{"id":793653,"date":"2019-03-06T10:23:32","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T17:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=803976"},"modified":"2019-03-06T10:23:32","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T17:23:32","slug":"taylor-swift-on-2020-race-invoking-racism-is-not-what-i-want-from-our-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/taylor-swift-on-2020-race-invoking-racism-is-not-what-i-want-from-our-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift on 2020 Race: \u2018Invoking Racism Is Not What I Want From Our Leaders\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Taylor Swift<\/a> outlines her hopes for the 2020 election<\/span> \u2014 and appears to blast President Trump<\/span> \u2014<\/span> in a new Elle<\/em><\/a> piece. Addressing her recent shift toward political candor, the singer-songwriter writes, \u201cInvoking racism and provoking fear through thinly veiled messaging is not what I want from our leaders, and I realized that it actually is my responsibility to use my influence against that disgusting rhetoric.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

While Swift previously shied away from politics in interviews or on social media, she broke her silence by endorsing a pair of Tennessee Democrats<\/a> \u2014 Senate candidate Phil Bredesen and House Representative Jim Cooper \u2014 in the November midterm elections. In the Elle<\/em> feature, \u201c30 Things I Learned Before Turning 30,\u201d<\/a> the pop star notes that she\u2019s \u201cfinding [her] voice in terms of politics.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI took a lot of time educating myself on the political system and the branches of government that are signing off on bills that affect our day-to-day life,\u201d she writes. \u201cI saw so many issues that put our most vulnerable citizens at risk, and felt like I had to speak up to try and help make a change. Only as someone approaching 30 did I feel informed enough to speak about it to my 114 million followers. Invoking racism and provoking fear through thinly veiled messaging is not what I want from our leaders, and I realized that it actually is my responsibility to use my influence against that disgusting rhetoric. I\u2019m going to do more to help. We have a big race coming up next year.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Swift runs the gamut from quirky to heartfelt throughout the piece, noting both her discovery of Command tape (\u201cI definitely would have fewer holes in my walls if I\u2019d hung things that way all along,\u201d she says. \u201cThis is not an ad. I just really love Command tape.\u201d) and how to process \u201cserious illness\u201d in her family. \u201cBoth of my parents have had cancer, and my mom is now fighting her battle with it again,\u201d she writes. \u201cIt\u2019s taught me that there are real problems and then there\u2019s everything else. My mom\u2019s cancer is a real problem. I used to be so anxious about daily ups and downs. I give all of my worry, stress, and prayers to real problems now.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Swift, who issued her sixth LP, Reputation<\/em>, in 2017, will co-headline the 2019 iHeartRadio Music Awards<\/a> on March 14th.<\/span><\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Taylor Swift outlines her hopes for the 2020 election \u2014 and appears to blast President Trump \u2014 in a new Elle piece. Addressing her recent shift toward political candor, the singer-songwriter writes, \u201cInvoking racism and provoking fear through thinly veiled messaging is not what I want from our leaders, and I realized that it actually […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-793653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 02:26:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}