{"id":1533245,"date":"2022-06-30T07:50:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T11:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1533245"},"modified":"2022-06-30T07:51:06","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T11:51:06","slug":"u-s-army-pbs-pick-blm-singer-who-belittled-the-land-of-the-free-to-headline-july-4-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-army-pbs-pick-blm-singer-who-belittled-the-land-of-the-free-to-headline-july-4-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Army, PBS Pick BLM Singer Who Belittled The \u2018Land Of The Free\u2019 To Headline July 4 Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-s-army-pbs-pick-blm-singer-who-belittled-the-land-of-the-free-to-headline-july-4-concert%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1533245&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-149.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In a twist of regrettable irony, PBS Broadcasting has asked Black Lives Matter singer Mickey Guyton to host the annual Independence Day concert, \u201cA Capitol Fourth,\u201d on their American Forces channel, which is cosponsered by the U.S. Army. The young country singer became famous for her Grammy-nominated song \u201cBlack Like Me,\u201d which uncoincidentally bears the same monogram as Black Lives Matter. <\/p>\n<p>Guyton wrote the song in the wake of George Floyd\u2019s death as a <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2020\/music\/news\/mickey-guyton-black-like-me-country-music-interview-1234695122\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">celebration of the BLM movement<\/a>. One line <a href=\"https:\/\/genius.com\/Mickey-guyton-black-like-me-lyrics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reads<\/a>, \u201cIf you think we live in the land of the free, you should try to be black like me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a Federalist exclusive, Bob Woodson, civil rights activist and founder of the Woodson Center, called Guyton\u2019s song \u201ca slap in the face\u201d and \u201can insult to all black Americans, particularly those that have sacrificed their lives.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey fought so someone like this person would have the freedom to decry the values of the nation,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Army, along with The National Park Service, The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, American Airlines, and The Boeing Company are providers for the concert. Although nothing the Army does should surprise us after their <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/01\/top-gun-is-much-better-recruitment-than-that-lesbian-wedding-cartoon-ad-the-army-made\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lesbian recruitment ad<\/a> in 2021, financially supporting a BLM advocate who has publicly condemned the \u201cland of the free\u201d to host a concert celebrating our nation\u2019s Independence Day on national television is a hypocritical move indeed. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI find it particularly distressing that the Department of the Army would be one of the supporters,\u201d Woodson said, \u201cbecause what Black Lives Matter has said is that America is fundamentally flawed\u2014it is racist at its core, it\u2019s almost a criminal organization. Well, why would you expect young men and young women to volunteer to sacrifice their lives for a country that its own military says is racist and therefore culpable in perpetuating injustice? It\u2019s a contradiction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also noted the irony that Guyton became famous as a result of the highly successful American system. \u201cAnd yet, she is going to defame the country and send the message to other blacks it\u2019s not possible to achieve here the success that she has,\u201d he said. \u201cReally, it\u2019s a contradiction for her to be critical of the nation that is responsible for her individual success.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Guyton\u2019s anti-American claims don\u2019t represent most African Americans, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/575610924\/SuccessSequence-DisadvantagedYA-Embargoed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recent study<\/a>. It and many other studies have demonstrated that personal life choices \u2014 like having kids before marriage, quitting high school, and not keeping a full-time job \u2014 not racism, are the factors that curtail non-white Americans\u2019 upward mobility. <\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Beth Whitehead is an intern at The Federalist and a journalism major at Patrick Henry College where she fondly excuses the excess amount of coffee she drinks as an occupational hazard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a twist of regrettable irony, PBS Broadcasting has asked Black Lives Matter singer Mickey Guyton to host the annual Independence Day concert, \u201cA Capitol Fourth,\u201d on their American Forces<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":845,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1533245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/845"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1533245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1533245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1533245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1533245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}