Country singer Jason Aldean has deleted six seconds of scenes from the video for his redneck vigilante tribute, “Try That in a Small Town,” the Washington Post reports, with the video no longer having scenes of BLM protests included. Aldean faces continued criticism for the song, which challenges protesters, presumably those from the 2020 Black Lives Matter and subsequent movements, to exercise their First Amendment rights in those redneck small towns, where Aldean suggests the good ol’ boys’ll kick the shit out of them, like redneck good ol’ boys are wont to do to people who hold different views from them because they can’t rationally explain their views. And it’s all done in the name of the gosh darn U.S. of A.
Aldean’s video has already been criticized for its location–a Tennessee court house infamous as the site of a Black teen’s lynching in the 1920s–and the fact that the song glorifies the type of extrajudicial punishment and intimidation popular with the KKK and other hate groups in various small towns across the country.