Thread by @BryanDeanWright

Cancel country music & the military?

“The music,” @JM_Thompson writes, “retains a reputation as a genre made by & for white Southerners.”

The military should thus drop it from recruitment events.

I asked a USMIL recruiter — a gay Latino — for his response.

Here’s what he said

“That’s dumb.”

The USMIL uses different genres of music when trying to reach different recruits, he explained.

“All depends on place and market we target. At car races, we use pop and country, for example.”

“You mold to your market.”

So what does he play for prospective black or Latino recruits?

“I can play anything for that market. We do a mix of country / pop / Latin / hip hop.”

The gay Latino soldier added: “My people dance and get hyped to anything. Lol.”

But what of the allegation that country music is made by and for white Southerners?

“I have always listened to country.”

He continued, “There are great Black singers.”

Kane Brown is his favorite.

“Look, racism is real and prevalent,” he added, “but I hate that people make these crazy connections to try and prove something that’s not there.”

“It takes away from the real fight and issues.”

Upshot: A gay Latino soldier can see what’s really happening.

People like @JM_Thompson are using tropes and bigoted stereotypes of anyone or anything — country music lovers, in this case — to push a narrative:

“White America” is bad.

It must be dismantled.

It’s a shame facts don’t matter anymore.

Because if they did, Prof. Thompson would admit that country music is a growing genre, fueled by people of color & the young.

Just ask the Country Music Assn, if you don’t believe the gay Latino soldier.
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Bottom line: Prof @JM_Thompson is trying to destroy America. Our music. Our military.

He’s a race baiter, advancing his bigoted cause under the lie of social justice.

Retract your essay, Thompson.

Resign from @msstate.

Mississippi deserves better.

America deserves better.