Today's Blind Items - The Racist Country Singer- Anniversary Month
Back in the day when I first ran across this country singer, his first single was about to come out. It was maybe a month or two from being released. He was trying to get some shows outside his local area to try and expand his fan base and sales. His deal depended on big sales and when that single dropped he wanted people to buy it and radio stations to play it.
A radio station in one city did him a solid. They arranged for him to go on the air and sing his new song to a massive radio audience and would even sponsor a show at a club which held a few hundred people. The station did it more for the manager who was A+ list. Our singer was soon to be A+ list, at least in the early part of his career. He is probably A- list now. Maybe B+ list. Catchy name which is what saves him. Anyway, my first encounter with him was when he walked around the corner of the stage at the club where this show was going to be held. He said he was hungry and was looking for a N word boy to cook him up some food. Yep. Just like that.
A guy I worked with jumped down the singer's throat and said that kind of language wasn't acceptable. The singer replied something to the effect he was not in the KKK and didn't mean anything by it. He was just having some fun. Uh huh. I assume he was also having fun when he started making racist Hispanic jokes and went back to the N word later when he told someone the only good N is a dead one. He was about to get the crap beaten out of him by at least a dozen people. The only reason they held back was they didn't want to get fired or to give the club or radio station a bad name.
At some point, the general manager of the radio station overheard yet another racist comment and talked to the singer's manager. The manager was appalled. Probably. I know the manager and will give him the benefit of the doubt but he continued to represent the guy because money apparently is worth more than racism. The singer apologized. His very short set consisted of every stereotypical thing you could imagine. he had a jacket with a Confederate flag on the back and one was the backdrop behind his band. he said these things to people he didn't even know. Can you imagine the things he said and did around people he felt comfortable with? To this day he still has not changed. Oh, he holds it together better around strangers but you get him around people he knows and what he says is even worse. Oh, before I forget. He divorce his second wife when he found out she once had sex with an Asian guy years earlier. Yep. He also told her if she tried to claim any alimony or anything like that, he would tell her parents she was sleeping with a lot of guys and that none were white. It wasn't true, but he knew her parents would believe him and not her so she kept quiet.
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Well, I['m pretty sure it isn't Charley Pride..
*I'm
geez. time to get a new eye prescription.
Catchy name--Dwight Yocham?
Travis Tritt. Went on. Twitter rant after Beyonce's CMA performance a couple weeks ago.
Travis Tritt
"Racist Country Singer"
LMFAO how fuckin redundant is "racist".
Waylon Jennings.
Hank Williams Jr?
Married three times. Very catchy name for country music.
I bet he f*cks Asian girls when he's drunk/ they throw themselves at him/ he has a chance. The worst kind of biggot- double standard for woman/ everybody eles/ but himself.
Never engaged, let alone married.
Good guess. Also on his third marriage, had a #1 single on his first album.
i was thinking 'back in the day' was longer ago than tritt would be, but the 'catchy name' part fits. along with what he said about beyonce.
Too old for Enty. The Travis Tritt guess makes the most sense given Enty's supposed timeline of involvement with music in the early-mid 90's, his first single being a #1, and the fact Tritt is on marriage # 3.
Enty the race-baiter.
ALL Of them.
@Salaam. I coukd not rememberHank Williams 3rd. I listen to Country Classics on occasion and he has some Confederate loving songs. There is also a super offensive song about hang them high or something like that. I thumbed that down of course. The whole genre is racist as is some aspects of hard core hip hop, heavy metal and what not. The old stuff is good and really dont care about Travis, Blake or anyone else. What the heck happenned to Tim Mcgraw??? He really aged in the last year!!! Is he ok?
Why would his ex wife's family believe him over her? Why do his friends and coworkers intervene when someone makes racist remarks, but ignore women who are getting beaten in front of them?
So racism should just be ignored so that we don't bother you?
STFU troll.
ALL of them? Dolly and Darius Rucker included?
RME
Travis Tritt is actually the exact opposite of racist. He is extremely liberal. I have had the pleasure of spending time with him on several occasions. His previous wives cheated on him.
Zilla1 don't bother with the libtards.still butthurt and lost after an embarrassingly delicious and deserved loss.
Billy Ray Cyrus. There's all sorts of weirdness in that family.
He didn't come off as liberal in his rant about Beyonce.
@zilla. Sorry i meant some of the genre, not most. Just like some of hip hop, speed metal and punk.
Not really appropriate to gloat. Hillary won the popular vote by almost 2 million, which means that many more Americans did not want Trump than did. Not so embarrassing. Or delicious..
Here are Travis' tweets from after the awards show. Sadie, Pepper Anne, and Norma, kindly point out ONE racist (or even non-liberal) thing in these statements. If you can't, you have just proven to the world that YOU are the racists, on top of being weak, triggered snowflakes. Congrats!
"Thanks to everyone who came out to see us in Bowling Green, KY tonight. Sorry we weren't able to do any Beyoncé for all the country fans."
"FYI - My band and I are gonna try to work up Beyoncé's "All The Single Ladies" for all you die hard country fans who love traditional music!"
"I want to know when the BET or SoulTrain awards are gonna ask a country artist to perform on their awards show?"
"As I see it, country music has appealed to millions for many years. We can stand on our own and don't need pop artists on our awards shows."
"I love honest to God country music and feel the need to stand up for it at all costs. We don't need pop or rap artists to validate us."
See how much more sense things make when you take them in context (or bother to read them before offering your uninformed liberal whining)?
So glad I was able to teach you something about how adults learn and communicate. More lessons to come, no doubt.
Tragically your desperate @popular vote and a nickel can't get you a ride on the subway.. or the House of Representatives,Senate-Congress called and you are officially off duty for 8 blessed years-thanks for supporting democracy non the less by your weak ass,unpopular (and by that I mean your candidate LOST), vote -hey you tried!!!
You would likely serve yourself (and a brutally failed bid to hold the highest office with a criminal history )better baby ,before assuming the role that was always yours to
Lose because people with a brain reject libtards #umwisemoveladymacbeth#lookingforsecretarialwork#good references#lied#TRUMP
They can't. They are fed with poison from a very young age , and not given air, sunlight or oxygen =libtard
Did I mention how sore of LOSERS they are?
Why so angry, sweetie? After all, by your POV you're the one "winning" at life and we all suck. I think you are just yet another sad, pathetic, lonely person who has no one in your life because no one can stand to be around you. I feel for you, because I'm capable of feeling for other people.
Chin Up Chelsea(pun intended with that mug:)Without parental fame you would be waiting tables still and pretending to be nice.
THanks for that whirlwind of -dust- OKay - but A) Im male "sweetie so get your shit aligned B) you have said more than once you re Canadian). So why are you speaking to/on a subject you have absolutely no practical input on-hoes Trudeau working for you doll! And your country - how goes it?
Oh that's right.....nobody gives a shit.
That Clinton chick is one one ugly motherfucker/ like mom
Umm Mr. Marlo. Dont forget to send a post card when your drafted to fight Isis in syria. Jokes on you jack.
@SDAuntie, you won't hear Hank III on classic county. Maybe you mean Hank Jr, his father.
From Wikipedia about Travis Tritt: Ken Kragen was an A+ manager.
Davenport also helped Tritt find a talent manager, Ken Kragen. At first, Kragen was "not interested in taking an entry-level act," but he decided to sign on as Tritt's manager after Kragen's wife convinced him.[14]
Ahh. Thanks@max. Its hard to keep track when they have the same name. The 3rd one is obnoxious kind of like troll Brexis/Marlo.
Fixated on her. Must be your type.
A. Must be an old woman.
B. Incoherent. Geritol overdose.
Foreign scum.
Brexis just has to ride a camel down the block to fight Isis.
Go away, illegal.
TL;DR.
Not a big beyonce fan but I would like to hear the disgust when "Pop" and trying to sound "RnB" singer Justin Timberlake performed with Chris Stapleton. Nobody was mad a pop singer stormed the show, but Beyonce does it and everyone is up in arms. Also Travis Tritt went along and named all the "black artists" he's worked with during his career as not being a racist but if he performed with one on the show wouldn't that be a double standard? BTW I had no idea who Travis Tritt was before this.If the dixie chicks want to perform with whoever more power to them but I don't think any artist should be forbidden on performing any genre of music they see fit. BTW if he wants to perform at soul train or bet awards shouldn't he take it up with the producers of the show?
Yes, of course, but it's always been meaningful in showing the state of the mind of the country and guiding the new president in how to lead and embrace everyone.
The election is over. It might be advantageous to relax, stop fighting, and be one country.
The election is over. It might be advantageous to relax, stop fighting, and be one country.
That explains why Marty Stuart got mad earlier this year in concert when people started yelling for him to play his songs he used to sing with Travis. He finally said, 'It will be $50 more to play those.' They shut up then.
Where were you during the Kenyan birth certificate, Occupy Wallstreet and Tea Party BS?
Conservatives split this country in two a long ago.
Its your turn to live with it.
Google Theresa Nelson Tritt - she looks racially mixed - maybe native, black or East Indian. Not sure how he could be so racist and marry someone who looks mixed.
Kenny Chesney.
The pec implants. Really?
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