Panama Jackson has an enlightening conversation with country music artist Rissi Palmer about what's needed to bridge the racial gap in country music. The pair also discuss the repeated racist incidents Palmer has been forced to endure and the concerted effort underway to erase Black musician's contributions to the genre.
As Dear Culture continues to celebrate Black Music Month, host Panama Jackson has an enlightening conversation with country music artist Rissi Palmer. The pair talk about the repeated racist incidents Palmer has been forced to endure and discuss what's needed to bridge the racial gap in country music, something she's working towards with her Apple Music Radio show "Color Me Country." Palmer also shares the stories of Black musicians who helped the pioneers of country music find their sound and gives historical detail about the efforts to erase their contributions from the genre.
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a campus reporter went to the university and asked how they felt about turkey day and the majority responded, that appeared in that clip so they felt it celebrates the genocide of native americans, racist undertones. we asked viewers how you felt and many disagree. one twitter user says let me guess, they still want the time off. johnny tweets they will gladly take the weekend, i thought they learn facts in college, not garbage, this is garbage. it started with christopher columbus day and now people saying thanksgiving is a display of privilege. heather: when they ask students, they tried to answer the politically correct thing to say. carley: if you watch the clip reporters questions were leading like don t you think it is a celebration of genocide and some students say how do i respond?
it also is reporting that no one knows how much all that intel is costing or if it s even working. they found 1200 government organize and almost 2,000 private companies working on counterterrorism, homeland security and intelligence. an estimated 854,000 people actually hold top secret clearance. tempest in a tea party. the movement long faced criticisms of racist undertones, but now the outcry is exploding. a leader of one of the group s blogs about colored people and the national movement gives him the boot. jim acosta has been following the tea party protest. walk us through the wild weekend. reporter: this is like one tea party group throwing another tea party group under the bus. all of this started last week when the naacp condemned the tea party movement for some of the racially insensitive signs and language we have seen at some tea party rallies, and that prompted mark williams a rally