No More Bystanders: Why It s Time for Country Music Fans to Step Up
No More Bystanders: Why It s Time for Country Music Fans to Step Up
With two bombshells in country on the same day - Morgan Wallen s racial slur and T.J. Osborne s coming out - many were exposed to the two sides of country that feel more at odds than ever
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First, there were the drafts of tweets that went unsent. Then there were the profanity-laced text messages to trusted friends. Finally, there were nerve-calming cooking videos on YouTube. Making some sense of the sadness and confusion I felt in the wake of the Morgan Wallen video took time. The disappointing revelation that country’s hottest new star had been caught on camera using a racist slur was quickly followed by the joyful coming out of Brothers Osborne frontman T.J. Osborne, stirring up even more emotions. As a country-music fan from small-town Alabama who is also gay, I found elements of both news stor