Oklahoma Pastor Refuses To Apologize After Wearing Blackface, Says He Was Tributing Ray Charles
A white Oklahoma pastor is trying to defend himself after being seen in a video that showed him in blackface, and says he won’t apologize since he was tributing Ray Charles.
Sherman Jaquess, the pastor of the Matoaka Baptist Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, said he painted his body in black smudge and wore a Jheri curl wig during a 2017 Valentine’s Day performance because he was paying tribute to Ray Charles.
“We have people [who] are offended by a lot of things, but it’s hard to play Ray Charles if you don’t play a Black man; it wasn’t anything,” Jaquess told to the Examiner-Enterprise.
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