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Cries of racism are now the default reaction to, well, anything.
If you think only one anthem — “The Star-Spangled Banner” — should be sung at the Super Bowl, you’re a racist. If you prefer white pickup trucks to black ones, you’re a racist. And if you don’t associate Beyoncé with country singing, you’re a racist.
When the county radio station 100.1 KYKC out of Ada, Oklahoma, initially declined a request to play one of Beyoncé’s new country songs, accusations of racism blossomed like stinkweed after a summer rain, according to Today.
The single “Texas Hold ‘Em” was released from the album “act ii” of the three-part “Renaissance” project set to debut on March 29. The song was released on Sunday, along with “16 Carriages.”
A listener — @jussatto — requested that the country station play the song. When the station declined through an email response, the listener posted it on X.
KYKC called it like they saw it, “We do not play Beyoncé on KYKC as we are a country music station.”
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