by Noah
Earlier this week FOX "News" was chirping that the huge success of country singer Jason Aldean's pro-lynching song "Try That In A Small Town" is a "big win for America." Really? Well, I suppose if you're a total white supremacist broadcasting your non-stop 24 hour bigotries and conspiracy theories, then yeah, you would be basking in some sort of masterbatory afterglow if your ideal image of America was the good old days when good old boys hung African-Americans from trees for an evening's entertainment.
It was notable that FOX's frenzied glorification of Aldean's song, and of course its mutual glorification by white supremacists everywhere, reached a peak on Tuesday 7/27. FOX's choice of day was obviously no coincidence and their morning show FOX & Friends just couldn't help themselves. That same day, would have been small town Emmett Till's 82nd birthday and it was the same day President Biden proclaimed 3 sites associated with Emmett Till as national monuments. Emmett was mutilated and murdered at the age of 14 as a direct result of a 1950's version of the kind of hate that FOX, FOX employees, and FOX viewers embrace and perpetuate to this day. No doubt FOX hopes for more of the same, just like they egged on their crackpot viewers in the wake of their Dear Leader losing his reelection.
What happened to Emmett Till will never be mentioned to school kids in states controlled by republican legislatures and school boards of course, but Tuesday's proclamation really set the racist minds of FOX "News" off into an extra blithering frenzy. Obviously, the choice FOX "News" and their Nazi ilk was to distract as many of us as possible from Biden's proclamation and "Try That In A Small Town" offered them the perfect tool.
I have no doubts that absolute nutcases like Marjorie Traitor Greene and House Speaker Kremlin Kevin will now attempt to defund the National Park Service which is in charge of the protection and maintenance of all national monument sites. I mention protection because previous signs and plaques commemorating Emmett Till's brutal sadistic death have all been stolen, thrown into the Tallahatchie River, or totally destroyed by racist gunfire and other means. The newest sign is reportedly bulletproof and weighs 500 pounds. Right now, some future Mississippi candidate for governor or senate is probably building a bomb for it.
Garth Brooks, pictured above is obviously a kind of antidote to the sentiments expressed by Jason Aldean, Aldean's Nashville record company, and Aldean's fans. You can see in what Brooks has to say that Garth Brooks stands for things that the diseased conservative element in our society just can't stand and will fight against till their last breath, which can't come soon enough. Meanwhile, Aldean and his supporters will selectively bitch about "woke people" and African-Americans who protest brutality while cheering red-hatted nazi-lovers who invaded the Capitol Building and killed, stabbed, maimed, and bear sprayed those defending us from their violent coup attempt.
When Brooks wrote those words, I would have probably said his sentiment was "winning".
Not true since shortly after. And as of today, his side has lost. Bigly.
When 40 states stand up against the constant hate of the worst 10, and the law of the land says that you cannot oppress, suppress and act on your hate, then we might be free... for a while... until the hate starts winning again.
And the hate should never be restricted to only racism (including antisemitism). Hate of women, the old, the young, the poor, other religions and, especially today, of the nonbinary needs to be always included.
The "lesser evil" people have refused to stand up against any form of hate…