It’s a song that makes a point of breaking down the challenging, lonely, alienating aspects of being a cowboy without ever acknowledging that not every baby grows up believing that becoming a cowboy is even an option.
“You can’t be,” Marian Wright Edelman is credited with saying, “what you don’t see.”
The erasure of the Black cowboy from the American mythos sounds frivolous until you give it a second’s thought and realize that if cowboys are integral to the American mythos and Black cowboys have been erased from that cultural tapestry, it’s tantamount to nothing less than erasing the Black experience from the American experience.
This quick and easy journey from micro to macro, from seemingly inconsequential to objectively integral, is at the heart of Peacock’s new docuseries, High Horse: The Black Cowboy.
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