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Macklemore Releases Statement, Clarifies ‘F— America’ Chant in Seattle: ‘They Will Not Silence My Voice’


Macklemore has released a statement after leading a "f--- America" chant at Seattle's Palestine Will Live Forever Festival over the weekend.

Macklemore performs at 2016 Many Rivers to Cross Festival at Bouckaert Farm on Oct. 1, 2016 in Fairburn, Ga. Paras Griffin/Getty Images Macklemore has released a statement after leading a “f— America” chant at Seattle’s Palestine Will Live Forever Festival over the weekend. He continued, “And some days I wake up, see another couple billion dollars given to Israel, or another refugee encampment destroyed, or a father holding a limb from his martyred child, or another speech from a politician justifying the right of Israel to ‘defend itself’ while denying Palestinians the right to exist, and I say to myself….

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