Singer Tina Campbell was forced to swallow her pride and postpone her It’s Still Personal tour because of embarrassingly low ticket sales.
Campbell, one half of the multiplatinum, award-winning Mary Mary gospel duo hopped on Instagram to inform her dwindling fan base of the decision.
“I’d like to say THANK YOU to all who have purchased tickets for the ‘It’s Still Personal Tour’. Our hope is that all who have attended, have been thoroughly blessed. We are grateful for those who were planning to attend but our overall ticket sales haven’t shown that we have the support that we need to continue the tour at this time,” the Mary Mary singer wrote on Instagram.
Campbell promised her fans that this will be a brief moratorium on the tour. She said she hopes the tour would return next year.
“We’re convinced that many more would love the opportunity to attend this praise-filled, faith-filled, entertaining, worship experience, so we have decided to give ourselves time to reach all of those people and bring this amazing tour back in the spring of 2018,” the message continued.
Many will probably speculate that the conspicuous lack of support has a lot to do with the fact that Campbell voted for Donald Trump for president, despite his blatant sexism and rabid racism, and then performed at The Donald’s inauguration, decisions that have since come back to haunt her. The comments under her Instagram post that announced the postponement indicates the ticket sales and Donald Trump may be interrelated.
Campbell wrote an open letter outlining why she both forgives Trump’s transgressions and why she supports him as president. She even conjured up biblical reasons as to why everyone should pray for him, things that undoubtedly rankled a lot of Blacks.
“I believe that understanding and compassion [are] absolutely necessary for the progress of all people,” Campbell wrote on Facebook. “So, although I don’t always understand or agree with Mr. Donald Trump’s politics, perspective, and approach, I believe that the same God that created all of us has deposited greatness inside of him that goes far beyond what many of us have seen and what many of us could imagine.”
She also admonished Black Americans and Trump haters to spend more time praying for the leaders of the country and less time complaining.
“I choose to stand with him, and pray for him; because, as a follower of Jesus Christ and a firm believer in the Holy Bible, according to 1 Timothy 2:1-3, I have been commanded to: ‘The first thing I want you to do is pray every way you know how … especially for rulers and their governments, to rule well. This is the way our Savior God wants us to live,’ ” she wrote.
Black Twitter is also convinced that Oprah only invited Tina Campbell’s sister, Erica, to her star-studded Gospel Brunch recently and not Tina because of Tina’s support for the president.
