Proving yet again that bigotry is bad for business, homophobic gospel singer Kim Burrell continues to take heat after video leaked and was posted to YouTube showing her delivering a sermon at her church wherein she calls gay people “perverted.”
She was dis-invited from “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” which was addressed on the episode on which she would have appeared.
Burrell has also lost her radio and television shows as a result of her hateful views coming to light.
Now Frank Ocean‘s mother, Katonya Breaux, says she would like to see Burrell also disappear from her son’s album, “Blonde.” She appears on the track “Godspeed.”
Breaux sounded off in the following tweets:
Me: Son, can we crop Kim Burrells voice out of your song??
— katonya breaux (@katonya) January 1, 2017
I mean damn. Hypocrisy and the inciting of hate pisses me off. Opportunistic &?%#€!!
— katonya breaux (@katonya) January 1, 2017
Burrell has failed to apologize, claiming she is speaking God’s truth.
Writer Christopher Hooton, with The Independent, makes an interesting argument for leaving the track alone.
“There’s actually something pretty baller about repurposing the voice of a homophobe for a song about everlasting love between two men (‘This love will keep us through blinding of the eyes / Silence in the ears / Darkness of the mind’) and making a ton of money off of it,” he writes.
Listen to the track in question below, and tell us in the comments if you think Burrell should be scrubbed from the song.
Kangol
Just strip her voice off the tracks and add a new one. Very easy to do these days with current digital technology. Kim Burrell, go to hell!
Bob LaBlah
@Kangol: Oh give her a second chance. We all know the devil made her say those things (or should I say if the bitch were smart that is the claim she would make because the sanctimonious will believe damn near anything).
Josh447
No second chance. This stuff is too lethal, kids hanging themselves etc. They don’t get a second chance. She is speaking devil against the nature of humanity. Isn’t there a saying “get back satan”. We be stepping her/it right back off the public stage, forever is my vote.
Terrycloth
Simple really ..a homophobe on a gay man”s cd..erase her .seriously I don’t care how well she can sing .doesn’t she know his sexuality ? If so , she still agreed to be on his record ? If I found you judgemental anti gay and you want to be on my record ..hell no
AmishHomo
They should definitely take Kim Burrell off and replace her with Janet Jackson or Queen Latifah or Alicia Keys but wait! Mariah Carey would be perfect, just make sure her mic his working.
Jack Meoff
It p!sses me off that she has made money off the gay community through her collaborations with gay artists and yet she still spreads hate speech. Strip her voice and prevent her from getting any further royalties if she was contracted to receive them.
Low Country Boy
@Terrycloth: Yes, Sir! I just do not get it. How can she be so homophobic yet sing with the man??? Oh, wait, money talks and bullshit walks. “I hate who you are but, if I can make a buck, I’ll sell my soul to the devil.”
ChrisK
@Low Country Boy: Funny how these Christian bigots never want to have to sacrifice anything for their sincerely held beliefs. Shows you just how fake they are.
He BGB
She would accept a job to sing on a gay or Bi man’s album and accept an invitation to be on a lesbian’s tv show. What a self serving hypocrite! Can’t have your cake and eat it too miss thing.
Captain Obvious
While I’m glad she got her karmic payback it’s still irritating how none of the same punishments or vitriol is ever aimed at white homophobes who do the same. Heck it’s not even aim at [email protected] who’ve used the N word. Ya’ll are a trip.