"Try that in a small town"

[billvon 2,400]

I'm sure most people know the story behind this controversy, but in case they don't:

The song itself is about a gun-totin country boy who is eager to state that "good ol' boys" will fuck up anyone who tries any sort of crime in a small town.  It has the usual "ain't gonna take my guns" and "those evil big city type" messages.

The problem started when he made the video to accompany it.  It showed scenes of violence alteranting with country folk hunting, having family barbeques etc.  And he filmed it in front of a courthouse.

In 1927, a 16 year old girl was raped in Maury County, Tennessee.  The girl's family called the sheriff.  The sheriff put bloodhounds on the scent.  They could not track the assailant.

Then Henry Choate, a black teen visiting from nearby, was seen returning to his grandfather's house that night.  He was seized by the good ol' boys in the town and presented to the girl who had been raped.  She said it was not him.  He was arrested anyway for lack of a better suspect.

That night, a mob came and threatened the sheriff's wife with a sledgehammer, demanding Choate.  She handed him over to the mob.  They tied him to the back of a car and dragged him a few miles, then went to the courthouse to lynch him out a window.  No one was ever even indicted for the lynching, despite the killers being well known to everyone in town including the sheriff.

His crime was walking while black, and he did indeed "try that in a small town."  The good ol' boys "took care of their own" - and lynched him from a courthouse window.

Viewers of Aldean's video will be well acquainted with that courthouse - it is the setting for his video.

As a comparison, imagine a Muslim singer singing a song about how Allah will always win in the end and punish the unbelievers - with a video for the song filmed at the 9/11 memorial.

[Phil1111 911]

8 hours ago, billvon said:

I'm sure most people know the story behind this controversy, but in case they don't:....

As a comparison, imagine a Muslim singer singing a song about how Allah will always win in the end and punish the unbelievers - with a video for the song filmed at the 9/11 memorial.

Soon DeSantis will turn his attentions to other issues of concern for Floridians. Like non-whites and Muslims He introduced a bill as a crongressman bill, titled the Terrorist Refugee Infiltration Prevention Act of 2015. Banning the same nations that trump did.  He also has links to a number of figures and groups that have a history of vilifying Muslims, including ACT for America, which has been designated an anti-Muslim hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

"ACT for America is listed as an anti-Muslim hate group because it pushes wild anti-Muslim conspiracy theories, denigrates American Muslims and sows fear about Islam in the United States."

Republican presidential primary election leaders having racist links. No news here.

[ryoder 1,384]

And the knuckle-draggers get really cranky when someone points out the music video contains video shot elsewhere on the planet:

TikToker who debunked Jason Aldean's 'Try That in a Small Town' video receives racist, violent hate mail

In a TikTok video that's gotten at least 1.5 million views, Stark found that two of the clips in the video came from stock footage. One showed a woman flipping off police at at labor day event in Germany and another was a commercial stock clip of a molotov cocktail.

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NBC News also found stock clips of a protest in Montreal, Canada, and a protest in Kyiv, Ukraine.

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3 hours ago, ryoder said:

Stark found that two of the clips in the video came from stock footage.

So, what are you complaining about? What is a poor singer/songwriter to do on a small budget? It is not like he could stage a multi-million dollar production with hundreds of extras, make-up, costumes, explosions, etc. He needs to get his racist, violent hate out there somehow and make it entertaining to watch. Give him a break.

[billvon 2,400]

Two black men "tried that in a small town" when they "acted suspiciously" in their home in Mississippi six months ago.  Three sheriff’s deputies in Rankin County, Mississippi responded to a call that two black men who lived in a house near a white person were "acting suspiciously."  No details were given.  Their commanding officer told them "no bad mugshots" meaning no damage to their faces that could be caught on camera.  The three deputies dodged security cameras, kicked in a door, then arrested and tortured the two men for two hours while they were handcuffed.  They tased them 17 times and threatened to rape them with a foreign object.  One of the deputies then put his gun in the mouth of one of the men and fired.  The man miraculously survived.  The men then congregated outside and discussed their cover story.  They stripped the men and threw their soiled clothes into a woods nearby, then stole the hard drive from the home’s video system and threw it in a creek.  All while the man they had shot was bleeding out in his own living room.

Those deputies "took care of their own" mighty well that night.

[wolfriverjoe 1,340]

Wow. CHOP zone was dismantled over 2 years ago.

Slim being on top of current events as well as he does science.