People pissed at Trace Adkins' Confederate flag ear piece, okay with dead animal around his neck

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People are such goobs sometimes, I swear. 

Last week Trace Adkins performed during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. I watched the whole parade for the express purpose of watching Trace sing. 

Go figure he was like the last performer. 

Anyway, when Trace came on he was handsome as ever but was wearing what appeared to be a full mink around his neck. I kind of laughed about it because I told my husband that his choice of neck warmer was really, really going to piss PETA off. 

A week later and there was not a peep from PETA or any other animal activists about the fur Trace was wearing. Man got off easy because generally when a celeb wears fur the animal rights groups are ready to skin the celeb alive and let some poor cold animal wear their skin. Even if it's faux fur, the activists are out for blood until they get confirmation that it's fake. 

Not that Trace would probably have cared what PETA or anyone else thought about his choice of winter wear, but it still surprised me that no one seemed to have said anything.

Anyway, browsing my feed reader this morning I realized there was a big kerfuffle (yeah, I said kerfuffle) going on now regarding Trace, but not because of the dead animal he wore around his neck during last week's parade AND last night's NBC's Rockefeller Christmas Tree Lighting Special, but because he was sporting a Confederate flag ear piece. 

Seriously?

There was Trace performing in his long coat, full-dead-animal fur collar on proud display and it was the itty bitty piece of sound equipment in his ear that angered people. 

Have to say I chuckled a bit. 

Here's what E! had to say:

Country singer Trace Adkins wore a Confederate flag earpiece last night when he performed during the nationally televised Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting.

Unsurprisingly, the political statement set Twitter afire with protests from viewers who found the statement highly offensive.

So far Trace hasn't commented on his Confederate flag controversy (if that's what you want to call it) and if I know Trace (which I don't but I like to pretend I do), he probably won't because I'm pretty positive he could care less what the world thinks about what he does. 

And I wouldn't have it any other way.   

Comments

[Carol Ann Matuszewski]

Shannnon, YOU GO, GIRL!! Thanks for the post, you couldn't have said it better! Trace DID look DARN handsome in that fur, faux or real, it didn't matter two hoots to me, even though I have to admit that I am not the biggest fan of fur myself! AND most of us fans know that Trace is a true son of the South and an avid Civil War buff, and come to think of it, I never really gave that earpiece all that much thought other than noting that he wore it, and what was the BIG DEAL?! Then, I hear that people are getting all bent out of shape about it! GIVE ME A BREAK, PLEASE! Thank you, Shannon, for being real!!

[Elizabeth Cabrera]

Trace Adkins does a lot of charity work and he is hardly recognized for his doings but here is a group of people that have always something bad to say about EVERYTHING! I guess publicity weather is good or bad still publicity but please, somethings like this complaint its just ridiculous! THIS IS AMERICA LAND OF THE FREE!!! I want to see if all those that are PISSED are purely vegetarians...

[Riley Smith]

I have been following Trace his whole career and have had the privlege to meet and chat with him on numerous occasions and he isn't going to care one bit what people think about his little ole earpiece. In fact, it will give him a chuckle.
People need to get a grip and worry about things that are really important and not get all upset something this trivial. He's been wearing that earpiece for well over a year now and it hasn't bother anyone else.
And as always Trace looked HOT in his long coat with the dead animal around his neck.

[April Yates]

Thought I was the only one who noticed the fur! Some people have little to do when they get in a flap about a piece of plastic@

[Kelli Forbes]

Love this article! :) My feelings exactly.