OMG. She is not country. She just thinks if Taylor [Swift] can switch genres, she can. Another redditor called her music ghetto trash.
He tweeted, I love honest to God country music and feel the need to stand up for it at all costs. We don't need pop or rap artists to validate us.
At their core, these responses encapsulate a historic belief that certain people get to decide who can be a cowboy and make cowboy music, and who can't.
Both enslaved and free Black people were central to the cattle industry that was a crucial part of the economy during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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