Dolly Parton Keeps It Simple: “Our Little White Asses” Aren’t the Only Ones Who Matter
Dolly Parton tweeted on Thursday night with a Santa Claus emoji. She was referring to the surprise drop of her “A Holly Dolly Christmas” merch, but might as well have been announcing another surprise drop that came just a few hours later: a Billboard cover story that marks the 74-year-old’s official departure from her apolitical past. “There’s such a thing as innocent ignorance, and so many of us are guilty of that,” she said on the subject of Dolly Parton’s Dixie Stampede, a Dollywood drive-in attraction that faced criticism in 2017 for glamorizing the pre-Civil War era South.