You long time TransGriot readers know it's always on like Donkey Kong between me and Chuck Knipp over his New Millennium Minstrel Show.Since Jasmyne Cannick killed an SQL show in southern Ca-lee-forn-ia, Chucky is making a trip to the Bay Area to 'perform' on of all days, Juneteenth.
Chucky is making another reprehensible appearance at the Russian River Resort, and as always controversy follows his 'act'.
San Francisco Supervisor Bevan Dufty wrote a letter to the Russian River Resort asking them to cancel the booking.
The Russian River Resort refused to do so, so the boycott is on. A Facebook page has been launched.
The African-American community's feelings about another SQL sighting were summed up by Javana Wilson's piece in the local African-American paper SF Bayview, “…Knipp utilizes hate speech to further his economic and social status by stepping back into the 19th century to dehumanize Black people."
"I am utterly furious about his racist attacks on Black women and I expect to see the same outrage that went into protesting the performance of a Jamaican artist (Buju Banton) to be directed at Shirley Q. Liquor’s performance.”
So would I Javana, but I'm not holding my breath on that.
