Luke Combs Apologizes for Past Use of Confederate Flag Imagery
Country singer Luke Combs is apologizing for his earlier use of Confederate flag imagery.
The 30-year-old performer took half in a Country Radio Seminar occasion on Wednesday, Feb. 17, the place he mentioned fellow singer Morgan Wallen‘s latest controversy over video showing him using the N-word.
Luke instructed moderator and NPR critic Ann Powers and participant Maren Morris that he himself has modified over time. He addressed the truth that he used the Confederate flag in earlier pictures and within the 2015 music video for Ryan Upchurch‘s model of his music “Can I Get an Outlaw.”
“There is no excuse for those images,” Luke shared. “I think, as a younger man, that was an image that I associated to mean something else. And as I’ve grown in my time as an artist, and as the world has changed drastically in the last five to seven years [when the images were created], I am now aware how painful that image can be to someone else. … I would never want to be associated with something that brings so much hurt to someone else.”
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The Grammy nominee continued, “I apologize for being associated with that. Hate is not a part of my core values, and it’s not something I consider a part of myself at all.”
Luke mentioned he believes step one is acknowledging an issue exists, and that he’s proof individuals can change.
“I’m here to learn,” he mentioned. “I feel like I’m at this highly successful moment of my career, and I couldn’t just sit back and not do anything. I couldn’t not say, ‘Hey, I want people to know that we, as a genre, care about this issue.'”
His feedback observe a nationwide reckoning relating to use of the Confederate flag. Earlier this week, Bachelor Nation’s Demi Burnett apologized after a photograph resurfaced of her wearing a jacket with the flag on it.
Last yr, NASCAR introduced that it had banned the flag from its racetracks after driver Bubba Wallace pushed for the initiative.
