‘This Is A Lynching Anthem!’ Black Lawmaker Rips Aldean Song As CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Points Out Video Filmed at Lynching Site

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins pointed out that Jason Aldean filmed the video for his controversial song “Try That In A Small Town” at the site of an infamous lynching and interviewed Black Tennessee lawmaker Justin Jones, who called the song a “lynching anthem!” Jones is one of the Tennessee Three disciplined by the state legislature for protesting gun violence. The other two were Rep. Justin Pearson — who is Black — and Rep. Gloria Johnson, a 60-year-old white woman who participated in the protest. But only the two Black men were...