{"id":559867,"date":"2021-06-10T17:22:15","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T21:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=559867"},"modified":"2021-06-10T17:22:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T21:22:19","slug":"exclusive-grandmother-behind-morgan-wallen-billboards-says-everyone-has-to-stand-up-to-cancel-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-grandmother-behind-morgan-wallen-billboards-says-everyone-has-to-stand-up-to-cancel-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Grandmother Behind Morgan Wallen Billboards Says Everyone Has to Stand Up to Cancel Culture"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fexclusive-grandmother-behind-morgan-wallen-billboards-says-everyone-has-to-stand-up-to-cancel-culture%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=559867&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\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1322601929.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><span>The Alabama grandmother behind the mysterious billboards that have popped up around Los Angeles and Nashville supporting disgraced country singer Morgan Wallen tells the Daily Wire she has a message about cancel culture and it\u2019s very simple: \u201cEveryone must band together to stop it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In April, six billboards <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/billboards-supporting-morgan-wallen-pop-up-around-nashville\"><span>appeared<\/span><\/a><span> in high-traffic areas around Nashville ahead of the Academy of Country Music (ACM) awards showing an outline of Wallen\u2019s face with this message: \u201cHis Fan\u2019s Choice, Entertainer of the Year. Support that boy from \u2018East Tennessee!\u201d Another showed up in Los Angeles just before the Billboard Music Awards. The superstar had been banned from both ceremonies after he was caught on video calling a white friend the n-word while intoxicated.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Wallen immediately apologized, saying, \u201cI\u2019m embarrassed and sorry. I used an unacceptable and inappropriate racial slur that I wish I could take back. There are no excuses to use this type of language, ever. I want to sincerely apologize for using the word. I promise to do better.\u201d\u00a0 But that wasn\u2019t enough for his industry. His record label <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/siriusxm-pandora-cmt-iheartradio-pull-morgan-wallen-music-following-n-word-video-recorded-by-neighbor\"><span>suspended<\/span><\/a><span> his contract. Radio station ownership groups and streaming platforms removed his songs from their rotations. Clubs along Nashville\u2019s Broadway barred performers from playing his songs. Finally, several major country music organizations marked Wallen as ineligible for awards and announced he would not be welcome to attend.<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>That was when Darleen Ingram and her friends in a Facebook fan group said, \u201cEnough is enough,\u201d and hatched a plan to send a message to the music industry: \u201cIt\u2019s time for you to accept [Wallen\u2019s] apology.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt came to me because a group of us on the fan pages started talking about how much of an overreaction it was,\u201d she tells the Daily Wire. \u201cSomeone filmed him in his own yard and released the video to TMZ knowing it would destroy his life.\u201d<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Their plan to win attention appears to have worked, as the billboards have <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9667769\/New-billboards-live-Nashville-supporting-shamed-Morgan-Wallen-ahead-CMT-Music-Awards.html\"><span>generated<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/billboards-support-morgan-wallen-nashville-racial-slur-controversy-report\"><span>numerous<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-country\/morgan-wallen-billboards-nashville-1155147\/\"><span>headlines<\/span><\/a><span> in major media outlets around the world, so there\u2019s little chance country music executives haven\u2019t heard about them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Ingram says there\u2019s no question that what Wallen said was wrong, but she believes the punishment has been disproportionate to the crime. \u201cWe realize there had to be repercussions, some sort of fall out,\u201d she says. \u201cBut to keep on and on and take away everything he\u2019s earned without taking the time to evaluate who he is or what he\u2019s done to better himself, it\u2019s not right.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>That\u2019s why her group\u2019s latest billboard buy \u2014 seven advertisements in heavily populated parts of Nashville just before the CMT awards \u2014 include a reference to the Bible verse, Mark 11:25: \u201c<\/span><span>And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive them, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThat\u2019s a verse I have referred to often in my life and it fits this situation,\u201d the 54-year-old Ingram says.\u201dWe have to have a way to forgive someone when they apologize and let it be over so they can move. [Wallen] is not the only one in the music industry who has said or done something wrong. If we\u2019re going to cancel one of them for saying an ugly thing, we need to cancel all of them who have ever said something inappropriate.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Ingram says when she first had the idea, she envisioned buying one billboard. But so many people in her Facebook group responded to her call to action, in a few days she had enough to buy a package of six. \u201cIt felt like a big accomplishment,\u201d she tells the Daily Wire. For the third round of billboards, the group was able to buy seven.<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Explaining why fans like her feel so connected to Wallen, Ingram waxes poetic: \u201cHis music is like sugar rolling off the lips. If you listen to all of his songs, you\u2019re going to find one that speaks to your soul. He has that country sound. He has that country lifestyle. He\u2019s one of us. His music speaks to what the common people know about \u2014 tailgates, bonfires, and red dirt roads.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As a resident of a small town, it\u2019s a lifestyle Ingram also understands. And she says the values of unity, forgiveness, and grace she and her neighbors hold are worth fighting for. \u201cWe\u2019re sick of cancel culture. We\u2019re all human and make mistakes. So we said to ourselves, \u2018We can\u2019t let them keep doing this. Just relentlessly punishing people. As long as we keep sitting back doing nothing, nothing is going to change. We have to stand up and fight.\u2019 This was our way of doing it.\u201d<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>For those following the story of her billboard, Ingram wants them to know that cancel culture is bigger than politics. \u201cWe just wanted our voices to be heard and to let the industry know it\u2019s not political, it\u2019s about wanting the division in the country to stop. We want to be able to listen to who want to listen to and we want the music industry to play fair.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Daily Wire reached out to ViacomCBS, CMT\u2019s parent company, for comment on Darleen Ingram\u2019s message but did not receive a response.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Alabama grandmother behind the mysterious billboards that have popped up around Los Angeles and Nashville supporting disgraced country singer Morgan Wallen tells the Daily Wire she has a message &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2279938,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1322601929.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"EXCLUSIVE: Grandmother Behind Morgan Wallen Billboards Says Everyone Has to Stand Up to Cancel Culture","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1322601929.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"EXCLUSIVE: Grandmother Behind Morgan Wallen Billboards Says Everyone Has to Stand Up to Cancel Culture","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559867","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}