Last year, a lesbian writer shared she was assigned “20 Transphobic JK Rowling Quotes We’re Done With.” It was our first confirmation that editors assign writers clickbait, and expect them to fill in the holes. Keep that in the back of your mind.

Luke Combs (straight/white/male) has a hit with his cover of Tracy Chapman's (black/female/lesbian...or I guess we say "queer" now) hit "Fast Car." As an oldhead who grew up in the 80s and who, unlike millennials and zoomers, knows that America existed prior to Barack Obama in 2009, I can tell you the Chapman's song was HUGE. It was all over the place. Chapman was one of the top stars in pop music. The song was such a hit, it was parodied on sketch comedy shows.

So of course the journalisming content creators at Washington Post felt it necessary to try and create racism and homophobia where none existed.

In 1989, Tracy Chapman won the Grammy for Best New Artist and Best Folk Album and was nominated for Album of the Year.

"Fast Car," in 1989, won Best Female Pop Performance and was nominated for Record of the Year and Song of the Year. Apropos of nothing, the winner of those awards was another black artist. Bobby McFerrin for "Don't Worry, Be Happy."

On top of all this? Black, queer, and female Tracy Chapman OWNS the publishing rights and songwriting credits so she is getting a lion's share of the royalties on Combs' hit. A point that was made IN the content WaPo created, where they went searching for -isms and -phobias anyway.

We could celebrate this. We could be happy that Luke Combs -- yes, even though he's a dude who lacks melanin and is attracted to members of the opposite sex (his wife is FIIIIIIIIIINE) -- is introducing Chapman as an artist to an entire NEW generation of music fans. In normie-America, where people are able to listen to music with each other in peace, this is what's happening.

WaPo needs to create hate by looking for people who are unhappy. Example #217 of why journalsiming as an institution should shut the f*ck up when they are called an enemy of the people.

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