Black Mamba
Superstar
Hopefully he gets another one and ends up vegetableinstant karma
Cac fukk
Country Artist Who Once Wore Blackface Releases Song Goading BLM; Shoots Video at Site Where white Lynch Mob Strung Up Black Man
Cac fukk
pawdalaw
Superstar
Justin Nitsuj
Superstar
I already said this, they wanna go back to those "old days", and they gonna fukk around and find out the hard way that these ain't them "old days". I'm not on that "we not our ancestors" bullshyt, but these pussies stay trying to kick a sleeping giant. And they gonna get a very rude awakening, simply because they don't know how to leave us the fukk alone. They don't respect boundaries. The more you explain to them, they won't get it til we go upside their fukking heads.
Low End Derrick
Veteran
The History of the Lynching Site Where Jason Aldean Filmed a Music Video
Henry Choate, an 18-year-old Black man, was hanged outside the Maury County Courthouse in Tennessee in 1927 after he was falsely accused of attacking a white girl.
The new video for the country singer Jason Aldean’s song “Try That in a Small Town” takes place outside a courthouse in Tennessee where, nearly a century ago, an 18-year-old Black man was attacked by a mob and lynched.
Mr. Aldean was criticized after releasing the video, which included violent news footage of looting and unrest during protests in American cities. Country Music Television pulled the video this week after accusations surfaced on social media that its lyrics and message were offensive.
“I think there is a lack of sensitivity using that courthouse as a prop,” said Cheryl L. Keyes, chair of the department of African American studies and a professor of ethnomusicology at U.C.L.A.
The teenager who was lynched, Henry Choate, had traveled from his home in Coffee County, Tenn., where he worked in road construction, to visit his grandfather in nearby Maury County on Nov. 11, 1927 — Armistice Day, as it was known at the time, or Veterans Day today.
While he was there, he was accused — falsely, historians now believe — of raping a 16-year-old white girl.
According to an account in “Lynching and Frame-Up in Tennessee,” a book by Robert Minor that was published in 1946, the girl’s family called the county sheriff, who responded by rounding up a pack of bloodhounds to track down the girl’s attacker.
Before the hounds arrived, however, a group of white people went to Mr. Choate’s grandfather’s house, “called out” Mr. Choate and took him to the girl, who did not identify him as her attacker, according to Mr. Minor’s book.
Once the hounds were brought in, they were “given the scent” on a street called Hicks Lane, where the attack was alleged to have taken place. But the scent did not lead the dogs to Mr. Choate’s grandfather’s house.
Instead, “the trail faded out in another direction,” Mr. Minor wrote, “and the girl again said she did not recognize Henry Choate as her assailant.”
One man, however, announced that he had seen Mr. Choate returning to his grandfather’s home from the direction of Hicks Lane. Mr. Choate’s arms were tied with ropes and he was led away. Eventually, he was turned over to the sheriff, who arrested him.
After Mr. Choate was brought to the jail, a cook there told him to pray because “the mob is coming to lynch you,” according to Mr. Minor’s book.
“I know they are,” Mr. Choate said.
According to Mr. Minor’s account, a mob of white men gathered outside the jail, demanding the keys. The sheriff’s wife, with whom the sheriff had left the keys, initially refused because she believed Mr. Choate was innocent, Mr. Minor wrote.
The mob attempted to enter the jail twice, and failed, according to a contemporaneous account of the episode in The Tennessean.
One member of the mob left and returned with a sledgehammer and began beating the jailhouse door with it, Mr. Minor wrote.
Terrified that the mob would dynamite the jailhouse, the sheriff’s wife relented, and the first deputy sheriff unlocked the door. Mr. Choate was beaten with a sledgehammer and dragged out of the jail.
The mob used a rope to tie him to the bumper of a car and dragged him to the Maury County courthouse in Columbia, Tenn., where they hanged him from a window, according to news reports.
There were about 250 men in the mob, according to research from the University of North Carolina.
Two pastors, two lawyers and James I. Finney, the editor of The Tennessean, had begged members of the mob to spare Mr. Choate’s life, but to no avail, the International News Service reported.
Others denounced the actions of the mob.
The executive committee of a body called the Tennessee Inter-Racial Commission later said in a statement that “all available information indicates that the sheriff of Maury County failed to meet his obligations as an officer,” The Tennessean reported a little over a week after the lynching.
The Maury County sheriff, who was identified in news accounts at the time as Luther Wiley, said in a statement in the days after the lynching that he was honoring a promise.
“I had an agreement with the mother, brothers and the little girl not to take the criminal away from our county, but to give him a speedy trial,” he said, according to a 1927 account in The Tennessean. “And I kept my promise steadfastly.”
He added that he was “overpowered by all classes of weapons,” referring to members of the mob who had armed themselves with crowbars, sledgehammers and dynamite.
Ultimately, a grand jury declined to indict anyone involved with the lynching, according to a wire article that was published in The Philadelphia Tribune in December 1927.
As the details of Mr. Choate’s death resurfaced this week, Mr. Aldean responded on Twitter to the criticism of his music video by denying that he had released “a pro-lynching song.”
“These references are not only meritless, but dangerous,” he wrote. “There is not a single lyric in the song that references race or points to it — and there isn’t a single video clip that isn’t real news footage — and while I can try and respect others to have their own interpretation of a song with music — this one goes too far.”
TackleBox Films, the company that produced the video, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The History of the Lynching Site Where Jason Aldean Filmed a Music Video
Henry Choate, an 18-year-old Black man, was hanged outside the Maury County Courthouse in Tennessee in 1927 after he was falsely accused of attacking a white girl.
Dynamite James
The Main attraction
media and everyone gave this jackass exactly what he wanted...
all the controversy gave him sales...
Pull Up the Roots
I have a good time when I go out of my mind..
Don't blame other people over the racists who made their own conscious decision to support this piece of shyt.media and everyone gave this jackass exactly what he wanted...
The hilarious and disingenuous part about the situation is that country music was letting the song flop before the video came out and the conservative’s latching onto the song didn’t know that it existed prior either.
One of those instances were people more attention to it by watching it just to go on social media and voice their opinion not realizing the ramifications of what they were doing.
One of those instances were people more attention to it by watching it just to go on social media and voice their opinion not realizing the ramifications of what they were doing.
of course they are greatly at fault too... everyone at fault... it's a perfect fukking storm..
This is why I don't get angry at ignorant unlearned people that the conservative Republican politicians.like Trump and DeSantis take advantage of. Those people are stupid and unwoke and know nothing about the true history of this country.
Fwiw, Nat Turner's rebellion happened in a small town. The Stono Rebellion happened in a small town. Those and other rebellions scared the shyt out of White people to the point that White people stopped reporting slave rebellions in the press, because they feared more rebellions. That is also why most people are unaware of the number of actual slave rebellions that happened in America and the reason that anti-literacy statutes were imposed on the slaves, because they believed that literacy lent itself to more rebellions. It ain't a damn thing scary about a small town. All that song illustrates is that a bunch of cowardly White dudes and corrupt law enforcement officials all ganged up on a Black man just like they did Emmitt Till and Chaney and Swerner.
Fwiw, Nat Turner's rebellion happened in a small town. The Stono Rebellion happened in a small town. Those and other rebellions scared the shyt out of White people to the point that White people stopped reporting slave rebellions in the press, because they feared more rebellions. That is also why most people are unaware of the number of actual slave rebellions that happened in America and the reason that anti-literacy statutes were imposed on the slaves, because they believed that literacy lent itself to more rebellions. It ain't a damn thing scary about a small town. All that song illustrates is that a bunch of cowardly White dudes and corrupt law enforcement officials all ganged up on a Black man just like they did Emmitt Till and Chaney and Swerner.
Pull Up the Roots
I have a good time when I go out of my mind..
They're the only ones at fault.of course they are greatly at fault too... everyone at fault... it's a perfect fukking storm..
DatBoiHawk
HAWK
Tell me why my c00ning cousin in alabammer sent this song to one of my other cousins trying to get her to listen 
If you ignore the song and don’t watch it or pay attention to it, it’s almost like it doesn’t exist, so technically you can make the song “secret behind closed doors racism” if you want it to feel more comfy.'I like my racism in the open!'
dont they know this shyt is written by focus groups/committees of songwriters and most of those guys dont even have southern accents and their guitars arent plugged in on stage? if you think autotune is mostly a rap thing, you'd be wrong... country singers use auto-tune for what it was invented for: fixing bad singing. its a really hackneyed and lazy form of music. i just dont understand the appeal at all. its basically caveman posturing "try that in my cave!" kinda shyt. you'd need to be a real mouth-breathing low frequency kind of moron to be into it