White Reporter Has Meltdown After Seeing Black People At Country Music Awards: 'It's Not Wakanda'

[Celerity]

https://news.yahoo.com/white-reporter-meltdown-seeing-black-184923398.html

A white nationalist displayed a toddler-like tantrum on his conservative show because he didn’t want to see Black people at the Country Music Awards. Patrick Howley, the right-wing reporter, first proved his ignorance when he failed to recognize one of the award show’s hosts, Anthony Mackie.

Link to tweet

“I don’t know who this Black guy is who’s hosting it. It’s supposed to be country music,” the bitter white man said as he showed a clip of the award show to his viewers. “No offense. Y’all have hip-hop, basketball. Just fly with your flock, bro.”

The one-minute clip posted to Twitter captured much more of the white man’s shameless behavior. “The melanated people invented country music!” he said while mocking Black people. “We was making country music in Wakanda before Johnny Cash and Merle Haggard done stole the Black man’s country music!”

Still, the clueless conservative pundit continued to dig himself into a deeper hole. “There were so many Black people there,” he said. “Sorry to say, but so many Black celebrities who have nothing to do with country music and it’s like — why?”

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[ret5hd]

1. Oldie but goodie - the NASCAR prank call:

[vercetti2021]

17. Oldie but a goodie

Wonder how he would feel about Bubba Wallace lol

[exboyfil]

3. Charley Pride anybody?

Also a huge amount of the musical influence on modern country comes directly from the Blues, Gospel and Soul music of the south.

Elvis Presley would slap the smirk off this guy's face.

Also musicians cross genre lines. They may not play other types of music, but they appreciate it and the artists who perform it. A hip hop professional has more things in common with a country music professional than say an accountant. They are musicians first. They buy the same type of equipment with some modifications and in many cases record in the same studios. They have the same issues with promoters and booking agents as they play in the same venues.

[Walleye]

8. Charley Pride was the first name popped into my head. A giant of the genre

Ray Charles for God sakes. Music is music.

[GoCubsGo]

10. I was thinking Darius Rucker, who is more contemporary.

But, only because he's a local where I live. He's no Charley Pride, but he's also not a country music nobody. Yes, music is music, and nobody owns any genre of it.

[Walleye]

11. Yes I like Darius Rucker. He didn't get enough airplay I always thought

[keithbvadu2]

13. Darius Rucker, great balladeer.

Darius Rucker, great balladeer.

[lpbk2713]

23. Darius Rucker had several speaking parts in Ken Burns' Country Music.

And there was a segment devoted to Country Charley Pride.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. I'm torn between saying "Kids today!" and asking if this is meant as satire.

I mean, Charley Pride was performing in the '60s, and there isn't anyone who listens to country music who hasn't heard of Charley Pride.

Edited because I can't spell his name correctly. It's Charley, not Charlie.

[Celerity]

6. Patrick Howley was the asshole who got the scoop on the Ralph Northman in blackface shit

A tip from a ‘concerned citizen’ helps a reporter land the scoop of a lifetime about Northam

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/a-tip-from-a-concerned-citizen-helps-a-reporter-land-the-scoop-of-a-lifetime/2019/02/03/e30762ea-2765-11e9-ad53-824486280311_story.html

[Docreed2003]

5. Screw this guy

There are plenty of great "country music" artists and always have been, whether they've gotten the respect and notoriety they deserve is a totally different question. The entire concept of "country music" charts vs "r&b" charts was a function of segregation. Roots music has always been diverse and should always celebrate that diversity. Thankfully some in Nashville are beginning to do just that. Fuck this ignorant asshole and his racist crap.

Edit to add: After looking at his social media posts,his whole shtick is to bash black, Jews, and liberals...no one should be taking this clown seriously

[FrankBooth]

7. He's not a reporter

This clown is a reporter like I'm an opera singer. His reporting is akin to me singing arias in the shower. He's just another bigot with an internet connection.

[LastDemocratInSC]

9. "The melanated people invented country music!"

If he's implying that white people are "melanated" he's correct because all people have some melanin. But I think that's not what he means. He means that white people invented country music, but white people are white because they have less melanin than others, so his statement about who invented country music is completely backwards.

[NickB79]

12. Ok, I'm not the only one who noticed that

Like, de-melanated would be a White descriptor, not melanated.

[malaise]

14. Send him this

[JI7]

15. He doesn't know anything about Johnny Cash and Merle Haggard ?

Other than them being white men.

[Samrob]

16. Hmm...what would the late, great, Elvis say?????

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XzeubdFFHXk

[vercetti2021]

18. Lol

Tell me you're racist without telling me you're racist.

Someone better not mention that there's black cowboys too. This little white fuck might have an aneurysm

[struggle4progress]

19. Patrick Howley should stay with his own people, staggering down the street

and gasping "Braaains! braaains!"

[whistler162]

20. Obviously he takes no Pride

in his knowledge of Country music.

[area51]

21. I saw what you did there.

Thought I'd throw out this mention of Lil Nas X since he had a country hit, "Old Town Road".

[IcyPeas]

22. did he complain when Billy Ray Cyrus played at the BET Awards with Lil Nas X too?