{"id":604099,"date":"2021-07-27T16:51:28","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T20:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=604099"},"modified":"2021-07-27T16:51:32","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T20:51:32","slug":"opinion-michael-strahan-owes-country-music-fans-an-apology-for-calling-them-racists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/opinion-michael-strahan-owes-country-music-fans-an-apology-for-calling-them-racists\/","title":{"rendered":"OPINION: Michael Strahan Owes Country Music Fans an Apology for Calling Them Racists"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fopinion-michael-strahan-owes-country-music-fans-an-apology-for-calling-them-racists%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=604099&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\/07\/GettyImages-1161458177.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Country music fans are racists.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the conclusion Good Morning America host Michael Strahan came to after sitting down with Morgan Wallen in the singer\u2019s first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-morgan-wallen-first-interview-since-n-word-video-deplatforming-i-can-only-come-tell-my-truth\">interview<\/a> since he was caught on camera calling a white friend the n-word.<\/p>\n<p>Strahan noted that, though Wallen\u2019s agency dropped him, his record label suspended him, country radio stations banned his songs, and awards shows blocked his eligibility, his fans refused to abandon him. Indeed, he seemed to acquire a number of new ones \u2014 his latest album, \u201cDangerous,\u201d rocketed to the top of the charts to make him the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmusicnews.com\/2021\/07\/13\/morgan-wallen-sales-best-selling-artist\/\">bestselling<\/a> artist of the year. This, Strahan took as proof that country\u2019s customer base approved of Wallen\u2019s reprehensible word choice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of people look at that, as just you know, it says a lot about country music and the race situation in country music,\u201d the former NFL star told co-anchor George Stephanopoulos on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><em>The race situation in country music.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In other words, according to Strahan, Wallen\u2019s album sales prove that the genre is full of bigots.<\/p>\n<p>Strange then that these same fans also sent the lead single off Darius Rucker\u2019s latest album to the top of the Country Airplay chart. It\u2019s also a bit of puzzler that, thanks to their buying decisions, Kane Brown\u2019s recent release, \u201cExperiment,\u201d debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. And that\u2019s to say nothing of Jimmie Allen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tickettailor.com\/events\/hudsonfields\/367619\">selling out<\/a> his summer music festival.<\/p>\n<p>To Strahan, the country fans who are downloading those songs and buying those tickets are harboring prejudice in their hearts. And the thing that proves it isn\u2019t the hard-earned money they have been plunking down since country wasn\u2019t cool to hear black artists like Charley Pride and Cleve Francis, but their refusal to let the media-entertainment machine dictate when someone\u2019s career is over in their industry.<\/p>\n<p>Immediately after news of the scandal broke, establishment outlets like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/02\/19\/968763249\/with-all-eyes-on-country-music-will-black-nashville-get-the-reckoning-it-deserve\">NPR<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/2021\/02\/17\/crossroads-facing-country-music-after-morgan-wallens-use-racist-slur\/\">The Washington Post<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/music\/story\/2021-02-03\/morgan-wallen-racist-slur-apology-cumulus-radio\">The Los Angeles Times<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2021\/02\/10\/morgan-wallen-country-music-popular-after-racist-slur-what-it-means\/4441395001\/\">USA Today<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/02\/04\/entertainment\/morgan-wallen-country-race-issue\/index.html\">CNN<\/a> rushed to frame those few seconds of candid video as something more than an isolated boozy transgression. <em>How<\/em>, they all seemed to ask<em>, can we characterize this as a problem that goes beyond one man, one moment? How<\/em> <em>can we use it to rebuke country music and reshape it into something more like pop, rock, and Hollywood\u2014something that feeds our leftwing agenda<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>Wallen\u2019s success was the fans\u2019 answer: <em>You can\u2019t.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Like Gandalf bringing down his staff and announcing to a horde of marauding Orcs, \u201cYou shall not pass,\u201d Wallen\u2019s album sales represent average, everyday country listeners telling the elite class they have no power over them.<\/p>\n<p>If country music had a racism problem, wouldn\u2019t the media have had something to point to as proof beyond a single, drunken slur caught in a reckless (though not malicious) moment?<\/p>\n<p>Strahan and his colleagues\u2019 real issue with country is that it is the last major cultural outpost that has remained impervious to the Left\u2019s influence. In no other recording genre could artists as openly conservative as John Rich, Kid Rock, Aaron Lewis, Hank Williams Jr., Trace Adkins, Toby Keith, and Travis Tritt not just survive, but thrive. And the industry that has celebrated old time religion since its inception wasn\u2019t about to let the new, merciless theology of cancel culture come in and change that.<\/p>\n<p>The message country fans are sending through their support of Wallen, who has apologized and shown real contrition by canceling his summer tour, isn\u2019t that they approve of his language, it\u2019s that they aren\u2019t going to cede their independence to a graceless, soulless movement that co-opts all art and culture as opportunities to push a political agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Wallen was country music\u2019s Alamo. And this time, the little guys won.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><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&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>member<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country music fans are racists.That\u2019s the conclusion Good Morning America host Michael Strahan came to after sitting down with Morgan Wallen in the singer\u2019s first interview since he was caught &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604099","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\/604099","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=604099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604099\/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=604099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}