Gospel star Kim Burrell is facing consequences of her anti-gay rant including the cancellation of her radio show.
According to published reports, Burrell’s “Bridging The Gap” radio show, which first began airing through Texas Southern University’s KTSU broadcast seven months ago, has now been removed from the station.
“The Kim Burrell show is no longer airing as part of KTSU Radio programming,” a representative of KTSU confirmed to The Huffington Post. The announcement was made this past Wednesday evening by Texas Southern University.
Adding to the consequences, Burrell’s collaboration with Pharrell for the song, “I See A Victory”, as a part of the Hidden Figures soundtrack, may be the final project between the two. Pharrell appeared on the Ellen DeGeneres show without Burrell (who Ellen banned from her show) and publicly distanced himself from her and used the moment to discuss tolerance for others.
“Whenever you hear some sort of hate speech and you feel like it doesn’t pertain to you because you may not have anything to do with that, all you got to do is put the word black in that sentence, or put gay in that sentence, or put transgender in that sentence, or put white in that sentence, and all of the sudden it starts to make sense to you,” Pharrell said. “I’m telling you, the world is a beautiful place but it does not work without empathy and inclusion.”
Despite earlier reports, Pastor Shirley Caesar has not shown support of the songstress’s comments but instead reminded her that love is always the goal. The pastor and fellow gospel star received backlash over a recent sermon of her own, claiming she was speaking out in defense of Burrell, by saying “You (Kim Burrell) should’ve said something four years ago when our President made that stuff alright.”
But during an interview with Bishop George Bloomer, Shirley Ceasar clarified the remark saying, “there’s no way I’m going to say something ugly about anybody.”
” I’m in the fourth quarter of my life, and I’m doing everything I can to be the best humanitarian and best person that I can be. What I was saying was, why now? Why break up your life now to be bothered with something like that,” Pastor Ceasar said. “That was then, this is now. Let’s go forward now with our lives. To every community…let’s go on with our lives. Time is too short.”
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