Singer Chrisette Michele had to turn off her cell phone and stay off the Internet after she accepted an invitation to sing at one of President Donald Trump’s inauguration balls.
Despite having performed for then-President Barack Obama in the White House, her decision to perform for his successor led people to call her a coon and a sellout; Spike Lee announced that he would no longer have one of her songs, “Black Girl Magic,” featured on an upcoming television show.
But Michele doesn’t regret her decision at all.