{"id":61822,"date":"2016-11-25T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T08:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=61822"},"modified":"2020-08-06T07:53:31","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T07:53:31","slug":"oh-boy-if-you-think-beyonce-does-not-belong-on-a-country-stage-you-are-labeled-a-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/25\/oh-boy-if-you-think-beyonce-does-not-belong-on-a-country-stage-you-are-labeled-a-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh Boy, If You Think Beyonce Does Not Belong on a Country Stage You Are labeled a Racist ??"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<h2 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-61823\" src=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/travistrittcountryhero.jpg?w=750\" alt=\"travistrittcountryhero\" width=\"750\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/travistrittcountryhero.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/travistrittcountryhero-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/travistrittcountryhero-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/travistrittcountryhero-768x433.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/>Travis Tritt Responds to Beyonc\u00e9 Backlash: <\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>\u201cRace Has Nothing to Do With It.\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Earlier this month, following <span class=\"st\">Beyonc\u00e9<\/span>\u2018s performance with the Dixie Chicks at the 50th annual CMA Awards on Nov. 3, Travis Tritt\u2014as well as many other country music fans\u2014took to Twitter to voice his thoughts about the presence of non-country artists performing at country music awards show.<\/p>\n<p>While many agreed with what Travis had to say:<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"st\">Beyonc\u00e9<\/span> fans\u2014also known as the Beyhive\u2014set their sites on Travis, attacking him via social media for what they believed were racist and derogatory comments.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Nash Country Daily<\/em> had a chance to sit down with Travis after the Twitter battle to talk about his new album, <em>A Man and His Guitar<\/em> (more on that next week), his comments regarding the CMA show and the backlash.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211;\u00a0by <span class=\"entry-author vcard\"><span class=\"entry-author-name\">Lisa Konicki |NashCountryDaily<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travis Tritt Responds to Beyonc\u00e9 Backlash: \u201cRace Has Nothing to Do With It.\u201d Earlier this month, following Beyonc\u00e9\u2018s performance with the Dixie Chicks at the 50th annual CMA Awards on Nov. 3, Travis Tritt\u2014as well as many other country music fans\u2014took to Twitter to voice his thoughts about the presence of non-country artists performing at country music awards show. While many agreed with what Travis had to say: Beyonc\u00e9 fans\u2014also known as the Beyhive\u2014set their sites on Travis, attacking him via social media for what they believed were racist and<a href=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/25\/oh-boy-if-you-think-beyonce-does-not-belong-on-a-country-stage-you-are-labeled-a-racist\/\" class=\"read-more\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73858,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61822\/revisions\/73858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}