Lynching and the Song, “Try That in a Small Town” By Chris Knight (Florida)
Jason Aldean’s song, Try That in a Small Town, which was an attack upon the anarchy of the antifa riots of 2020, would probably have just remained at number 35, before falling, on the Country record charts. But, the white liberals could not tolerate it, and had the song banned from play. That threw a tiger amongst the liberal pigeons, and now the song has shot to number 2 on Billboard’s Hot 100 list. And, for music, that is big time, better than Taylor Swift! Naturally the white liberals proclaimed that the song as racist, portraying Blacks committing crimes. But numerous Black commentators on YouTube pointed out that this was absurd, as most of the footage was of crazed white antifa.
The best the woke could come up with was that the footage showed the courthouse of Maury County, and back in the day of 1927 a Black was lynched there. Well, it is most unlikely that the musicians knew about that, and lynchings of Whites by Blacks also occurred. Showing the court house, even if intentional, does not endorse lynching, since the point can be made that the 1927 act was a great injustice, just like the 2020 antifa acts. Both were along the same lines of vigilante “justice.” And, if the court house was so offensive, it should have been pulled down long ago, like the White House should have been!
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/jason-aldeans-try-small-town-becomes-no-2-hit
“The video also uses the courthouse of Maury County, TN as a backdrop. The Post’s Scribner tells us that a black guy suspected of having raped a white girl was lynched there, from the courthouse balcony, back in 1927.
What a banquet of good ol' boy stereotypes for our Ruling Class to feed on! They've been clutching their pearls and shrieking from coast to coast. From the Washington Post article:
A channel devoted to country music videos has pulled the video out of rotation after accusations that it promotes racism and violence. But "Try That in a Small Town" has also leaped to the top of many streaming charts, and top Republicans are defending Aldean, who insists the song has nothing to do with race.
As if there is anything in today's U.S.A. that "has nothing to do with race"! But I guess Aldean is just saying what his recording-company handlers tell him to say.
Sucker punch somebody on a sidewalk; carjack an old lady at a red light; pull a gun on the owner of a liquor store—If I had the patience and skill with criminal-justice databases that Steve Sailer has, I would be able to give you a total number, aggregate of all those crimes, for a recent year in the U.S.A.
If I did that, what proportion of the perps would be black? Ninety percent? Ninety-five?
For goodness’ sake: We all know that, to a fair first approximation, all street crime in the U.S.A. is committed by blacks.
As for that lynching: Is a Country singer supposed to research the history of a building a hundred years back before he poses in front of it?
And as I've told you before, lynching was no respecter of races. Blacks lynched blacks, whites lynched whites. In Clarksville, sixty miles north of the infamous courthouse, a white man thought to have raped a black woman was lynched by a black mob in 1914. The coroner's jury decided it was a justifiable homicide and freed the black lynchers.
Truly, the past is another country. To appreciate that fact, you need some imagination—some ability to think about things in other than state-approved cookie-cutter stereotypes.
Our Ruling Class doesn’t rise to that standard.
This fuss over Jason Aldean and his song is in a long, long line of descent from one of the oldest social divides in human history: the one between town and country. Storytellers have been making fun of Country Bumpkins and City Slickers all the way back to the ancient Greek dramatists, at least.
That's enough time for some peculiar twists and turns to have developed. Consider for example today's U.S.A.
Our big cities now are dominated by Good People: blacks, progressive whites, petty criminals oppressed by poverty, and lunatics in need of community care.
There's a seasoning of Bad People: cops, of course, some wealthy non-progressives like Donald Trump, a petit-bourgeoisie of small storekeepers and franchisees.
They have no weight, though; it's Good People—blacks and Progressive whites—who call the shots.
The problem here is that not many of those Good People are smart—for sure not smart enough to think through the consequences of their policies.
For example: Petty criminals are Good People just struggling to put food on their families’ tables. It follows that punishing them for their petty crimes is wrong, wrong. Ergo, they're not getting punished.
And the cops who once deterred and arrested those Good People no longer want to do so because they fear ending up in the dock themselves—like Derek Chauvin.
Here's a story from CBS News last Fall: "Chicago Police Department struggles as burnt-out cops quit, with some heading to suburbs. [October 11, 202] Since 2019, the story tells us, 3,300 officers retired, resigned, were discharged, were killed in the line of duty, or were fired. From that date up to last October, around 1,600 officers have been hired—half the number of the departures.
It's the same in New York City, we get regular reports in the local news. Probably it's the same in all our big cities.
More crime, fewer cops. Add to that the closing, because of unrestrained shoplifting, of retail drug stores that city inhabitants depend on for their daily supplies.
Stupid policies, bad outcomes. Along with normal values, another thing being inverted here is those ancient tropes of stupid Country Bumpkin and sharp-witted City Slicker. At any rate, looking at our major urban centers today, you have to think that what we have in charge there are City Bumpkins.”
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/jason-aldean-outlaw-country/
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