Thread by @michaelharriot

He might be telling the truth.

Let’s analyze the statement and the song:

A thread

First of all, here are the lyrics to Jason Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town”

The first question we must ask is “what, specifically, is the ‘that’ that Aldean is requesting we try?”

“Sucker punch[ing] somebody on a sidewalk” appears to reference the “Knockout Game,” a group activity where rabid negroes randomly clock white ppl upside the head

But here’s the thing about the “knockout game,”

It’s just something white people made up.

Let’s be clear: there are people who sucker punch people, which is wrong. But the notion that negroes enjoy committing random acts of violence against whites… npr.org/sections/codes…

Is actually an American tradition. In the 1980s, it was called “wilding.” During the civil rights era GOP Sen. & VP candidate William Miller coined a phrase to demonize ppl who believed civil rights protesters were nonviolent & not attacking brave police officers:
“Soft on crime”

The idea has justified lynchings for more than a century. Remember, the event that turned Ida B Wells into America’s biggest anti-lynching crusader started with the accusation that a Black kid sucker punched a white boy as they played marbles

To be fair, it’s possible Aldean wasn’t talking about Black people. You know who sucker punch more people than rabid negro thugs?

Cops

We talk about police killings but what about the people who survive?

Of those hospitalized by cops, only 1% are shot

policeepi.uic.edu/data-civilian-…

41% are punched or manhandled. Black males are 2x likely to be shot by cops but 5x to be punched

So either Jason Aldean was fueling a racist conspiracy theory about or he was telling the truth & he doesn’t want cops in his small town

But wait… There’s more

Who’s carjacking people?

This one’s easy. Most car thieves (61%)are white but most carjackers (56%) are Black. He doesn’t care about cars being stolen, Jason should actually be applauded for caring about black people. You know why?

White people don’t really get carjacked

Whew!

Again, Jason isn’t worrying about business owner getting money stolen, he’s only worried about crimes black people commit

The VAST MAJORITY (76%) of business losses due to crime is caused by embezzlement & forgery.

52% of embezzlers are WHITE WOMEN (shocked me too!)

But who are these people Jason claims to protect and love so much in the small rural town he’s protecting with his granddaddy’s gun?

White people

But what happens to these thugs in small towns?

Jason wouldn’t call the police on these criminals (remember, they be punching people).

Jason wouldn’t make a citizens arrest

He mentions his granddaddy’s guns & says he has “good ol boys ready to fight)

Sounds like a lynch mob

But some people would disagree. Now, for 250 years, Black people have been fighting for a lynching law. Those activists had 4 criteria that defined a lynching:

1. It had to be extrajudicial
2. It had to be done by 3 or more ppl
3. It had to public

But here’s the thing:

A lynching is not just a hanging. In fact, a lynching isn’t always a murder. Many people survived lynchings. But even when the attempt was unsuccessful the ACTION was still a lynching.

But since Congress finally passed a lynching law, let’s see the official definition

“If death or serious bodily injury…results from the offense”

Legally it is a lynching

Police be lynching
Mobs be lynching
Racist white people be lynching
America be lynching

But not Jason Aldean

Jason Aldean just made a lynching carol for racist white people in America