Dolly Parton has been tagged a racist on social media after one user reviewed their shocking experience from one of the Country legend’s recent ‘Dixie Stampede’ shows.
Is Dolly Parton racist? Here’s what this TikToker thinks
The TikToker, @xanthehorrorfan, posted a review of her experience at Parton’s annual festival, and suffice it to say, they highlighted several disturbing events that allegedly took place.
The TikToker explained they were in Tennessee, US, for their brother’s funeral and to cheer themselves up, they decided to attend Parton’s famous Stampede.
“[I] figured it’d be cool, horses, tricks… [I] wanted to check it out,” the user said.
The TikToker acknowledged Parton’s philanthropic work in many communities, and thus, witnessing the racist events that allegedly unfolded at the Stampede left her utterly dismayed as a die-hard fan of the Country icon.
The horse tricks were an eyecatcher but, according to @xanthehorrorfan, things quickly turned awry when she found out that audiences at the Stampede were divided into the north and south side, a historical sectional difference on the issue of race and slavery that prompted the US Civil War of 1861.
According to the TikToker, not only did the Stampede tell its own version of the Civil War, where colonisers responsible for the pillaging of native Americans were hailed as ‘civil settlers’, but it also included deeply problematic embellishments and triggering re-enactments.
Here’s the full TikTok video that’s since gone viral:
@xanthehorrorfan #CapCut #CapCut I will never go back. Please share to make a change, #exposed #racism #racist #colonizer #blm #indigenous #nativetiktok #indigenoustiktok #review #reviews #tennessee #wtf #dollyparton #dollypartonstampede #representation #representationmatters #share #accountability #awareness #raiseawareness #raisingawareness ♬ original sound – XanTheHorrorFan
Back in 2018, at the height of the Black Lives Matter movement, Parton was forced to remove the word ‘dixie’ from her annual ‘Stampede’ after social media commenters slammed the Country icon for aligning with the Confederacy.
Quoted in a Billboard article published at the time, Parton simply chalked off the backlash as “innocent ignorance.”
“There’s such a thing as innocent ignorance, and so many of us are guilty of that,” she said.
It seems while the name of the show has, indeed, changed, old traditions tied to the Confederacy still exist. Here’s how social media reacted to the viral TikTok: