Gina Ortiz Jones, the mayor of San Antonio, Texas, wants to cancel Kanye West’s Fourth of July concert.
Scheduled to be held at the Alamodome, Ortiz Jones expressed her dismay at the upcoming concert.
“I support canceling the @kanyewest concert,” she wrote in a post on X (formerly Twitter).
“Military City USA should not host someone with a record of hate speech and antisemitic comments in a city-funded facility like our Alamodome. Not ever, and certainly not on July 4th, our Nation’s 250th birthday,” Ortiz Jones said. “Standing up to antisemitism is exactly what it takes to achieve a more perfect Union.”
According to Billboard, tickets for the newly announced show went on sale last week via Ticketmaster. Prices range from $127.50 for standard upper-level admission to $1,461.25 for the premium “YE – Front Row Experience,” which secures fans a front-row seat in the stadium’s lower bowl right next to the floor.
West’s July 4 stop in San Antonio is nestled between upcoming performances in Tampa, Florida (June 26, 28) and Tirana, Albania (July 11). As currently scheduled, the rapper’s summer mini-tour will then head to Madrid, Spain (July 30) and Algarve, Portugal (Aug. 7). He’ll then head back to the States for a pair of homecoming shows in Chicago (Sept. 3-4). Notably, this run marks his closest return to the road since his last official full-scale tour over ten years ago.
WEST APOLIGZED FOR HIS PREVIOUS ANTISEMETIC TIRADES
Back in January, West issued a lengthy public apology addressing his previous antisemitism tirade. He took out a full-page advert in the Wall Street Journal apologizing for his antisemitic behavior.
“I am not a Nazi or an antisemite,” he wrote. “I love Jewish people.”
In the apology, titled “To Those I’ve Hurt,” Ye cited his inflammatory actions, including making profoundly offensive statements and selling T-shirts bearing swastikas, to his bipolar-1 disorder, which he said he developed as a result of medical oversight failing to diagnose a frontal-lobe injury sustained in a car crash in 2002.