I don’t listen to his music, but I lived in Seattle at the time. I never knew about the apology, but I do remember quite a lot of people talking about the costume at work in the days that followed. AFAIK he’s not done anything else anti-semitic, and I’m not trying to tear him down. Was just explaining part of why I’ve felt iffy about him. He can be iffy in my eyes and still be on the right side of history here
Yeah this keeps being brought up now almost like it’s a retaliation campaign, suspicious. He’s apologized about this 12 years ago
Macklemore issues apology following accusations of anti-semitism
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/may/20/macklemore-apology-accusations-anti-semitism
I don’t listen to his music, but I lived in Seattle at the time. I never knew about the apology, but I do remember quite a lot of people talking about the costume at work in the days that followed. AFAIK he’s not done anything else anti-semitic, and I’m not trying to tear him down. Was just explaining part of why I’ve felt iffy about him. He can be iffy in my eyes and still be on the right side of history here