This Land Is Your Land

It’s been a busy week for country music and the post-Black Lives Matter, post-Trump, post-white-nationalists-insurrection America. Country music is having its come to Jesus moment, and proving yet again that their Jesus is a blue eyed white man.

A music form that is aggressively dedicated to being white had to reckon with the presence of race this week, which it really hates doing. The occassion is one of the biggest up-and-coming stars in country, Morgan Wallen, was caught being racist on tape.

In the footage, Wallen looks drunk. He is being loud, obnoxious and likely not for the first time. You can tell because his neighbor starts recording the event. Wallen can be heard saying n*gger, with the hard -er, several times, referring to himself and to his buddies, over and over and over again. What we learn from this is that in addition to having a penchant for being racist when he gets drunk — according to him, that’s the only time it happens — Wallen is also a horrible neighbor. Your neighbor doesn’t pull out the cell phone to video tape the first time you piss them off. They pull out the cell phone to video tape after you have pissed off the neighbor more than once