A top U.S. journalist has urged the Dixie Chicks to follow Lady Antebellum’s example and change their name, insisting it’s “the epitome of white America”.The trio famously raised eyebrows for criticising former U.S.
leader George W. Bush’s war policies, and now the Goodbye Earl hitmakers are under fire again – from writer Jeremy Helligar.In a new column for Variety, Helligar argued the band should rethink its name, writing: “Regardless of its origin, for many Black people, it conjures a time and a place of bondage.” Helligar went on to explain that: “Dixie, for the record, is the epitome of white America, a celebration of a Southern tradition that is indivisible from Black slaves and those grand plantations where they were forced to toil.
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