Mary Sanchez: Try thinking instead, Jason Aldean
Let’s take American country music singer Jason Aldean at his word. He really doesn’t grasp that he didn’t have to sing about “Black people,” or “Democrat-run cities” or “Black Lives Matter protests” to gin up gun-toting rogue vigilantes. He was just talking to his people, the “good ‘ol boys,” as he says. The Georgia-born country star got himself into quite a pickle. He’s now at the center of ...
by Mary Sanchez, Tribune Content Agency
Jul 21, 2023
3 minutes
Let’s take American country music singer Jason Aldean at his word.
He really doesn’t grasp that he didn’t have to sing about “Black people,” or “Democrat-run cities” or “Black Lives Matter protests” to gin up gun-toting rogue vigilantes.
He was just talking to his people, the “good ‘ol boys,” as he says.
The Georgia-born country star got himself into quite a pickle.
He’s now at the center of heated arguments and vast misinterpretations of gun violence, police use of force on citizens and the protests it spawns, as well as
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