Dolly Parton On Supporting Black Lives Matter Movement: “Our Little White Asses” Aren’t The Only Ones That Matter
Over the past couple of months, we’ve seen many celebrities who have spoken out or even marched alongside protestors in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. While we haven’t seen or heard much from Dolly Parton, she’s now speaking out to voice her support.
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While speaking with Billboard, the country singer said, “Of course Black lives matter,” Parton told the magazine. “Do we think our little white asses are the only ones that matter? No!” She added:
“All these good Christian people that are supposed to be such good Christian people, the last thing we’re supposed to do is to judge one another. God is the judge, not us. I just try to be myself. I try to let everybody else be themselves.”
Parton’s comments on BLM come just a few years after Parton decided to remove the word “Dixie” from the name of her dinner show attraction, now known simply as “The Stampede.” She spoke on that with Billboard and explained, “There’s such a thing as innocent ignorance, and so many of us are guilty of that,” she told Billboard. “When they said ‘Dixie’ was an offensive word, I thought, ‘Well, I don’t want to offend anybody. This is a business. We’ll just call it The Stampede.’ As soon as you realize that [something] is a problem, you should fix it. Don’t be a dumbass. That’s where my heart is. I would never dream of hurting anybody on purpose.”
As we previously reported, the movement gained worldwide attention after the tragic police killing of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man. Protest swept in an out of the country as people demanded justice for Floyd and all of the other black and brown men and women who have been a victim of police brutality or racial injustice.
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