Tennessee Brando's Feb. 20, 2024 YouTube Video Entitled "Bo Duke Compares Beyoncé To a Dog" (video & complete transcript)

Tennessee Brando, Feb. 20, 2024

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Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post showcases a Feb. 20, 2024 YouTube video that Tennessee Brando published in response to actor/singer John Schneider's comment about singer Beyoncé releasing a country song. 

The complete transcript of that video that was provided on YouTube is included in this post.

An online article's excerpt of John Schneider's comment about Beyonce is also given in this pancocojams post.

The content of this post is presented for historical and socio-cultural purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

 
Thanks to Tennessee Brando for sharing information about the history of country music. Thanks also to Tennessee Brando for his overall social and political commentary and for standing up to bigots.
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Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2024/02/did-black-people-create-american.html for the closely related pancocojams post entitled "Did Black Americans Create The American Country Music Genre? (Update Of 2022 Post)".

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INFORMATION ABOUT TENNESSEE BRANDO
Tennessee Brando is a White American man. His YouTube channel www.youtube.com/@TennesseeBrando gives the following information in its "About" section:
"The YouTube Channel for Social Commentator, Singer Songwriter and Meidas Touch Contributor “Tennessee Brando!” -snip-
Here's some information about MeidasTouchNetwork From https://www.youtube.com/@MeidasTouch
"About MeidasTouchNetwork:
[MeidasTouchNetwork is] "The fastest growing independent news network in the world. We cover breaking news, politics, law and more. We are unapologetically pro-democracy. Because TRUTH is golden"

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INFORMATION ABOUT JOHN SCHNEIDER
John Schneider is a White American man. Here's a brief excerpt of his Wikipedia page:
"John Richard Schneider (born April 8, 1960) is an American actor and singer.[1] He is best known for his portrayal of Beauregard "Bo" Duke in the American television action/comedy series The Dukes of Hazzard....

Alongside his acting career, Schneider has been a country singer since the early 1980s, releasing nine studio albums, a greatest hits package, and eighteen singles. This total includes "I've Been Around Enough to Know", "Country Girls", "What's a Memory Like You", and "You're the Last Thing I Needed Tonight", all of which reached the top of the Billboard country singles charts.

Early life

Schneider was born on April 8, 1960, in Mount Kisco, New York, the youngest of three boys for Shirley Conklin (1932-2016) and John "Jack" Schneider III (1930-2013), a pilot who had served in the U.S. Air Force.[2][3] His mother is from Sanford, Florida."...
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Here's information about The Dukes Of Hazzard" television series
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dukes_of_Hazzard
"The Dukes of Hazzard is an American action comedy TV series created by Gy Waldron, that was aired on CBS from January 26, 1979, to February 8, 1985, with a total of 147 episodes produced, spanning seven seasons. It was consistently among the top-rated television series in the late 1970s and early 1980s (at one point, ranking second only to Dallas, which immediately followed the show on CBS's Friday night schedule).

The show is a retelling of the English folk tale Robin Hood and features two young male cousins, Bo and Luke Duke, who live in rural Georgia and are on probation for moonshine-running. Probation prevents the "Duke Boys" from owning guns and the duo are armed with bows and arrows and clever plans to outwit a corrupt sheriff and greedy rich "city slickers." Their female cousin Daisy Duke, and other family (such as patriarch Uncle Jesse), live in a secluded country home in the woods where they plan various escapades to expose and evade county commissioner Boss Hogg and law officer Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane. The "Duke Boys" drive a customized 1969 Dodge Charger nicknamed the General Lee, which became a symbol of the show."...

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EXCERPT OF JOHN SCHNEIDER'S COMMENT ABOUT BEYONCE RELEASING COUNTRY SONGS 
From https://www.huffpost.com/entry/john-schneider-beyonce-dog-country-music_n_65d221f9e4b0ce1bdc39cf60
"Actor John Schneider compared Beyoncé to a dog marking its territory while talking about her dive into country music on conservative cable news channel One America News Network earlier this week.

The “Dukes of Hazzard” actor trashed the 32-time Grammy winner as he talked with OANN host Alison Steinberg about how Beyoncé’s fans pushed to get one of her new songs, “Texas Hold ’Em,” played on a country music radio station in Oklahoma.

Attributing how country music has changed over the years due to “a lot more crossover music and acts like Shania Twain and Carrie Underwood,” Steinberg then brought up the backlash that KYKC 100.1 FM faced for not playing Beyoncé’s new song.

“The lefties in the entertainment industry just won’t leave any area alone, right? They just have to seize control over every aspect, don’t they?” Steinberg asked.

“So that’s what’s going on here. Shania and the other folks you talked about, what they did was they were in country music and they went out. That’s one thing,” the actor continued. “But people coming in to country music — because I know a little something about country music — they seem to think that it’s easy or it’s simple, or somehow it’s not as sophisticated as the music they sing otherwise.”....

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TRANSCRIPT OF TENNESSEE BRANDO'S FEB. 20, 2024 VIDEO ENTITLED "BO DUKE COMPARES BEYONCE TO A DOG"

This transcript is presented as it is found on that YouTube page, but without its time markings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeFZ6GzwGxs

"well old Bo Duke is at it again yeah

actor John Schneider who pretended to be

a good old boy on the TV show The Dukes

of Hazard he's upset with Beyonce

because Beyonce released a country song

and he actually compared Beyonce

releasing a country song to a dog taking

a piss on a tree folks I'm not making

this up there's absolutely no low that

these people will not go to magga has

absolutely no bottom he goes on this

right-wing TV show and the host started

off by saying this she said the lefties

in the entertainment industry won't

leave any area alone they have to seize

control over every aspect to that

hairbrain to comment I would say this

magga Republicans do not own everything

okay the flag doesn't belong to Mega

Republicans this country does not belong

to MGA Republicans the Bible does not

solely belong to Mega Republicans and

neither is country music okay so any

left leaning person out there any black

person anybody that wants to sing a

country song has just as much right as

John Snyder but of course he has to

chime in to come back with this idiotic

remark he he says they got to make their

Mark just like a dog in a dog walk Park

every dog has to Mark every tree so yeah

he compared Beyonce to a dog and said

that she was like a dog that just had to

take a leak on every tree because she

released a country song and then he goes

on and he talks about how that he knows

a thing or two about country music he

says you know I'm not talking about

people that started off as country

artists and left country music he said

to these people that are coming in to

country music I know a thing or two

about it well I don't think he knows

jack and I don't think he would go

into talking about all the influence

that black artists had on country music

and the fact that black people created

country music and contributed so much to

it I doubt very seriously that he would

go down into that well and tell us the

truth about those things but I'll be

glad to do it for you Bo I'll be glad to

help you out here okay because if you

want to talk about the influence that

black artists had over country music how

about we talk about Arnold Schulz who

was a fiddle player and a guitar player

his fingerpicking style heavily

influenced Bill Monroe who is considered

to be the father of Bluegrass and Merl

Travis who's one of the most imitated

country guitar players of all time both

those men were influenced by a black man

by the name of Arnold Schulz then you

had Rufus ttop Payne he taught Hank

Williams senr how to play the guitar now

Hank Williams Senor is arguably

considered the greatest country singer

songwriter of all time but he learned

how to play his guitar from a black man

named Rufus Payne then you had D for

Bailey he was the first black artist to

ever play on the grand old opery you had

lesli riddle whose guitar playing

influenced the Carter family again the

Carters are considered one of the

founding fathers of country music but

yet they drew their influence from

Leslie riddle you also had Henry Glover

he was one of the few record Executives

back in the day that was black who

scouted for King records and wrote songs

for artists on the label then you had

Linda Martel she was the first black

woman to ever play the grand old opery

and you can't not talk about Charlie

Pride who had 29 number one hits and he

was RCA's second bestselling artist

behind Elvis Presley so if Bo Duke wants

to talk about country music I know F

you're too about it listen save your

phony accent and your pretentious good

old boy for somebody else okay

because I will be glad to give credit

where credit is

due and I'm so sick and tired of people

like this having a problem with anything

that doesn't go their way it's so it's

so ridiculous that he would even comment

on it that he would even care and then

we'll sit back and go I ain't no racist

person come on man how many people have

sang some of the most bastardized

songs that ever came out used

every cliche used every stereotype they

could to cash in on it to to come out

with the country song how much

manufactured pop country have

we seen and there was crickets from John

Schneider complete crickets you want to

know why there was crickets you want to

know why he didn't have nothing to say

about those artists because that's

exactly what he did back in the 80s when

he's out there pretending to be a good

old boy he cashed in on Southern

stereotypes and Southern Culture and he

bastardized it and it took me years to

grow up and learn that because I was a

kid of the 80s I grew up in East

Tennessee Southeast Kentucky in this

part of the world if you grew up back in

the 80s yes it was the most popular show

yes we all watched it I couldn't wait

till I heard whan's guitar start and I

would run down the hallway to see it

come on I couldn't wait to see the

general Le do that big jump I had the

car I had a little big wheel gener Le

big whe I would take it out and try to

jump ramps with it to emulate what I

seen but then I grew up and I realized

that so much of that television I grew

up watching was a bastardization if

that's even a word of my life and people

begin trying to imitate

that and call that Southern Culture and

that's why I grew out of it and grew

away from it I don't think it's the

worst show of all time no I don't I I I

don't think it was necessarily a racist

show I've never said that I don't think

those things but I think it's absolutely

racist for somebody to go out here and

call out Beyonce like this and call and

compare her to a dog and you didn't have

a word to say about all these people

that absolutely bastardized the

genre all the people that absolutely

cashed in on the genre there's all kinds

of people that came into country music

you didn't say nothing about that what

about Aaron Lewis I'm sure he didn't say

nothing about him because he comes in

with his whole don't tread on me stick

and I'm sure oh Bo of

that but country music does not just

belong to any one certain group of

people anyone has the right to make it

and I went and listened to the Beyonce

song and I don't understand what the

problem is with it as a matter of fact I

think she did it justice I think she did

it a lot better than a lot of people out

there posing as country

singers and all it's going to do to

people who truly loves country music all

it's going to do is bring people into

the fold and it's going to broaden the

genre and it's going to turn people on

to things because when Beyonce sings A

Country Song people's going to dive in

and for those that care enough to dive a

little deeper they'll dig in and find

the pioneers of country music and if

they dig back far enough they'll realize

wait a minute for everybody that was

upset over this black woman sanging a

country

song black people created the damn genre

to start

with"

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