Country music legend, Dolly Parton, has revealed her thoughts towards the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement.
The ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement has been on the forefront of major political, social and cultural discussions in the US and Europe recently after the police killing of black man George Floyd in May.
Ever since the killing of Floyd at the hands of police, there have been street protests, online campaigns, and even new laws were created to highlight and mitigate police brutality towards black people.
Parton said “I understand people having to make themselves known and felt and seen, and of course Black lives matter. Do we think our little White a**es are the only ones that matter? No! There’s such a thing as innocent ignorance, and so many of us are guilty of that. 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 dumba**. That’s where my heart is. I would never dream of hurting anybody on purpose”