{"id":12879,"date":"2021-02-18T06:11:51","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T11:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/uncategorized\/2021\/02\/luke-combs-apologizes-for-past-use-of-the-confederate-flag\/"},"modified":"2021-02-18T10:52:47","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T15:52:47","slug":"luke-combs-apologizes-for-past-use-of-the-confederate-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/02\/luke-combs-apologizes-for-past-use-of-the-confederate-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Combs Apologizes For Past Use Of The Confederate Flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luke Combs gave a sincere apology for his past use of confederate images on photos and videos during a\u00a0panel discussion at the Country Radio Seminar.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There&#8217;s no excuse for those images. I&#8217;m not trying to say, &#8216;This is why they were there and it&#8217;s okay that they were there.&#8217; It&#8217;s not okay. As a younger man that was an image I associated to mean something else. As I&#8217;ve grown, I&#8217;m aware of how painful that image can be to someone else. I never want to be associated with something that brings so much hurt to someone else. I apologize for being associated with that. Hate is not part of my core values.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Back in 2015, Luke was featured in the video for Ryan Upchurch&#8217;s &#8220;Can I Get an Outlaw&#8221; in which he was seen performing in front of several Confederate flags. His guitar at the time also included stickers with the flag.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ikxnz2NIdxI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Maren Morris was also on the panel and she owned-up to her naive past.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m from Texas. This is just sheer ignorance and privilege, but I did not know that the rebel flag meant what it meant until I was 15 or 16 years old. That &#8216;southern pride&#8217; thing and &#8216;the south will rise again,&#8217; those were just terms thrown around. There was no explanation behind it. I think [some] people who listen to country music don&#8217;t know that either, the deeper meaning of what that.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other Luke Combs news, he&#8217;s has made the list of the 100 most influential people in the world, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/collection\/time100-next-2021\/5937668\/luke-combs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Time\u2019s TIME100 Next list<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He joins a who&#8217;s who of global superstars in their respective fields who are &#8220;poised to make history,\u201d according to TIME.<\/p>\n<p>[twitter id=&#8221;1362031183048159232&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>And on Thursday, February 18th, Luke will share a live concert from his pre-pandemic<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;What You See Is What You Get Tour&#8221; was was filmed\u00a0at Rupp Arena in Lexington, Kentucky.<\/p>\n<p>It will Livestream for free on Luke&#8217;s official Facebook and YouTube channels.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hTf-GpvajGM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luke Combs has apologized for his past use of confederate images.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":12369,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[78,22,2745],"class_list":["post-12879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-luke-combs","tag-maren-morris","tag-time100-next"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 19:38:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/02\/luke-combs-apologizes-for-past-use-of-the-confederate-flag\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12879"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12904,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12879\/revisions\/12904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}