RIP CHARLIE PRIDE

This is last year, where Charlie was still performing at 85 years old...Note  0:04 the audience of "deplorables"

@ 3:00 of his 2017 interview

When I when I first started 

giving interviews and all different  

reporters would say: "now Charlie how does 

it feel to be the Jackie Robinson of 

country music?",  or "how does it feel to be 

the first colored country singer?" or "

how does it feel to be the first Negro 

country singer" or Charlie how does it  

feel to be the first Afro- American 

country singer?" I said I feel the same way as when I was "colored" 

 I don't feel no different..... so 

I try to narrow it down to that and they 

say "well which one do you want?" I said well "

that's four of them,"  I said "well I'm 

Charlie pride the staunch American!"