Everyone is chiming in and now even Kenny Chesney has something to say about Riley Cooper using a racist slur at his concert. Kenny wants to make sure people know that that’s NOT what he or his audience is about.
Check out what he had to say…
Via ESPN:
Chesney reached out to ESPN senior writer LZ Granderson about the incident and said: “All I do is get off my bus and try to give the fans all the heart and passion I got. That’s where it starts and stops; that’s all I think about.
“I’m as shocked as anyone to see the video of Riley Cooper that’s started circulating on the internet. I don’t believe in discrimination in any form, and I think using language like that is not only unacceptable, it is hateful beyond words,” Chesney told Granderson.
“I don’t know everything about every player who comes to our shows. We invite the teams in the places where we play, and I’ve found the guys from the NFL are some of the most inspiring people I meet all year. They give back to their communities, work with children, hospitals and various charities, as well as raising awesome families.
“To judge an entire audience by one loud mouth isn’t fair … not to the NFL, not to the city of Philadelphia and that awesome crowd, not to my band and crew and certainly not to me, who believes music is about bringing people together for friendship and forgetting about the things in life that bring you down. The music I make is about living life, loving life and loving everybody — no matter who they are. That’s how I was raised, and what someone else does or says doesn’t reflect who I am or what my fans stand for.”
