{"id":9615,"date":"2020-05-22T16:00:31","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T20:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=9615"},"modified":"2020-05-22T10:11:10","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T14:11:10","slug":"john-rich-cowboy-troy-talk-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2020\/05\/john-rich-cowboy-troy-talk-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"John Rich &amp; Cowboy Troy Talk Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ybR8lbqzPnk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Cowboy Troy opened up about the time someone threatened to kill him if he performed at a show in Kennesaw, Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>He revealed it in an <a href=\"https:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/6157031276001#sp=show-clips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">upcoming episode of &#8220;The Pursuit! With John Rich&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>An anonymous person called in with the threat, and there was talk of cancelling the show. But Troy wanted to do it. So they beefed-up security and dropped all the before and after stuff including the meet-and-greet.<\/p>\n<p>In the interview Troy didn&#8217;t want to reveal who made the threat, so John took it from there.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;You don&#8217;t want to say it, but I&#8217;ll say it. It wound up being the KKK. You run into the most vicious, disgusting group of human beings that exist. But you went and did [the show] anyway because you&#8217;re like &#8216;this is my American dream and you ain&#8217;t getting in the way of it with your racist B.S. so I&#8217;m gonna take the stage and you&#8217;re going to have to deal with it.&#8217; Man, my respect level went through the roof for you when I watched you take that on.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Rich and Cowboy Troy talk about facing down the KKK.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":9621,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[306,4205,4206,4207,4208,4209],"class_list":["post-9615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-concert","tag-cowboy-troy","tag-john-rich","tag-kkk","tag-racism","tag-the-pursuit"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 18:09:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2020\/05\/john-rich-cowboy-troy-talk-racism\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}