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I’m a 63 year old Black man who grew up loving Johnny Cash, and still consider him one of my all time favorite.

AS A NATIVE AMERICAN ,I CAN TELL YOU MOST OF US HAVE ALWAYS RESPECTED JOHNNY CASH! THANK YOU FOR STICKING UP FOR US , JOHNNY !!!!❤❤❤❤

They didn't want Johnny Cash to have Charley Pride on his show but cash showed them!😂😂😂😂 Respect!

Back then, you just went by what you were told by your family. He was extremely dedicated to the cause of justice for Native Americans.

Why all the debates about racial heritage? If Johnny stood up for Native Americans and advocated for their rights, that’s what truly matters to me

15 minutes of a history lesson, 15 seconds to answer the question i came for

DNA is a curious thing. My grandmother was Cherokee. In this day and age of testing some of her children have tested out as having Cherokee DNA and some have not, yet she birthed all of them. This is possible because our parents can only contribute so much DNA each time a child is conceived and obviously this means not all of their DNA will translate to the max 50% they can contribute. My mom was crushed she tested as having no Cherokee DNA. But that doesn’t mean her ancestors are any different than her siblings and this is documented in the census rolls they use to determine native bloodlines. So she does have Cherokee ancestry and she is registered with the tribal council. So don’t let anyone misinterpret what can be documented by birth records. If it’s paternal lines it might be shaky but not when the bloodlines are maternal. All my grandmothers births were witnessed and her being the mother is not in question. Genetics is a lottery.

Met the man when I was a teen. I was dating his cuz and he walked in thanksgiving with June. They both were about the most down to earth folks you could ever meet.

Am Jamaican n have ALWAYS LOVED his music…n he loved Jamaica…. Cash and second wife, June Carter, actively supported the construction of an SOS Children’s Village in Jamaica, on a plot of land in Barrett Town not far from their own holiday home.

The country music star later dedicated one of his songs, “The Ballad of Annie Palmer,” to the children of the village, donating all royalties from the song to the SOS Children’s Village. When discussing his decision to make this contribution, Cash said, "It will mean that more abandoned children can have hope, find love and have a future."

As often as possible, Johnny and June would visit the village, Cash usually bringing his guitar and singing with the children.

We all have a dark side and none of us are anything close to perfect.

Sometimes it's just better to remember him for his music.

Lol.. my father was 'arrested' with Mr Cash picking those flowers over in Starkville.  The reason it was such a fuss was they were picking them on the Dean's lawn at Mississippi State & his wife just freaked out. I heard that story more times than I can remember. My Papa was in this organization called the JayCees & they had sponsored the concert Mr Cash had done. My family still brews moonshine over in Alabama & that's what they were drinking that night. My family used to put Jimson Weed in their shine. It adds a very hallucinogenic property to the shine. Basically,  Mr Cash & my Papa were tripping ballz that night

Whether or not Cash had native American blood, he spoke for Native people.

His first wife was beautiful, stunning.  His daughter looked like her mother.  Lucky her!

My dad used to run around saying he was American Indian. I took a DNA test and found that he was English and Spanish.

Wasn't a table saw. It was a huge saw from a sawmill that cuts lumber from trees. What a horrific injury!!

Can we all just enjoy his amazing voice and songs... PLEASE? RIP, Cash! Your real fans will always love you and miss you terribly.

First, it wasn't a table saw; it was a sawmill. Also, all Johnny Cash fans know he was never in prison; and he never claimed to have been. As for the Cherokee claims, many people, including myself, were told as children we had native blood, only to discover in recent years, through DNA testing that we do not. J.C. was a huge advocate for American Indians.

If he was native American in spirit, than he was, and that is a special gift! Native American on both sides of my family and I am proud of that!