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00:00In any place where black people have been erased from the cultural history is a place
00:22where we always have to start from scratch.
00:24We always have to prove we existed.
00:29The cultural heist is probably the most lucrative part of the death of the black cowboy.
00:36From the look to the hat, the music, even horse racing, all of that cultural treasure was
00:45taken, co-opted, and commodified by white people.
00:52Not only do they take it, they don't want you to have any part in it.
00:56This afternoon, 19 horses will run for the roses in the Kentucky Derby.
01:04It's America's most prestigious horse race.
01:11It was a very big wake-up call for me to attend the Kentucky Derby and to see this closed-off culture.
01:19I mean, just blatant on the red carpet, someone came up and said, oh, Tina Knowles is next.
01:26And the other young lady walked up and said, oh, no, because we need a...
01:34And ran right into my face, and I said, a white person, she just went behind me, got the couple behind me and brought them on.
01:41So it's racially charged there.
01:43It's a lot of racially charged energy, which is ironic because we really started this stuff.
01:49That's unbelievable, man.
01:52Our history has been erased.
01:56When I came up, it was a whole lot of black jockeys.
01:59When we were, when I was a kid.
02:01And when I became a white person, she just went behind me, got the couple behind me and brought them on.
02:06that's unbelievable man our history has been erased when I came up it was a
02:13whole lot of black jockeys when we were when I was a kid
02:21horse racing was a black tradition and a black form of competition black man was
02:31on top of the horse the black man trained the horse they did everything those who
02:37knew how to race were considered athletes it was a vaunted position akin to what is
02:44now a LeBron James or Steph Curry 13 jockeys of the first Kentucky Derby were
02:52black and they ruled racing black jockeys won 15 of the first 28 editions of the
02:59Derby these people started this sport and now you look up you don't see a
03:03single jockey that's black what transpired in between time to get these people out
03:08of this sport when horse racing became really popular jockeys began demanding
03:16more money and more compensation the white horse owner said well we can't let
03:22black people get all this money so when the white jockeys unionized essentially
03:28they excluded black jockeys from competing it was hard to justify a black man
03:35winning when blacks were supposed to be inferior not only weren't they given
03:40credit for what they did they were frequently excluded entirely
03:58let's put these here by your d Daniel Alexander was my great-great-grandfather he is known as a horse
04:15breeder trainer for initially his enslaver Daniel Alexander was well known for racing and raising horses to the
04:26point that his name was even published in newspapers which would have been unheard of
04:30great-great-grandfather trained handled one of the founding horses for the quarter horse breed
04:38you know a certain subset of Americans would have you believe slavery taught us something that it gave
04:45us the opportunity to learn new skills the rest of us will say that's a joke and the same goes for
04:50cowboyism in West Africa horses are synonymous with spirituality and ability strength and high
04:55social status and despite enslavement black folks connection to horses never faltered
05:00the thought process has always been black people at Johnny come lately's in the horse world I want to
05:16institute and these kids that this is my place this is home this is where I am me and I don't have to
05:25fight for my place I don't have to fight for position I just have to be I thought when I graduated high
05:33school that was it but Miss Kelly had a different plan for me we had a farrier aka blacksmith coming to
05:41shoe our horse Fred got interested in that we sent applications out to every ferry in school in the
05:47country including Cornell Cornell they only accept three students a year and never really had a black
05:56barrier student the minute I got there it was like hey you sure you want to do this kind of work this is
06:03hard work this is real man work like you know just experiencing comments like that it was intimidating for
06:09me you know I felt outnumbered and all the years that I'd been telling him about racism and what
06:20it looks like and how it operates happened right there he fought his way through and he was the first
06:30black barrier to graduate from this program and he's a successful barrier today this isn't a common
06:38business for black people as a matter of fact when I show up to the barns they're kind of like you're
06:42the farrier like man who's this dude from the city thinking he about to shoe my horses but once they let me
06:48under their horses I let my work speak for itself the way I talk to their horse the way I treat their
06:53horse there's history from there we have a special bond with these horses when you do something so good
07:07and you stand in it so deep it will always leave an imprint through the end of time in the 1850s there
07:17were seven individuals here who successfully fled slavery on horseback and the reason that that
07:31equates to great-great-grandfather great-great-grandfather taught everybody how to ride
07:35it's phenomenally exciting to think that we were on the same land riding horses
08:00in a place where so many people made their way to freedom it's our land and it's it's it's freedom
08:08history has shown not just for the black jockey if you leave black men alone the kingships will rise
08:20rise and that's what's been the fear from the beginning everyone from the jockeys to the trainers
08:31they got erased they don't get their flowers and it hurts
08:35in the contemporary era they named a horse black lives matter so that every time he won his name would
08:47have to be announced to the viewing public
08:50black lives matter black lives matter black lives matter black lives matter
08:55see the horses went that way when I call them see they went behind the fence
09:15the cows say over here so if they ever lost when I call they come that big mama right there
09:27I give them a little food for obeying me you know
09:31I'm definitely a cowboy that's I was born into cowboyism you know so uh wearing boots living on the farm
09:44I think in the story needs to be told that the first cowboys were black cowboys but the cowboy
09:51has been taken away from the black community the hands are gone the skill this Tay Tay so this is the
09:57famous everybody's horse here this is what everybody rides she's a great pet she's got a good handling good
10:03attitude mayhem is the roping horse that's in training and then we go to the race horses
10:10horse racing was my favorite sport out of anything
10:18this is what I grew up doing you know I saw my daddy and brothers do it tonight we're hearing
10:26the story behind a family who has made history here in the state of Texas this is the Hatley family and
10:31this is the first black family in Texas to race quarter horses and that's my daddy and me man where
10:38did my daddy get the gall where he was going to be the only black student horse racing and talk noise and
10:44fight and win the biggest misconception is that it's not a black bad sport and he can't do it
10:51video of the horse winning his first race went viral but it's the name the announcer calls
11:08that was the hardest stiffest name I could think of to and make him say it so they had to say he had
11:30to call his name that woke up the world everybody wanted to come see it everybody want black lives
11:40matter shirts but when they tried to officially change the horse's name to black lives matter they
11:47told me that uh couldn't name him that it's controversial and I was like have you seen what
11:52these horses were named nigger tom and bull nigger and nigger nigger run and big nigger are you kidding
12:05me honestly like I can't believe y'all worried about black lives matter but with such derogatory names
12:12like this and you have no problem with it the Hatleys say it took the threat of legal action to get the
12:20decision changed that's where the shit hit the fan at right there this is black lives matter he was
12:31elected during a routine veterinary procedure and unfortunately lost his life
12:39they say they saw red flags instantly when the vet's behavior started to
12:50change when they learned that BLM was named after the black lives matter movement the reason he had
12:56to go to the vet was to get sperm drawn from him and then get him castrate very simple procedure
13:02I just kind of said I just sat down there for a minute like this can't be real you know what I mean I just should have never left his side
13:29it had to be some hatred we told you don't name him that so we don't find you another way to stop you
13:38racism was the number one issue in his death there
13:45take a hit on the chin I think about that man like shh but then
13:52you hear my daddy say get up
13:56let's try it again
14:00I thought about naming him black lives matter too you know and people told me
14:05don't name a horse nothing like that no more
14:07it's like what
14:08each one of these names we name these horses it gives history lessons the history that's been
14:28destroyed and taken away
14:34so right there something has been done to keep the culture and the legacy living
14:38black wall street cows want it pull up
14:45if you want it faster say the word
14:51if you want louder make it hurt
14:55I'm a black cowgirl true American cowgirl
14:58if you want to ride the way the past
15:00that history tried to erase
15:02today we're gonna find the best horse the fastest horse of all time
15:09my old goal was to have a derby horse and win the derby
15:13when you erase history there's another picture that comes after that
15:17and that picture looks like me
15:30walking into that Kentucky Derby owner's box
15:33ooh
15:34seats you could only dream of
15:36when cameras get to flashing
15:38ended up on Vogue, Fox, local news
15:45looking out there seeing my horse cross that finish line
15:48every derby I went to my horse won
15:51that's a good feeling
15:55I represent people that have been left out
15:58that have been kicked down off of that horse
16:01that will be forever nameless until we let the world know
16:08I just want to like you know a feel good record
16:23something with some soul in it
16:25some blues or something you hear me
16:26right
16:27so like that back in the day vibe
16:28but we put a twist on it
16:29okay
16:30I'm feeling like a
16:31I represent 3,000 years worth of ancestors
16:36I'm digging in my roots
16:38I'm strumming my guitar
16:39I'm letting the land talk to me
16:41and I'm letting the music speak through me
16:43well I got my boots and my guitar
16:46we've always made this type of music
16:48this is years of being overlooked
16:50this is years of being undercooked
16:52feeling like you gotta make a way out of nothing
16:54it's a vibe bro
17:09it's important for me to show up and show out head to toe
17:12because when I walk up in there they know it ain't nothing to play with
17:15you ain't gonna like how good Nashville looks on me
17:20some people don't like it
17:22some people ain't got no choice
17:24cowboy culture gives country music its aesthetics
17:28its sound
17:29it gives it its origin story
17:32hey hey y'all gonna turn it up
17:33turn it up
17:34how much of its cultural repertoire has the images of the west
17:39of the cowboy
17:41it comes with a history that's already whitewashed
17:44all this right here y'all gonna have to rewrite that
17:46rework that
17:47the lie that is told about the origins of country music
17:50is that it is the authentic voice of white American identity
17:55but that story doesn't reckon with the multiracial complicated history
18:01of country music
18:03it was music of the country
18:05it was a combination of the Irish
18:07the Germans bringing over the oompa of polka music
18:09the recently freed slaves bringing the banjo into the world
18:12all of that happening in negotiation with the peoples who were already here
18:17so Native Americans are lending mythic storytelling culture
18:21music is the thing that all races share and it's sort of better
18:27when it's everybody playing it together
18:30wherever it comes from is important you gotta know your history
18:33but whatever hands it ends up in
18:35there's no telling what could happen
18:37and the banjo is one of those things
18:39the banjo has a deep history that I think has been lost
18:44one of the greatest influences of country music has been the African American community
18:49the banjo the instrument comes from Africa
18:51they brought that with them here when they were enslaved
18:54how did that music evolve into being claimed by one group of people
19:05they have been shaming black people for playing the banjo
19:09they had to separate this from its African origins to unblacken it
19:14so in 1841 Joel Sweeney a white black face minstrel performer
19:19did what everyone has always done to anything that black Americans have brought to the table
19:26he took the banjo out of our hands and put it in theirs
19:30and put it in theirs
19:31this award went to the Carter family who basically invented country music
19:39oh my god
19:41the Carter family absolutely owes a lot of their musical repertoire to the black artists around them
19:47Leslie Riddle transcribed the songs that we know and love for the Carter family to record
19:53he also taught them his guitar style
19:56you've got from its founding days black musicians lending country music its rhythms its instrumentation
20:04you can't sell black music directly to the growing white middle class
20:08so you had to sell white artists versions of that music
20:12see white folks they like the blues just fine
20:14they just don't like the people who make it
20:16originally there was what they call race music
20:19which was an actual billboard chart
20:22and everything else was separate charts
20:25the race music charts
20:28the race music charts
20:29was just songs sung by black people
20:35and so when you saw a country chart it was white people singing the blues
20:38but black people couldn't be on the country chart
20:43they'd have to be on the race music chart
20:46and what was funny and sad at the same time is
20:52sometimes there would simultaneously be the same song
20:56on the race music chart sung by black people
21:00you ain't nothing but a heart
21:02and white people singing the same song
21:06but it would be a country hit
21:08you ain't nothing but a heart
21:10because black people could not be included in other kinds of music
21:17all of our music was race music
21:23and that chart existed until the 1950s
21:27that's when they changed the race music chart
21:30to the rhythm and blues chart
21:31and then to the r&b chart
21:33and then r&b and hip-hop
21:34there's a new song that went viral in the last week or so
21:37that is by all accounts a banger
21:40billboard took the song off the country charts
21:51when it was just starting to gain popularity
21:53saying it didn't have enough elements from today's country music
21:56now they put it on the rap charts instead
21:58and that move prompted a whole lot of backlash
22:00that decision earned one big hmm
22:08billboard responding by saying their decision
22:10had absolutely nothing to do with the race of the artist
22:13in the 21st century
22:15black people cannot find their way onto country charts
22:19and i think that's absolutely stunning
22:21and an indictment of the industry
22:23it is a multi-billion dollar industry
22:28and black people are excluded
22:30how dare them close that genre off to us
22:34it's just a great example of the erasure in this country
22:48i'm blanco brown and i'm from atlanta georgia
22:50when i came into nashville
22:53i got introduced to songwriters and producers
22:56some of them laughed said it wouldn't work
22:59some of them said is this a joke
23:04when you talk about country music you have to talk about nashville
23:07nashville is the machine
23:09that overwhelmingly controls the boundaries of authenticity
23:14it's definitely challenging to get into country music
23:17and be successful at it
23:18not only are you fighting nashville
23:21you're fighting country radio
23:23they told me they would never play my music
23:25they said what is these
23:27they were talking about 808s
23:29i said those are drums
23:35country music radio almost unilaterally controls
23:39who gets to be a legitimate country music artist
23:42and who gets radio play
23:43and who can make money in the industry
23:45i think of country music radio as being like the mob
23:50right
23:51actually i think the mob wishes it had some of the legal power that country music radio has
23:56the gate keeping in country music is unbelievable and the racism that goes along with that
24:07and why do you have such fear
24:09it's the only thing that makes you desperate enough to try to hold on to something and to stop other people from engaging
24:17in 2016
24:20in 2016
24:21so beyonce
24:22beyonce comes out with the dixie chicks
24:23with the cmas
24:24you know it's a little bit of a bomb to go off in nashville
24:27fans exploded with hatred for beyonce and the dixie chicks for collaborating
24:31it's just a sham
24:33beyonce did a self-serving song from her own album
24:36forget it i hated it
24:37the whole thing is fast backwards and i object
24:41oh okay y'all don't have space for the biggest black performer of our time
24:47what
24:48he's not even country
24:51it just feels as though the black southern community were being told that they didn't have a claim to the south in that one moment
24:58nashville has always been known to keep their music their music you didn't grow up here in country music so kind of tell people how you arrived in nashville what brought you here
25:11i did grow up in country music i'm from memphis tennessee i got a scholarship for yodeling that's how i paid for college
25:21hate mail's been a part of my life that's just the way it is i mean we still get it you know there's still people
25:26people that don't want me to be singing country music
25:29it's ironic that when we started off we were told all the time that we were too country
25:33wear some cow girl
25:35wear some cow girl
25:37the label told me y'all look like country western girls because y'all are from texas
25:41yeah
25:43and now you know you're not country enough
25:46only in country music is it acceptable to have a litmus test for who can participate that hinges on
25:54not what kind of music they make but who and what they are
25:58most would-be stars arrive in nashville long on ambition and short on knowledge of the music business
26:06because america needs some place to sort of keep all of its ideas about what it means to be american
26:16it is a sonic safe space for whiteness to be nostalgic for the good old days
26:30the face of the grand ol opry audience is the face of america
26:35and the music of the grand ol opry is the heart beating out its hopes its fears and its grief
26:42country music becomes country music only once it excludes black artists
26:50but that's the story of making country music into this cultural juggernaut that it is today
26:56it only becomes that if it can serve white interest and that's been true from its inception
27:03there were many clubs many stages where you didn't appear because promoters were afraid
27:08for that face to be seen by audiences
27:12i was blessed to have a conversation with charlie pride meant the most
27:17when it comes to some of the things he had to go through the hatred especially at the time he did it
27:24and still be able to be great at what you do that takes a lot
27:28black artists like linda martell were absolutely punished for trying to be authentic artists
27:34they wouldn't let her sing in different venues
27:36she couldn't really make a living from singing country music
27:39she was driving the bus for schools you know
27:42i learned about linda martell through my daughter she researches these artists and pays homage to them
27:50people say oh well she's rewriting hit no you rewrote the history
27:55we are just going back and straightening the story out
28:03the grammy goes to cowboy carter
28:12we have his blessings
28:15when beyonce dropped cowboy carter people were gagged
28:18the energy that she brought
28:20you could tell the cmas pissed her off
28:22the storytelling is very aggressive almost
28:25there's like a guttural insistence upon being heard and seen
28:28and it's not asking it's telling
28:31she said i am a girl from texas
28:34all of that culture belongs to me
28:36and if i dare step into your arena
28:39my shit gonna be better than yours
28:42cowboy carter was amazing to work on
28:44beyonce and i worked on that for a while
28:46we put it out for the world
28:47it really just shocked the world
28:48it really just stopped the world
28:49this woman was galloping on a golden horse across the air
28:53just singing and waving to the fans
28:55those fans was popping
28:56those fans would pop out here
29:02searches into cowboy attire cowboy decor
29:06all went through the roof
29:08it literally was a break
29:09the internet
29:18cowboy carter is now the highest grossing country music tour of all time
29:23that's some black girl magic right there
29:28that whole album is saying who isn't country
29:31because i most certainly am
29:33and if i am country then other black people are country too
29:38and we don't need permission to be here
29:42i don't care if you didn't like the album
29:43i don't care if you don't like beyonce
29:44i don't care if you don't like black people
29:46i really don't give a fuck
29:47because tonight we won big
29:50she's settling scores with the history of erasure
29:53she loops in a lot of black artists including linda martell
29:57other black country singers like tanner adele and rayna roberts
30:00received the beyonce effect
30:02where their streams were up exponentially
30:04cast up
30:06throw me in a saddle
30:08spin me like a spark
30:09tanner gained thousands of new followers
30:12cast up
30:13round on my cattle
30:15looking like beyonce with a lasso
30:17i'm a buckle bunny
30:19drop my own truck
30:21got my own money
30:23it just sent a whole momentum of young black artists
30:27to just live their truth and sing their song
30:30and i feel like in this time and day that's what we need
30:33that's what people need to relate to
30:34people was dressed up
30:36they were suited and booted
30:37boots was on the ground
30:38with social media the truth can't be hidden anymore
30:41i like that that shakes things up
30:43get up out your seat
30:45i absolutely believe that social media is reversing
30:48what traditional media did in erasing the black cowboy
30:56i don't need to go to anyone in traditional media to get their permission to bring a story to the forefront
31:02i don't need the traditional media i've got my own audience and my ability to reach them and let them know the stories that are important to me and the activations that they should take to participate in the culture
31:19and i think it's the same for a lot of the cowboys
31:21and i think it's the same for a lot of the cowboys
31:25come on
31:27he's a proud girl right here now
31:29three generations right here where y'all from
31:31me sick
31:33wait a minute
31:35wait a minute
31:37wait a minute
31:39wait a minute
31:41wait a minute
31:43wait a minute
31:45wait a minute
32:07i'm booted up
32:09man i'm booted up
32:11They all listening to the trap, the street music coming out of mostly Atlanta.
32:18But for them to have that kind of sound, but it's like themed cowboy, so it's like the
32:23wordplay and the references and all the things that go into the music from our vantage point,
32:28they just like, man, this is where it's at, you know what I'm saying?
32:33A cowboy isn't just being on the farm and dealing with the horses, a cowboy is everything.
32:38Do you know how serious cowboys take what they wear?
32:41I've noticed very profoundly how people respond to me when I'm in my full ensemble of cowboy.
32:47It's a whole nother level of respect.
32:49The hat we choose to wear matters, bro.
32:52Every time I get a new hat, I get a new hater.
32:55Ooh-wee!
32:56Oh, this one hard right here.
32:58Look at the boots with the turquoise on it.
33:00Ooh, you going crazy.
33:02Come on, Epp.
33:03You know, this my hat lady, J. She do all my hats.
33:06But ever since I met Ebony, we've just been taking off to the moon.
33:11My fashion is baggy rich.
33:13I mean, LVs, them with $40, you heard?
33:16But most importantly, you got to be comfortable.
33:18That's when you a boss.
33:20You got to be comfortable.
33:22Black people are feeling comfortable to say, you know what?
33:25This is our style, and we're going to do it unapologetically.
33:29We make everything cool, though.
33:31All fashion trends that happen start right here,
33:36with Black women, Black men, our Black culture.
33:45The essence of the culture is not only about pushing fashion forward,
33:49but is about using fashion as a way to signal social change.
33:53We had to figure out ways to make something out of nothing.
33:59What we can't do, as people of color,
34:02is continue to try to find a seat at a table
34:05where we may or may not be welcomed.
34:07Black cowboy fashion is so fire
34:09because we just took the power back in our own hands
34:11and shed the light on ourselves.
34:13It's amazing to see something like what Pharrell is doing
34:16with Louis Vuitton on such a grand stage.
34:19His fall and winter 2024 runway show was just in Paris.
34:23Set against the backdrop of the American Wild West,
34:25Pharrell said he wanted to model and feature
34:27what the original cowboy looked like.
34:29If you go back in history with anything,
34:33we always are at the start.
34:35And now that that is being showcased in a real way,
34:38I think that's beautiful.
34:40Pharrell's been a pillar in fashion
34:42since the late 90s, early 2000s.
34:44He's discovered some things about his history
34:46that he wanted to bring to the forefront.
34:48We export more culture than any other group in the world.
34:51African Americans do.
34:53Yo, what's up, man?
34:55What's up, how you doing?
34:56Amazing, I heard you were the one.
34:58Yeah, no, I heard you were the one.
35:00You're already in Nashville showing out.
35:01I just got to get these moves clear, you feel me?
35:03Because I'm just so used to freestyling.
35:05Yeah, I got you.
35:06I'm going to show you everything you need to know.
35:07Okay, cool.
35:08We're going to go five, six, seven, eight.
35:12Go right, left, right, and left, left.
35:15One of the biggest misconceptions
35:18is that you line dance to traditional country music,
35:21the white country artists that we know.
35:23One at a time.
35:24Five, six, seven, eight.
35:25Oh, he's teaching electric slide.
35:26I know that.
35:27Back, back.
35:29Yeah.
35:30Back to the left.
35:31Oh, yeah, that's easy.
35:32The electric slide is one of the most popular line dances.
35:35That's black culture.
35:37Black people were the originators of buckra dancing,
35:41which became buck dancing, which became tap dance,
35:44and then it became line dance.
35:46Toe the buck.
35:47Back tapping, huh?
35:48You can even trace back Beth to an incident
35:52called the Stono Rebellion and a black cowboy named Jemmy.
35:56Jemmy, an Angolan warrior, was the original cowboy
36:02who didn't give a fuck.
36:04On September 9th, 1739, he and 12 other enslaved cowboys
36:10gathered on the banks of the Stono River
36:12with an idea that they were going to set everyone free.
36:17Because Jemmy, as an Angolan warrior, communicated to the troops
36:24through these movements that looked like dance,
36:28the slave codes also banned dancing, playing instruments,
36:35because they knew that black people getting information
36:40was a danger to white people.
36:42Five, six, seven, eight.
36:44Step, step, step.
36:46Then cowboy boogie.
36:47Grab your sweetheart and spin out with him.
36:49Do the hoedown and get in.
36:51You can't stay down when you're here to get up.
36:53Take it to the left now.
36:55I put up a song and the world spoke.
36:57Take a sip or win it out and lean back.
37:00Put your head.
37:01It's a lot of harmony in line dancing.
37:04It could bring people together.
37:05Wait, Wawa West has its own line dance?
37:07Does it have its own line dance?
37:10All right.
37:12Gonna do the two-step.
37:13Then cowboy boogie.
37:14Grab your sweetheart and spin out with him.
37:17Do the hoedown and get into it.
37:20Take it to the left now and dip with it.
37:24Don't throw down.
37:25Take a sip with it.
37:27Where did you learn to dance?
37:29Because I see him on TikTok and I learn him.
37:32I know.
37:39So imagine waking up one morning and it's all gone.
37:49Anything that can be grasped once it is shown to be successful or something to be wanted
37:59or desired, black people's possession of it becomes only an invitation for it to be grabbed.
38:05There's a cycle of theft that continues today.
38:17The deconstruction of Black Lives Matter Plaza is complete.
38:23Here we are again.
38:32But we're ready.
38:37Our story is a story of pride.
38:39And it's a story of love and action and fortitude no matter what.
38:48It's a showdown.
38:49It's a long time coming.
38:51Us being proud and happy to be black takes nothing away from anyone else or their culture.
38:57It's just important for us to speak up and to remind the world who we are and that we have
39:04the right to be in any space that we choose to be in.
39:09As a black cowboy, you got to keep beating the drum for justice and you can't never give up.
39:17The minute you give up, all those people win.
39:22What's going to happen is we're going to stop settling for the cycle that we've been in for centuries.
39:27Which says that black people are supposed to be subjugated.
39:30We're supposed to be second class citizens.
39:32We only deserve what white people tell us we can have.
39:35So I want to see more black people participating in this take back era.
39:43Whether you're doing it through the clothes, the trap country or the food and the high on the hog type reclamation.
39:50We are including ourselves in the legacy and the culture of the music and the art that we created.
39:57Doors wide open.
39:58Everybody come on in man, let's have a good time down there.
40:01Look at you.
40:03Come on, that's joy.
40:04That's pure joy, man.
40:07I think everybody is starting to come on going like, yeah, we proud of this, you know.
40:11Woo!
40:12I think at first we may have been shaming country music or horseback riding.
40:17You know, now that everybody's coming out and saying, we've been on this.
40:21Every story about a black cowboy makes America a better place because that's our real history.
40:26This is how we roll.
40:27Roll it down.
40:28The black American cowboy represents all of the noblest parts of that American archetype.
40:34Independence, grid, and uncompromising definition of self.
40:40In the black cowboy, we all can see ourselves and see what we each want.
40:45And it's not that I want it at the expense of you.
40:47I actually want it for you too.
40:59Long live black cowboys.
41:01Cowboys.
41:02Oh, you do-si-do your way into my heart.
41:05Do-si-do.
41:06Got me dancing up on it, I'm touching stars.
41:10Do-si-do.
41:11I don't ever think this love's falling apart.
41:15Cause you do-si-do your way into my heart.
41:21Into my heart.
41:23Two-stepping with a twist of fate.
41:26Square dancing in a fancy place.
41:28Smelling like those cookies from the scouts.
41:32Sweetheart, you don't stand the chains.
41:36I got you spinning like a cellophane.
41:38I can see you floating in the clouds.
41:42One, two, step one.
41:45Footy, footy next to you.
41:47Hoping out your chest.
41:50Say the dance for me.
41:52Oh, you do-si-do your way into my heart.
41:56Do-si-do.
41:57Got me dancing up on it, I'm touching stars.
42:01Do-si-do.
42:02Hope.
42:07Ho, you, your face.
42:09Bye-bye.
42:10Go do-si-do.
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