OPAL JEWEL, REGARDING HER FELLOW RIVINGTON ARTISTS: Of course I told them that the Bonds shouldn’t be representing our label in the first damn place. When their album came out with that terrible cover, with the Confederate flag all over it, I went to a lot of these folks and asked them, Please, back me up in calling bull. Everybody was too scared to rock the boat. Once it looked like the Bonds were gonna gobble up space on their records, though? Suddenly these same people were up in arms. And that right there is very typical of white people—won’t do what’s right till they’re directly affected.
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