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    Jennifer Holliday backs out of Trump inauguration performance

    -Broadway star Jennifer Holliday has backed out as a performer at next week's presidential inaugural, saying she did not realize that her participation would be interpreted as a statement of support for President-elect Donald Trump.

    Holliday, best known for her Tony-winning role in Broadway's "Dreamgirls," faced pressure from her gay, lesbian and black fans when it was announced she would sing at a Thursday concert at Washington's Lincoln Memorial.

    Holliday said in a statement Saturday that she apologized for her lapse of judgment, for being uneducated on the issues and causing heartbreak for her fans...

    ..."My only choice must now be to stand with the LGBT Community and to state unequivocally that I WILL NOT PERFORM FOR THE WELCOME CONCERT OR FOR ANY OF THE INAUGURATION FESTIVITIES!" she wrote.

    "Please know that I HEAR YOU and I feel your pain. The LGBT Community was mostly responsible for birthing my career and I am deeply indebted to you," she added. "You have loved me faithfully and unconditionally and for so many years you provided me with work even though my star had long since faded."

    In an interview with The Associated Press on Friday, Holliday defended her decision to perform at the inauguration.

    "I didn't see it as singing for Trump; I saw it as singing for the people on the mall," Holliday told the AP.

    The performer, who most recently starred on Broadway in "The Color Purple," said she was hurt by the angry backlash, which included calls to boycott her music. Others called her "Uncle Tom" and there was even a suggestion that she take her own life...

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    Just sad.

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    The LGBT Community was mostly responsible for birthing my career and I am deeply indebted to you," she added. "You have loved me faithfully and unconditionally and for so many years you provided me with work even though my star had long since faded."
    Another weakling. So she feels she owes more allegiance to the LGBT than to her own convictions? What a sell-out.
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    and yet, another "celebrity" I'll avoid.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Femme* View Post
    and yet, another "celebrity" I'll avoid.
    She's no longer a "real celebrity", and after this stunt, she may lose that what she has.
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    I have more respect for those who refused from the get-go than those who accepted, then backed out due to pressure. I mean if I were famous and asked to perform at Hillary's inauguration, I'd say no right at the start. If you have to consult your fan base to adjust your conscience, then you're a pretty poor specimen.

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    Opera star Andrea Bocelli backs out of singing at Trump's inauguration after receiving death threats

    The revelation came as another singer – Broadway legend Jennifer Holliday – last night pulled out of the President-elect's festivities after being threatened and branded an 'Uncle Tom'.

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    Successful blacks cannot be "Uncle Toms". The term refers to those who are overly subservient to their masters, which would describe progressives, the state is lord for them, Toms Gone Wild!

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    Actually, if anyone ever read Harriet Beecher Stow's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" they would stop referring to subservient people as UNcle Tom. Uncle Tom was anything but subservient. When one of his white owners ordered Tom to beat another slave he refused and was severely beaten for the refusal. Tom was actually a strong conservative Bible believing Christian.

    I am starting to think that it might be alright if people start calling me an "Uncle Tom."
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    Quote Originally Posted by victoryword View Post
    Actually, if anyone ever read Harriet Beecher Stow's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" they would stop referring to subservient people as UNcle Tom. Uncle Tom was anything but subservient. When one of his white owners ordered Tom to beat another slave he refused and was severely beaten for the refusal. Tom was actually a strong conservative Bible believing Christian.

    I am starting to think that it might be alright if people start calling me an "Uncle Tom."
    What do ya know...

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    ...Epithet

    In short terms, Uncle Tom is labeled to persons, similar to "snitch", "betrayer" and "whistle-blower", whose motive is under the impression "That's [practice of slavery] just how the society works", whether the impression is spontaneous or coerced.

    The term "Uncle Tom" is used as a derogatory epithet for an excessively subservient person, particularly when that person perceives their own lower-class status based on race. It is similarly used to negatively describe a person who betrays their own group by participating in its oppression, whether or not they do so willingly.[1][10] The term has also, with more intended neutrality, been applied in psychology in the form "Uncle Tom syndrome", a term for the use of subservience, appeasement and passivity to cope with intimidation and threats.

    The popular negative connotations of "Uncle Tom" have largely been attributed to the numerous derivative works inspired by Uncle Tom's Cabin in the decade after its release, rather than the original novel itself, whose title character is a more positive figure.[2] These works lampooned and distorted the portrayal of Uncle Tom with politically loaded overtones.[4]
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