How Rolling Stones Founder Exposed Himself as Run-of-the-Mill Racist

InAmerica, nothing is race-neutral, not the <a href="https://zora.medium.com/even-the-air-is-racist-58dc34af94d4" rel="noopener">quality of air</a> that we breathe in our communities or the music that comes bustling out of our speakers. Like every art form, music is shaped by artists' perspectives. Within genres like country or rock-and-roll, the music scene is overwhelmingly white. Last summer, Jason Aldean's song "<a href="https://readcultured.com/how-try-that-in-a-small-town-became-a-white-supremacist-anthem-2b18d65a8115" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Try That In a Small Town</a>," which celebrated lynching culture, topped the charts as a white supremacist anthem, something that could never happen without a fanbase aligning themselves with these views. Like country, rock and roll has a long legacy of racism. During the 1950s, as the genre took shape, Black groups like <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/the-rope-the-forgotten-history-of-segregated-rock-roll-concerts-126235/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">The Flamingos</a> had to perform in the South at <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/the-rope-the-forgotten-history-of-segregated-rock-roll-concerts-126235/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">segregated theatres</a>. White artists would regularly "borrow" some of the same songs and mannerisms Black artists created. <a href="https://readcultured.com/how-rolling-stones-founder-exposed-himself-as-run-of-the-mill-racist-5a638dde4581">Visit Now</a>