This week on the Country Music Media Podcast, journalist Marcus K. Dowling joins host Billy Dukes to talk about country music's uneasy relationship with black culture and why white country singers just can't say the N-word.

Read: A brief, sordid history of why country music can't use rap music's "n-word" on Medium

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