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.
