A new Jason Aldean music video has drawn widespread controversy in part for featuring a Tennessee courthouse that is known as the site of a lynching that happened a century ago.
Henry Choate, 18, was accused of assaulting a white 16-year-old girl. He was jailed, but a mob of hundreds of white people kidnapped him from his cell. He was tied to the back of a car and dragged across town, and eventually hanged in front of the Maury County Courthouse.
On Tuesday, Aldean tweeted that he was wrongly “accused of releasing a pro-lynching song.” He then defended the music video, saying that"there is not a single lyric in the song that references race or points to it- and there isn’t a single video clip that isn’t real news footage -and while I can try and respect others to have their own interpretation of a song with music- this one goes too far.
“We’ve never commemorated or told those stories,” Bland said. “A lot of those histories get lost in the sweep of time.”
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