The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
. . ."So, I had to wait a few extra days until now to listen carefully to and view the music video of Jason Aldean’s “Try That In A Small Town.” Although the song first was released in May, the public tumult among the woke and the mass media (same thing) began only after the official video was released in July. I begin here by evaluating the song’s key lyrics, making up its first stanza, with strict scrutiny.
" 'Sucker punch somebody on a sidewalk.”
"According to NPR and the Columbia Journalism Review, this is a real thing. It is called the “knockout game.” Is it unique to Black people? Why assume so? What does it say about a person who sees the term, hears the song and condemnation of this despicable behavior, and immediately assumes that the resentment of the law-abiding lyricist is targeted at Black people, not at the animals of all colors, races, ethnicities, and religions who would do that? Where is the hint in the lyric that — wink, wink — the lyricist means Black people?
" 'Carjack an old lady at a red light.”
"Do non-Black people never carjack? Is carjacking the exclusive domain of Black people? Are White or Asian carjackers guilty of cultural appropriation? I did not know that. Where in the above lyric is there any hint at race? And, for that matter, why not assume that it is an innocent Black elderly woman being victimized by a racist, blue-skinned Albanian?
" 'Pull a gun on the owner of a liquor store.”
"I never was much of a “drinker” except for wine every Friday night at Shabbat dinner and Saturday at Shabbat lunch — and the first Shabbat of May, the Shabbat of the Kentucky Derby, when I would mix, serve to my Shabbat lunch guests, and drink mint juleps in honor of my amazing year in Louisville when I was honored to clerk for the Hon. Danny J. Boggs, who was chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit for six years. Such imbibing had to stop “cold turkey” after my lung transplant. Still, over the years, I have been at liquor stores. It is my impression that White people also patronize liquor stores. Also people of all other colors out there. Fortunately, I tended to patronize stores that were in the equivalent of “small towns” — i.e., Orthodox Jewish communities — where there is virtually no crime by the locals because, well, because. But what is in those lyrics that imply that Blacks, in particular, hold up liquor stores? Why assume so? And why not assume that a hard-working Black entrepreneur is the owner of the liquor store assaulted by the gun wielder? What does it say about the offended woke listener, not about the composers and singer, that such a lyric spells B-L-A-C-K?
“ 'Cuss out a cop, spit in his face.”. . .Rabbi Dov Fischer
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