The statue of the country music legend will be unveiled at the US Capitol

The statue of a white man standing in the US Capitol stands out in post-Obama America, where they are more likely to be torn down, but this is a feat country music legend Johnny Cash will soon enjoy posthumously

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) announced Thursday that a statue of Cash will be unveiled at a dedication ceremony at the Capitol next month, reports said. the hill.

“The ceremony will take place at Emancipation Hall and will be an invitation-only event, Johnson and Jeffries said in a 'Dear Colleague' letter,” the outlet reported, noting that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) also signed the letter.

JOHNNY CASH will get a statue in the Capitol pic.twitter.com/izskHK0Qce

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Expected guests include members of the Cash family and members of the Arkansas congressional delegation — Cash is from the state. Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) will also attend the ceremony, according to a news release from Johnson's office.

It remains to be seen whether the race-obsessed radical left will protest the event.

States are allowed two statues in the U.S. Capitol, and since Arkansas has already honored the DEI cabal with a statue of civil rights icon Daisy Bates, Cash will be the state's second. The election of the country music star known as “The Man in Black” completes the replacement of statues of figures linked to the Confederacy.

He wrote a 1971 protest song titled The Man in Black, released during the height of the Vietnam War, which included these lyrics:

I wear black for the poor and downtrodden
He lives on the desperate and hungry side of town
I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime
But is there because it is a victim of the times?

I wear black for those who have never read
Or listen to the words that Jesus said

[…]I wear it for the old sick and lonely
For the unwary that the bad trip left them cold
I wear black mourning for the lives that could have been
We lose a hundred excellent young people every week

As for Cash's politics, he was a complicated man who held some liberal views on life, while supporting many conservative causes. His friend and collaborator Kris Kristofferson once referred to Cash in a song as a “walking contradiction”.

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