'How can you say Black Lives Matter and put your knee on the neck of another Black artist?'
"They’re using the name because of a Black Lives Matter incident that, for them, is just a moment in time. If it mattered, it would have mattered to them before. It shouldn’t have taken George Floyd to die for them to realize that their name had a slave reference to it."The country band first formed in 2006.
The blues singer went on: “It’s an opportunity for them to pretend they’re not racist or pretend this means something to them. If it did, they would’ve done some research. And I’m not happy about that. You found me on Spotify easily — why couldn’t they?”“For them to not even reach out is pure privilege," the 61-year-old continued."I’m not going to lay down and let this happen to me.
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