this is a lynching anthem. it is an anthem that reminds me of stories like travon martin, people killed by white vigilantes. this is not about small towns. where was jason aldean when the murray county people were fighting for their clean water? where was he when hospital were closing? where was he when communities were suffering from starvation wages? nowhere to be found. he comes to sing a song that harkens back to the vision, the fear of outsiders that led my grandparents to leave these small towns, fleeing jim crow terrorism. if we normalize this rhetoric, they we normalize the racist actions. we cannot allow this. this song is about this proliferation of gun in our communities, violence, taking things into our own hands when we feel threaten bid people when