you can make jokes about macklemore if you really want to i guess but you also need to give him some damn RESPECT
his song “Same Love” has a message about how being gay is not a choice and no one should feel bad for being gay and that straight people need to stop saying “gay” as an insult
he also had male and female gay couples get married to each other on LIVE TV in front of MILLIONS OF PEOPLE during his performance of the song on the Grammy’s
he also marched in ferguson to protest during the michael brown case and when the reporter came up to him while he was marching he replied “its about mike brown man, it’s not about me”
in his recent song white privilege II he fully supports #blacklivesmatter and talks about cultural appropriation as well, some of his lyrics are
“White supremacy is our country’s lineage, designed for us to be indifferent
My success is the product of the same system that let off Darren Wilson – guilty
We want to dress like, walk like, talk like, dance like, yet we just stand by
We take all we want from black culture, but will we show up for black lives?”
“You can join the march, protest, scream and shout
Get on Twitter, hashtag and seem like you’re down
But they see through it all, people believe you now?
You said publicly, “Rest in peace, Mike Brown”
You speak about equality, but do you really mean it?
Are you marching for freedom, or when it’s convenient?”
macklemore is a great human being, he is compassionate and he cares about all of the issues tumblr loves to talk about, so why does it seem like he’s just a big joke to people on here?
(feel free to add on anything else about the good he has done)
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