A recent clip of Carlos Santana making anti-trans comments at his July concert in Atlantic City, NJ has been floating around Beyonce's internet, and the 76-year-old musician immediately apologized after he was dragged on social media.
via: Uproxx
Santana says, “When God made you and me, before we came out of the womb, you know who you are and what you are. Later on, when you grow out of it, you see things, and you start believing that you could be something that sounds good, but you know it ain’t right. Because a woman is a woman and a man is a man, that’s it. Whatever you wanna do in the closet, that’s your business. I’m OK with that.”
He then expresses solidarity with “my brother Dave Chappelle.”
The clip made the rounds online and there’s been enough backlash for Santana to issue an apology.
Carlos Santana apologized for his “insensitive comments” about the trans community in a statement given to Billboard, saying that “I realize that what I said hurt people and that was not my intent.” Read his full statement here.
UPDATE: Santana has removed his apology from Facebook. He replaced it with a post that says “the energy of consciousness generates its own kind. hate begets hate love begets love.”
Is he really that dense to think that he could make anti-trans comments, and someone in the audience wouldn't be filming it with their phone? You knew exactly what you were doing when you decided to use your concert to give your opinion on a community you know nothing about.
Hopefully he means his apology, but the cynic side of me feels that he only apologized because you got caught.
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