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12 Feb, 4 tweets, 1 min read
how hasn't a black funeral home family not been an entire genre by now??? everyone knows they have it all: royalty lines, intermarriage, money, status, power, customs, conflict. The Black discourse about which is the good funeral home alone!
If you are of my clan and you are NOT buried at "Floyds" -- no punctuation, no questions about it -- then you are heathen. Do I know why? No. Will I follow the custom? Absolutely.
It's only a hair easier to marry into a Black funeral home legacy than it is to marry into the British monarchy. Fight your momma.
Anyway, I am saving this show.

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Well lookie there, a handful of Black women just happen to be talking about race, gender & country music on @HearToSlay this week, f. the inimitable @RissiPalmer

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/its…
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Wallen’s timing sucked. The world has been handed to him on a platter. Seventy-two hours ago he was poised to be a breakout pop country-to-rock star. This morning, @SIRIUSXM country-news channel framed their critical response as: “we hate to do it but we just broke up with MW.”
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Not surprised to see this rabbit hole end (or begin?) with anthropology tbh
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