song called somebody tell me why i work so hard for you

Remember what Trump supporters used to say: “Trump says what other people are thinking.” Now lots of people feel empowered to say out loud equally vile things about Black people, Jews, immigrants, the LGBTQ community, and anyone else they deem beneath them and unworthy of their rights.ĭuring a House debate last week, GOP Representative Eli Crane of Arizona used the phrase “colored people,” a moldy pejorative that one doesn’t just casually land on in conversation. (It was always racism and white supremacy.)Īnd it continued to be normalized well into Trump’s presidency when major media outlets twisted themselves into knots debating whether a president who spewed racism should be called racist, while those who called it out were chastised for making “everything about race.” It was normalized when many fell for the lie that Trump was tapping into “economic anxiety,” not racism and white supremacy. But modern white nationalism began when Donald Trump descended that escalator at Trump Tower in 2015 and vilified Mexican immigrants. It’s the corrosive thread that has always been part of America’s DNA. Of course, there’s nothing new about white nationalism. But this is how white nationalism has been normalized. On social media, Aldean said claims that his song is “pro-lynching” are “not only meritless, but dangerous.” But what’s dangerous is that in a nation where its greatest terrorist threat is white supremacist violence, Aldean would release a song and a video extolling extrajudicial violence with the site of an actual lynching as a backdrop. That’s a stunning line from a man who, in 2017, was on stage at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas when a gunman in a hotel overlooking the concert site massacred 60 people and injured more than 500.ĬMT, the country music channel, has now pulled the video from its rotation.

A screenshot of Jason Aldean’s video “Try That in a Small Town.” Renée GrahamĪldean also accuses some unnamed “they” of threatening to “round up” guns.

Song called somebody tell me why i work so hard for you