Posted on 04/16/2022 4:33:06 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
They and their counterpart neo-Nazis, La Raza, et al. can self-segregate to their heart’s content. The rest of melting pot/e pluribus unum America will continue on as one nation.
I don’t see a problem. Don’t see many whites at hip-hop awards either. Whites can have their own and so can blacks. Everything doesn’t have to be all black or mixed race.
I remember Charlie Pride when I was a kid and that was a long long time ago 🤪
“Whites can have their own and so can blacks.”
Except whites can’t; that would be racist.
“Everything doesn’t have to be all black or mixed race.”
Except that everything does; the blacks have made it so.
Working on it, working on it, working on it.
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wait, DAMN!
“But there have been quite a few celebs (black, white and otherwise) who have nothing to do with Country music at the CMAs for years. It’s kind of annoying.”
Nothing like having a black rapper entertain at a NASCAR race!
My father loved to listen to him!
Garth Brooks killed country music.
I call this kind of over-compensation "blackity-black" when I see it on TV.
Blacks have been terribly over-represented in advertisements for a long time, but George Floyd BLM pushed into the crazy zone.
How about we treat black folks as people, and stop patronizing them ?
I’m thnkin’ they are there for the exposure - the CMA must have the ratings that the Grammy’s don’t.
I don't know. I only learned of him because my dad had his records in his collection. I used to listen to them.
Also, you could hear him on the radio back in those days. I remember hearing "burgers and fries" played on the radio and the juke box during one of my first jobs.
Dwight Yoakam brought in back.
This. Keep it real. I've had a lot of black friends in my life and I think one of the things they liked about me was that I wasn't afraid of their blackness.
My philosophy has always been "God is no respecter of persons."
Nor should we be.
That what Im talking about.Gross!
Works for me and most of my Black friends. It’s actually my lily white, colleges educated, suburban, liberal female relatives who seem to want to treat them like pets or animals on exhibit at the zoo.
And how about Ray Charles’ “I Can’t Stop Loving You”. A true classic.
His attitude is rejected by most of the so-called right wing.
Now if only more of them would start VOTING that way! The RATs still have too many of them fooled.
Charlie Pride yes very much so
And other early unknown ones
Some early Charley Patton was as country as Jimmie Rodgers
The others not so much
I actually like Rucker voice but not country
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