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By: Jade on 1/25/2011 11:58PM
All your points are ridiculous. The Palestinians should be grateful that the jews gave them back land that wasn't there's to begin with? I think the holocaust was aweful, but you people have evolved to be bullies and simply turned into neonazis. This thuggery is disturbing.
You also react so irrationally to any criticism with accusations of antisemite. It's so juvenile!
I am really disgusted with any bullying and injustice, and today jews are the bullies and the nazis.
STOP IT!
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By: lahelama on 1/27/2011 10:09PM
Given!? Why how incredibly white of you Mike! How do explain forcing a group of people to give up the land they resided on and restrict their movement!?
Racist call black people ni&&ers and there seems to be a growing number of them in Israel (there is a video of young Israelly men and women and a outdoor cafe, saying some pretty f*cked up and racist things about President Obama right after he was elected.
It made me wonder...
So these are the new Nazis, huh?
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By: jeff on 1/27/2011 11:00PM
Michael you are so right on every point.
As for the others who are commenting on you like the smart guy who mentions that a few Israeli kids where calling Obama a n----r makes Israel a racist country, like in the USA no one calls him that, or since some in the USA call him a n----r makes the whole USA racists. LOL
Also, none took land from anyone, no one was physically picked up and thrown out of their homes. Arabs can live in Israel, buy, sell and own land just like any citizen as long as they are willing to pay taxes
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By: Moshe Zuckerman on 11/06/2011 5:02AM
Michael, you sound like a broken record. The democracy in Israel does not extend to minorities. Sephardic Jews are lesser Jews than the Ashkenazi Jews. There is NO tolerance of religions even among the different sects in Israel. Israelis kill Palestinians on daily bases and without any provocation. They are stealing Palestinian land on daily basis. Israelis spit on the face of Christians on daily basis. Israel is a Democracy? My donkey. It is more of an honor among the thieves. Stop your nonsense. There has been close to 100 resolutions in UN that condemns the Zionist and Israeli goverment. There was a resolution which declared Zionism is racism. Hey buddy, come up with something that is correct. Become righteous.
Sir Gerald Kaufmann: “My grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her home town. A German soldier shot her dead in her bed. “My grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian grandmothers in Gaza. “
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By: Bone on 1/25/2011 6:21PM
There are M-A-N-Y and I mean MANY Ethiopian Jews living in Israel. Candace the Queen of Ethiopia inquired of the religion of the Christians and the Jews in the New Testament. In the Old Testament King Solomon had Ethopian children who continued the Jewish traditions and Levitical laws. But I bet those bigots who wrote those terrible things did not know that either. Along with Ms. Grey..as well as many in the African American community.
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By: bugs hunter on 1/25/2011 7:30PM
Boycott apartheid Israel!
The Zionist oppressors of Palestine operates hand in glove with the White neoconservative Christian Republicans that supported P.W.Botha in South Africa, arming both countries with nuclear weapons to put a strangle-hold and the edge militarily in the Middle East and on the Continent of Africa!
While you were keeping up with the latest gossip about Oprah, Steve Harvey and Tom Joyner, these international thieves has stolen TOMORROW!!!!!!!
Don't look now!...these same Zionist oppressors being 2% of the populace holds the most positions in Obama's administration! You know it! You are still a mental slave! You won't challenge the status quo! Joo boys dominating political and economical reality, and you accept your "new Boss" cause he's White too!...El Amigo is next in line!!
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By: bugs hunter on 1/25/2011 8:37PM
A bunch of Europeans with no blood-connection to the Jews of the Bible decides to purloin African culture, regurgitate it, and sell themselves as "joos", signed, sealed, and for a nominal service charge, a, by law, holocau$t package, as a badge of honor from and supported by, their European brothers!!
If they can't be the pure race the Nazi way, by-God, (literally and figuratively) by God, they are attempting to STEAL it, claiming to be joos, coming from Europe, setting up their rogue governments, erecting apartheid walls (fencing sh!t off like Whites do when they steal!)stealing Palestinian land with weapons of mass destructions supplied by the United snakes of America!
Same colonial system being set up here in Palestine!
Just check the Republicans support of this rogue nation and that will tell you all you need to know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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By: JAZZEE on 1/26/2011 8:19AM
Palestinians feel the same way about us supporting anything Isreal, as we felt about any one supporting anything South Africa (during aparteid).Of course they responded this way, how would you. I'm sure that they feel that as a Black woman Macy Gray should know better and she should. She doesn't have to protest, no one is asking her to, just don't cross the picket line, quit acting like a scab!
Just My Humble Opinion,
JAZZEE
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By: Apostle James Winfree on 1/26/2011 11:57AM
Jesus answered, "Most assuredly, I say to you,
unless one is born of water and the Spirit,
he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
John 3:5
We were created with a need for loving intimacy, and we are restless and insecure people those of us who do not know the Lord Jesus Christ. Until we have a loving and Spiritual birth as found in (John 3:1-8), this is what verse (6,) says, "that which is born of flesh is flesh and that which is born of Spirit is Spirit."
As Christians and Believers, we delight to be intimate with Christ and experience this loving Spiritual relationship in His Holy Spirit. Christ Jesus has come to share with all the loving Spiritually abundant life, we all have the same capacity to enter into this God given abundant life; only, it is available to us in our Lord Jesus Christ and by His loving Holy Spirit which many call the Holy Ghost.
Before an individual can have true Spiritual fellowship with The Father in heaven and with His Son Jesus Christ he or she must have His loving Holy Spirit. Christ Jesus said Himself in (John 4:5-25), verse 23,"but the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship The Father in Spirit and in truth: for The Father is seeking us to worship Him in Spirit and in truth". If we are to be in true loving fellowship with The Father and with His Beloved Son The Lord Jesus Christ we must have a re-birth in the Spirit into His Spiritual Kingdom."
Our Father in heaven imparts to all who receives His Son as Savior by giving them His Holy Spirit and He gives a new mind, heart and soul with this brand new birth, so all Christians and Believers can receive and respond to the love of God which is in Christ Jesus, then and only then we as people can love each other as Christ loved us. This brand new birth gives us a new will and God given purpose to do His will and His will only. The Holy Spirit gives us revelation of His will and purpose for our lives, which is really His life; this is where true Spiritual satisfaction comes from.
This is your Bishop and your Servant in our Lord Jesus Christ writing this with tears in his eyes to all those who are reading this right now and yes this means you, my heart hurts because I really want all to know God's love and truth. People, Christians and Believers, it is impossible for The Holy God of all gods [if there be any others] to receive into His presence all those who do not measure up by His loving grace and His Holiness.
But God’s heart is ONE and we must all come to Him the same way and that way is Jesus Christ, and only through Him we can be saved. However The Father cannot really fellowship with any if we have not been redeemed by the Blood and grace of His Son and walking in His Spirit, as found in (Romans 8:9) "but you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you." Now if anyone or anybody does not have the Spirit he or (she) is not His. And the word says in (Rom 8:14) for as many as are led by the Spirit of God these are sons and (daughters) of God.
Our FATHER which is in heaven and to our LORD JESUS CHRIST’s loving HOLY SPIRIT break down all and any barriers that keeps us separate not only from YOU but each other, and bind us together [all people] who are the Church which is YOUR loving BODY together and ONE.
Oh FATHER our GOD please forgive us of our selfish motives and our envy of others that are in the same body, LORD JESUS. Let our hearts be broken like CHRIST when He was on that cross praying FATHER forgive them for they know not what they are doing; and yes dear HOLY SPIRIT may YOU help us to humble ourselves to YOU and to each other as loving and faithful brothers and sisters in CHRIST JESUS our LORD.
FATHER this is one of your sons prayer, brother James R Winfree Sr., cause us all who are in the same faith and same body to become single minded and share this message of Love, Unity and God given Equality and let it prevail in our mind, body spirit and souls. Amen.
Written by Apostle James R Winfree Sr.
The Church humble servant and this ministry.
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