Country music star Jason Aldean is facing immense backlash over his music video “Try That in a Small Town,” which critics accuse of containing coded threats against Black people.
The official YouTube video for the song was quietly edited to remove a news clip of violence that took place during Black Lives Matter demonstrations in Atlanta. A portion of that clip was originally projected onto the exterior wall of a Tennessee county courthouse where a Black teen was lynched in the 1920s, which Aldean used as a backdrop as he sang about crimes that would not be tolerated in a small town:
