Jennifer Holliday On Trump Inauguration Backlash: ‘Black Twitter Called Me A Coon’

“They were calling me coon, calling me house n***er, calling me Aunt Jemima, calling me all kinds of names and asking me to kill myself…and that was from the black community.”

The stinging quote above was delivered by Jennifer Holliday as she recounted the vicious backlash she received for agreeing to perform at president elect Donald Trump‘s inauguration special.  Interestingly, Holliday says it wasn’t the negative response from the Black community that acted as the true catalyst for her to reverse her decision to perform at Trump’s “Make America Great Again! Welcome Celebration” concert on January 19 at the Lincoln Memorial. Instead, it was the kick back from the LGBT community:

“All the tweets that I read from the African American community were directed directly at me. The tweets from the gay community took the issues and did not call me names. Also they have been a faithful community since Dreamgirls to me, and fed me even when the church people didn’t feed me.”

Watch her interview below for some other interesting quotes from her sit down with HLN’s ‘AM Joy with Joy Reid’:

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