Washington Post Humiliated After Trying to Make Country Cover of Tracy Chapman's 'Fast Car' a Racial Issue

Washington Post Humiliated After Trying to Make Country Cover of Tracy Chapman's 'Fast Car' a Racial Issue

The Washington Post bent over backward to make a white country music star’s cover of a black artist’s tune into a racial issue, but many of the paper’s points turned out to be fake news. On Thursday, the Post published a deeply flawed piece by style reporter Emily Yahr titled, “Tracy Chapman, Luke Combs and the complicated response to ‘Fast Car.'” But when all was said and done, it seems that the whole thing is only complicated to Emily Yahr, no…