I take two weeks off from Salty Vixen world, my brand and people are making a mountain out of a molehill from a song called “Try that in a small town” by Jason Aldean. I am laughing at the nitpicking because woke people don’t like facts.
Reminds me of school, when you present facts to a teacher, the teacher will put you down saying you are wrong , when you prove the teacher you are right. And the teacher will try to make you feel bad for yourself and get peers to bully you.
With that said, Jason Aldean has taken a lot of heat over “Try That in a Small Town,” a track some have deemed a pro-gun, pro-violence, “modern lynching” song.” Aldean has vehemently denied those depictions of the tune that challenges those who would “pull a gun on the owner of a liquor store” or “cuss out a cop” to, as the title suggests, try those actions in a small town to “see how far ya make it down the road.” The fall-out from the song released in May, and its even-more controversial new video, however, continued to rage on Wednesday night.
And a Tennessee State Rep. Justin Jones (who earlier this year was expelled and reinstated to the House after leading a gun control protect on the House floor following a school mass shooting in which three children and three adults were killed) decided to go to CNN and speak up about a song that is FACTUAL from news events that CNN and others covered, hence clips the song had on the music video… said the following,
“As a Tennessee lawmaker, as a youngest black lawmaker in our state, I felt like we had an obligation and a duty to condemn this heinous vile racist song that is really about harkening back to days past,” said Jones, 27. The lawmaker said in his mind it was “no accident” that the video was filmed at the Maury County Courthouse, “where the race riot happened and where as well as the 1927 lynching of a young man who was 18-years-old, Henry Choate, occurred.” Choate was lynched by a mob and hung from the courthouse’s second floor after accusations that he sexually assaulted a white girl; in February 1946, the city that houses the courthouse was the site of a race riot in which two Black men were killed.
Jones said he sees the song as an attempt to normalize “racist, violence, vigilantism and white nationalism,” while “glorifying” a vision of the South that he said the state is trying to move forward from.
Dear Mr. Jones- why on earth are you making a mountain out of a molehill of a singer who was stating facts? I am curious did you grow up in a small town? No? ok. Listen to the podcast for the full story.
people argue too dang much now-a-days. Nobody wants to listen or learn facts. Kind of sad how the world is becoming..
Thank u guys. Ready to see u back out there this weekend! 🇺🇸🤘🏼 pic.twitter.com/qtH8yUdpLy
— Jason Aldean (@Jason_Aldean) July 24, 2023
