{"id":659351,"date":"2013-05-21T17:32:59","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T21:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=231275"},"modified":"2013-05-21T17:32:59","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T21:32:59","slug":"darius-rucker-racist-tweet-garners-disbelief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/659351","title":{"rendered":"Darius Rucker: Racist Tweet Garners Disbelief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Darius Rucker, formerly of Hootie And The Blowfish, has found a hit in his version of the old Dylan song &#8220;Wagon Wheel&#8221;. But some aren&#8217;t impressed with his rendition, apparently, and one <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.chron.com\/celebritybuzz\/2013\/05\/darius-rucker-responds-to-racist-tweet\/\">naysayer<\/a> took to Twitter to call him out on his move to country in a pretty despicable way.<\/p>\n<p>User PQKullman wrote, &#8220;Leave country to the white folk,&#8221; to which Rucker replied, \u201cWOW\u2026 is this 2013 or 1913? Ill take my grand ole Opry membership and leave your racism. Wow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unfortunate that Rucker had to be on the receiving end of such a negative country fan, but he appears to be taking it all in stride. He later tweeted:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>Gotta go to bed this has been hilarious tonight. If any hater thinks I care what u think. I don&#8217;t make music for u. So don&#8217;t listen.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Darius Rucker (@dariusrucker) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dariusrucker\/status\/336338898311589888\">May 20, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>When one of Rucker&#8217;s followers commented, &#8220;Bet he wouldn&#8217;t say that to Nelly&#8217;s face,&#8221; Rucker shot back, &#8220;?Wouldn&#8217;t say it to mine, either.&#8221; And he makes a good point; social media sites, while good places to connect with people, are also havens for those who know they can hide behind a screen name. Unfortunately, it doesn&#8217;t seem as though cyber-bullies will be going away anytime soon.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=rGNxguG_lYE:HD_DCVEyTWw:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=rGNxguG_lYE:HD_DCVEyTWw:wF9xT3WuBAs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=rGNxguG_lYE:HD_DCVEyTWw:wF9xT3WuBAs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=rGNxguG_lYE:HD_DCVEyTWw:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=rGNxguG_lYE:HD_DCVEyTWw:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=rGNxguG_lYE:HD_DCVEyTWw:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=rGNxguG_lYE:HD_DCVEyTWw:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=rGNxguG_lYE:HD_DCVEyTWw:mfZ73u_VV2s\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=rGNxguG_lYE:HD_DCVEyTWw:mfZ73u_VV2s\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/webpronews\/all\/~4\/rGNxguG_lYE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darius Rucker, formerly of Hootie And The Blowfish, has found a hit in his version of the old Dylan song &#8220;Wagon Wheel&#8221;. But some aren&#8217;t impressed with his rendition, apparently, and one naysayer took to Twitter to call him out on his move to country in a pretty despicable way. User PQKullman wrote, &#8220;Leave country [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}