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Is "Try Than In A Small Town" Really A Racist Video? · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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  Welcome our number two of the Morning Show with Preston Scott. I'm Preston.
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  That's Grant Allen Show, forty nine seventy seven. Thanks so much for waking
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  up and joining us this morning on the radio program. Here're the lyrics in
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  part sucker punch somebody on a sidewalk, carjack an old lady at a red
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  light, pull a gun on the owner of a liquor store. Yeah,
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  I think that's cool. We'll act like a fool if you like, huss
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  out of cop spitting his face, stomp on the flag, light it up.
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  Yeah, you think you're tough, We'll try that in a small town.
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  And from there it goes. It's been attacked and told it's a racist
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  violence, and you sing song, and I've offered a little bit of my
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  perspective. I'd love to hear from Emery McClendon. He's been with us before
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  from Project twenty one. Emery, welcome back to the show. How are
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  you, good morning. I'm doing fine. I'm doing fine, happy to
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  be here. The first time you saw the song, heard the song,
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  read the lyrics, perhaps, what were your thoughts? I cheered because it
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  caught my attention right away. And I listened very carefully to the words,
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  and I also watched the video well, and then I watched the second time
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  to see the video on how it would match the words, and I thought
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  to myself, I said, not, here is a song that's actually displaying
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  and trying to convince people that this is not the way you should act.
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  You should you know, the words were telling you, along with the video,
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  that you need to straighten up your act, that you need to act
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  in accordance with the standards of our cities, and especially our small cities.
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  That's where there's more tightness, there's more cohesiveness, and there's where people respect
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  their community, that respect their officials like the police officers, to court systems
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  and so forth, and their neighbors. And I thought that by illustrating what
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  happens outside of those small cities and then using a small city as an example,
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  what he was trying to do was to enrich the integrity of those who
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  were doing these things and acts of violence. The initial video contains six seconds
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  of footage from Fox five Atlanta showing the violent riots in the wake of the
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  George Floyd incident by BLM protesters, and as a result, it has been
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  called out as a modern day lynching song and so forth, as someone who
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  happens to be black. Don't these kinds of claims really diminish and denigrate true
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  acts of races them to take place. That's absolutely correct. And like I
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  said, they keep crying wolf, Wolf, Wolf, And the only reason
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  why they do that is when when like such at that video, when it
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  got played and everybody began to notice the images and then the words of the
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  song. These people who do these type of acts of violence in the Black
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  Lives Matters and Antifa and so forth, they look at this as, oh
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  boy, they're revealing us. We got to turn this thing around and get
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  people to see it as the opposite of what's actually being displayed. Those were
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  actual news footage video showing what happened in twenty twenty in and and and how
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  they went out and tore up things in the streets, looted, rioted.
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  There was the cop killings and so forth, And he pointed that stuff out,
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  and it makes when they turn around then and try to flip the script
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  and say that this is a racist thing, all they're doing is making a
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  fool out of themselves because end the videos, which is actual again news footing
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  footage. It shows just how they react to situations and overreact to situations,
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  calling it protesting, but actually it's not protesting, it's acts of violence and
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  committing crimes. Follow us on Twitter at WFLA FM. I am fair,
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  I am good, I'm a happy example Glenn Is on nine to noon I
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  Am Stronger every Day on WFLA Morning show with Preston Scott, Jason Aldeen went
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  to Twitter. He said, in reference to the calls that this was a
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  modern day lynching song. These references are not only merit lists, they're dangerous.
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  There's not a single lyric in the song that references race or points to
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  it. There isn't a single video clip that isn't real news footage. And
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  while I can try and respect others to have their own interpretation of a song
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  with music, this goes too far. Joining me Amory McClendon from Project twenty
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  one, Emory, let's go back to the title of the song. In
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  the overall message, he really does have an interesting point he's making. Try
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  that in a small town. There is a big difference in America in what
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  is happening in a lot of major cities versus small towns, and I would
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  point out that it's largely because the area is rife with crime and violence and
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  destruction, and weak DA's are almost entirely run and governed by Democrats. Boy,
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  you beat me to the punch. That's exactly what I was going to
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  bring up next. Because these larger cities have become tolerant, they have also
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  become complacent, and they've also become sort of like enablers of those who want
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  to go out and do acts of violence. You go in and you crash
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  and burn a jury store, and the police show up, and to kill
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  the police to stand down. Everybody runs out with all the jury showcase of
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  all the jury showcases and all the paraphernalia that goes with the jewey and they
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  walk scot free. That won't happen in a small town. First of all,
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  there's a couple of reasons. Number one, the kids in those small
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  towns have better values and morals being taught to them by their parents. I
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  mean, yeah, there's things that go on in these small towns, but
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  there may mostly petty crimes, you know, and things like that. You
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  know, they may go around and drive across the lawn of a courthouse and
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  tear it up with a four wheel drive. But they're not going to go
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  out and crash and burn a jewelry store. And they're not going to be
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  shooting at tops, you know, from the top of buildings or from behind
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  trees. So yeah, it says a lot about the values in these democratic
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  cities, and especially such as Chicago, Atlanta, out in Portland, Oregon
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  and other cities like that. What's the point though, of the complaining,
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  what's the point of the woke ideology? The point is that they can.
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  They want to deflect all of the blame back to the conservatives and to people
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  who I have good values. They want our values to look like they're upside
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  down and their values look like they're like they're correct. And then and mostly
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  they want to cover up the bad actions that they commit and stop people from
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  complaining about it or rebelling against it and using by using their race, creed,
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  color or whatever. That's the point I think, Emory, give me
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  your thoughts on this. I have long believed I'm a big fan of rap
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  music when it's done well and when it's done lyrically without profanities and some of
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  the nonsense that's in some of the lyrics. But there's a big part of
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  the rap culture and the music format that is full of profanities, degradating images,
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  and violent u memes and portrayals. Why isn't that called out? It's
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  not called out because the media and the entertainment industry, Hollywood and so forth,
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  and you know where the records are produced back this kind of stuff,
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  and they want to see this this kind of activity. And not only that,
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  but you have a I hate to use the term, but I guess
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  I will a thuggish type of groups of people who get into the rap type
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  music and so forth for that result and a degrading of women, degrading of
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  things that happened in the society, degrading our police officers and America itself.
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  So they do things in those videos and say things in those videos that are
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  very demeaning because that's the way that they feel. They do it all based
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  upon not knowing true what true Americanism really means and what it means to actually
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  be a true civic citizen. Tell me this in closing, and we're in
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  Thanks so much for your time. We talked before the top of the hour
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  about Fox News threatening a lawsuit against the producers of the video because of six
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  seconds of video footage from Fox Atlanta on the BLM riots. There couldn't couldn't
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  Fox have just said it's news, have at it. Why do you think
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  they chose to slam on this. I think they did so because it reveals
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  so much of the violence and so forth, and it points out a specific
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  group. And I also think there's some pressure. I mean, I can't
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  prove it, but I think there's some pressure being exerted by BLM and some
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  of the other groups. And I think that you know, they're being shut
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  down, they're being discredited, and they don't want that to happen, so
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  they're probably putting the pressure on Fox. Fox doesn't want to be known as
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  a discriminatory news outlet, so they're going to push back. And the easiest
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  person to push back on is Jason Aldeen CMT and those in the entertainment industry
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  on the conservative side. Emory, I always enjoy catching up with you.
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  Thanks for your insights and your thoughts on this. I appreciate it. I
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  appreciate being on Thank you God Lets thank you sir. Emory McClendon with us.
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  He was a tea party Patriot was acknowledged for his work during the tea
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  party rallies back in the day, and he's a free Quin contributor to Project
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  twenty one and our guest on The Morning Show with Preston Sky