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- 0:00Speaker 1: Donkey up today. Damn hell, they should be embarrassed by
- 0:11Speaker 1: what they already did. I'm not making new people do
- 0:13Speaker 1: these days called donkey of the day, and it really
- 0:16Speaker 1: caught me off guard. Damn Charlomagne, who got the donkey
- 0:20Speaker 1: out of the day today? Well, just hilarious donkey today
- 0:24Speaker 1: for Wednesday, February twenty first goes to John Snyder. We
- 0:27Speaker 1: was off Monday, so I couldn't get to this sooner.
- 0:29Speaker 1: But it's only Wednesday, and in light of some recent developments,
- 0:32Speaker 1: it's not too late to give John Snyder the credit
- 0:34Speaker 1: he deserves for being stupid. Now, John played vote on
- 0:37Speaker 1: the dukesa Hazard. If he was born in the nineteen
- 0:39Speaker 1: hundred and seventies like me, then you remember Dukes of Hazard,
- 0:43Speaker 1: and it's amazing to me. Sidebar, it's amazing to me
- 0:46Speaker 1: that Donald Trump is not pulled up to a riley
- 0:48Speaker 1: in the General Lee card. It's perfect for him. It's
- 0:52Speaker 1: orange like his complexion. It has a Confederate flag on
- 0:54Speaker 1: the side, and it was named after the most famous
- 0:57Speaker 1: Confederate general. Okay, if you are the leader of the
- 0:59Speaker 1: Party of the Confederacy, like Trump, you gotta have the car.
- 1:02Speaker 1: The Confederacy. If he pulled up to a rally in
- 1:05Speaker 1: the in the general Lee Maga would love it. But
- 1:09Speaker 1: that's not why we're here today. We are here to
- 1:10Speaker 1: discuss John Snyder and these comments he made about Beyonce
- 1:13Speaker 1: and her foray into country music. Now, John Snyder sat
- 1:16Speaker 1: down for an interview with one American news network, and
- 1:19Speaker 1: it's safe to say he doesn't agree with Beyonce jumping
- 1:21Speaker 1: in the country music. Let's listen, the lefties in the
- 1:24Speaker 1: entertainment industry just won't leave any area alone, right. They
- 1:28Speaker 1: just have to seize control over every aspect, don't they.
- 1:31Speaker 1: They've got to. They've got to make their mark, just
- 1:33Speaker 1: like a dog in a in a dog walk park.
- 1:36Speaker 1: You know, every dog has to mark every tree. Right.
- 1:40Speaker 1: So that's what's going on here. What does what does
- 1:43Speaker 1: what party you belong to have to do with this?
- 1:46Speaker 1: And John, how you turn the Boss Hog on Beyonce?
- 1:48Speaker 1: You know Boss Hog was forever angry with the Dukes
- 1:50Speaker 1: because they used to foil all his schemes? Are you
- 1:52Speaker 1: going to be forever mad at Beyonce because she's about
- 1:54Speaker 1: to dominate country music for a little while? See? John
- 1:58Speaker 1: doesn't like entertain His claim country music is their own. No, John,
- 2:02Speaker 1: you don't like black entertainers claiming country music is their own,
- 2:06Speaker 1: which I haven't heard Beyonce do. But even if she did, John,
- 2:09Speaker 1: I think you should know that so much of what
- 2:11Speaker 1: people love about country music comes from black people. Okay.
- 2:15Speaker 1: The first string bands in this country were you know,
- 2:18Speaker 1: enslaved people. That's a fact. Okay. I know we live
- 2:21Speaker 1: in a country that doesn't like teaching the truth about
- 2:23Speaker 1: his history. But news flash, America and everyone around the
- 2:26Speaker 1: world listening to my voice, I'm about to tell y'all
- 2:28Speaker 1: something that most people who read just a little bit. No,
- 2:30Speaker 1: most popular music genres were started by black people. Okay.
- 2:33Speaker 1: Country music in the US began with black people. I know.
- 2:36Speaker 1: I know, Charlae Mane, you make everything about race. No,
- 2:39Speaker 1: I make everything about history, all right, the history that
- 2:42Speaker 1: this country keeps trying to erase, all right. The story
- 2:44Speaker 1: of country music began with the banjo. Okay. The modern
- 2:47Speaker 1: day banjo is a descendant of a West African instrument
- 2:51Speaker 1: made from gorge called the a content, yes, a conting Okay.
- 2:55Speaker 1: Think about Akon and think about him drinking a gang
- 2:58Speaker 1: and that's how you pronounce it. Just think about akon.
- 3:03Speaker 1: Then think about acon drinking a ting and that's how
- 3:05Speaker 1: you pronounce it a content. Okay. Now, when enslaved humans
- 3:09Speaker 1: were taken from Africa to America, their instruments came with them,
- 3:12Speaker 1: right for four hundred years, and slave people created their
- 3:15Speaker 1: own music, all with roots in African music. In the
- 3:17Speaker 1: eighteen forties, the banjo was seen as an exclusively black instrument.
- 3:21Speaker 1: It was unheard of for a white person to play
- 3:23Speaker 1: the banjo. Okay, once I continue, all right. In the
- 3:26Speaker 1: eighteen fifties, mistrul shows became popular. All right, minstrel shows
- 3:29Speaker 1: introduced to banjo the white audiences, and then, like most things,
- 3:32Speaker 1: white people appropriated it and started playing the banjo. So
- 3:36Speaker 1: the mistral shows unintentionally laid the groundwork, the foundation, if
- 3:39Speaker 1: you will, for hill billy music, and the hill billy
- 3:42Speaker 1: music would later be renamed country, which became the music
- 3:45Speaker 1: of the South. Now, you Caucasians, don't get mad at me,
- 3:48Speaker 1: okay for telling you about history. I'm not making any
- 3:50Speaker 1: of this up. Okay, So, John, you can't say Beyonce
- 3:52Speaker 1: is trying to make her mark in country music. Her
- 3:54Speaker 1: ancestors already did that, all right. Not to mention Charlie Pride. Okay,
- 3:58Speaker 1: Tina Turner, why were you acting like the turn that
- 4:00Speaker 1: didn't have country music moments? I know she's known as
- 4:02Speaker 1: the queen of rock and roll, but Tina from Tennessee.
- 4:04Speaker 1: Her first album was called Tina Turns the Country On.
- 4:07Speaker 1: She was covering Dolly Parton's songs. All Right, the great
- 4:10Speaker 1: Ray Charles Big country music. Okay, Ray Charles is in
- 4:13Speaker 1: the Country Music Hall of Fame. Not to mention South
- 4:16Speaker 1: Carolina's own Darius Rutgers, Caane Brown. We met Came Brown
- 4:19Speaker 1: last year. I already music accessible. It's so many black
- 4:22Speaker 1: country singers, and it's amazing to me that you know
- 4:24Speaker 1: the post Malons and Lanea Delle Rays when they dipping
- 4:27Speaker 1: their pink toes. In country music, nobody says anything as
- 4:30Speaker 1: soon as Beyonce starts whiggling her brown feet. Okay, and
- 4:33Speaker 1: what people like John Snyder want to be a segregated pool,
- 4:36Speaker 1: all hell breaks loose. Okay, Well, let me tell you
- 4:37Speaker 1: something about God. Okay, God will prepare a table for
- 4:41Speaker 1: you and the presence of your enemy. See, we all
- 4:44Speaker 1: should welcome the criticism. We all should welcome to hate.
- 4:47Speaker 1: We should all welcome the nay says, because in twenty
- 4:50Speaker 1: twenty four, these algorithms don't know the difference. So when
- 4:52Speaker 1: you have someone who has beloved as Beyonce, just sell
- 4:55Speaker 1: Noles Carter and they debut music at the super Bowl,
- 4:58Speaker 1: the most watched tele division, an event in American history.
- 5:01Speaker 1: When you are already that kind of superstar and you
- 5:03Speaker 1: debut music in front of an audience of over two
- 5:05Speaker 1: hundred million, and the people who love you run to listen,
- 5:09Speaker 1: and the people who hate you run to listen, and
- 5:11Speaker 1: the people who love you or talk about your music,
- 5:13Speaker 1: and the people like John Snyder who want to hate
- 5:15Speaker 1: you or talking about your music, all of that makes
- 5:17Speaker 1: for a perfect storm that causes you to become the
- 5:20Speaker 1: first black woman the Top Billboard's Country Songs Chart with
- 5:24Speaker 1: Texas Hold Them Yes, Beyonce has become the first black
- 5:27Speaker 1: woman the Top Billboard's Hot Country Songs Chart after her
- 5:32Speaker 1: track Texas hold Them deybuwed that number one drop on
- 5:34Speaker 1: the Clues Bombs, Beyonce red, That's why in this era,
- 5:39Speaker 1: if you don't like something, it's best not to speak
- 5:41Speaker 1: on it, because when you speak on it, whether you're
- 5:44Speaker 1: mean to or not, you are propelling the success of
- 5:47Speaker 1: that something because the algorithm don't know the difference between
- 5:50Speaker 1: love and hate. I wish today Beyonce would post thank
- 5:53Speaker 1: you for making me the first black woman the top
- 5:56Speaker 1: Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart. And to my critics, doubt
- 6:00Speaker 1: fuels me. Your hate drives me, your ignorance challenges me,
- 6:05Speaker 1: you inspire me. Okay, thank you, John and everybody in
- 6:10Speaker 1: country music who thinks like you. Please let Chelsea Handler
- 6:13Speaker 1: give John Snyder the biggest he haw hee haw hee haw.
- 6:17Speaker 1: That is way too much, Dan Maynes. Now I want
- 6:20Speaker 1: to tell you about another black woman who is a
- 6:22Speaker 1: history maker. She is the first black woman to have
- 6:24Speaker 1: a number one hit on the country charts. Her name
- 6:26Speaker 1: is Alice Randall. She has a professor at Vanderbilt and
- 6:29Speaker 1: on April night, she has a book coming out that
- 6:31Speaker 1: I am holding in my hand. This is the Advanced
- 6:33Speaker 1: Reader's edition. It's called My Black Country, a Journey through
- 6:36Speaker 1: Country Music's Black Past, Present and Future. This is the
- 6:40Speaker 1: next release off my book in print Black Privilege Publishing
- 6:42Speaker 1: with Simon and Schuster. So if you want a quick
- 6:45Speaker 1: history lesson on black people in country music, this is
- 6:48Speaker 1: the book for you. My Black Country by Alice Randall.
- 6:51Speaker 1: Thank you go pre order now wherever you buy books.
- 6:56Speaker 1: All right, yes, let's allude to those black queens. Yes, indeed,
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