It is apparent to me that Jason Aldean wants you to know he would have killed Emmett Till. He certainly is not issuing any retractions. A country singer has to have his “bona fides.” Dog whistle? Hell no, he is telling you exactly who he is. No ambiguity. Dog whistles are for wimps.
Jason Aldean Song Triggered Renewed Attention On Racist Vigilante Justice And Small-Town Nationalism
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Everyone with the middle name “Wayne” should be deported. That would lower the level of crime and violence in the nation several percentage points.
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In my view, Aldean’s song expresses a deep sense of grievance among some white Americans and a suspicion that urban America is scornful and even hostile to the rural way of life.
And in my view, conservative “small town” white Americans (I live in a small town myself) are so scornful and more than hostile toward urban America that they make it absofuckinlutely impossible to not feel scornful and hostile in return. Maybe if they’d try not writing songs about shooting people?
Also, Jason Aldean looks like a potato wearing a potato chip.
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The Southern Baptist Convention was formed for their explicit support of slavery. The largest Protestant denomination in the country.
These are the people that drove the Catholics - their countrymen - out of Northern Europe in the name of the richest man in whatever land that was.
They hate Jews, Blacks, Muslims, Latinos, and the rest. But it was Catholics they hated first.
Imagine raising an army of self righteous malcontents a thousand years in the mud.
These are their direct blood relatives, and they can be whipped to violence by the rich as and when required.
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Remember these words from 2002? Same vein as Aldean, Hank Williams, Jr., etc.
The racism and white supremacy are palpable.
"“I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We’re proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn’t have had all these problems over all these years, either,” Lott said.
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Hank Williams, Jr.:
It’s a family tradition! Haw haw
If Aldean was a talented songwriter or didn’t use the writers from the Nashville hit factory and was actually an artist like a Jason Isbell, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash or Kris Kristofferson his Try that in a small town song would have painted a picture and told a story and about what occurred at that courthouse in 1927. Instead he wrote some screed about what goes through someone’s Fox News brain addled mind.
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Yeah, at least Elvis had the empathy and good sense to record ”In the Ghetto.” Willie and Johnny have tons of songs about the bungled and the botched - when Willie and Johnny sing songs about criminal behavior, it is usually instructive to avoid the bad behavior, rather than to encourage bad behavior. See ”Delia’s Gone.” “Cocaine Blues” is the exception - he was pandering to inmates at Folsom prison, earlier in his career.
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E Homicides are higher in urban areas, but overall gun deaths—most of which are deaths by suicide—are higher in rural areas, other NCHS data show. Rural deaths by suicide have increased by nearly 50 percent from 2000 to 2018, a separate analysis found.
Homicides are higher in urban areas, but overall gun deaths—most of which are deaths by suicide—are higher in rural areas, other NCHS data show. Rural deaths by suicide have increased by nearly 50 percent from 2000 to 2018, a separate analysis found.
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Written by Mac Davis who later became known for middlebrow pop hits in the 70’s, fun but hokey films as well as a popular variety show. For the young ones, variety shows were once quite popular and featured, yes variety of musical artists, commedians, puppets and bon vivants.
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Strom Thurmond’s greatest contribution to the human race was his help during the Y1K crisis.
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Time to turn off the subsidies to rural America. Without the wealth transfer from the cities they would be leaving like third world peasants. And don’t get me wrong, I grew up in a farm, although one right next to a city. (My father and our neighbor’s old avocado groves are now a gated community).Rural people have an idea that they are somehow superior and indispensable to city dwellers. They need to be shown their error.
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And don’t forget that Johnny Cash covered Trent Reznor’s “Hurt”. And gave us a whole new idea of that was about song about addiction, and turned into someone in old age looking back over their life.
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My dad was getting his ass kicked with chemotherapy in those days. He fought the good fight. He liked to listen to Johnny Cash. I’m glad that he had a chance to see Johnny sing that song in a music video.
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Urban American doesn’t scorn rural America, it just doesn’t think about it at all. Which is why we have so many “Ohio diner” stories after every election.
Apparently, the opposite is not true as cityfolk live rent-free in minds of every “small town” American.
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I suspect that some of the “suicides” are actually homicides that small town police don’t want to report or investigate.
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@mrf: His apologists say he’s just selling records:
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