American Mama Teri Netterville: Rural Black Americans Defend 'Try That In A Small Town' And Jason Aldean

AGR’s American Mama Teri Netterville joined Stephen Parr and Louis R. Avallone Monday to discuss the controversy surrounding false characterizations that Jason Aldean’s pro-unity anthem “Try That In A Small Town” is racist. Netterville brought the most convincing voice of all to the forefront, the rural black Americans of the “black belt,” whose condemnation of the “trolls who are saying that this is racist,” should be the final word on the subject.

Stephen Parr: Let's get to the top, uh, to a question for our American mama. Dear Mama, did you see who's got the number one song on the country? Music charts? Well, let's ask our American Mama, mama.

Stephen Parr: And joining us now, our American moment, Terry Netterville, you know, last week we were talking about this, this kind of really, uh, took over, but, uh, this was, uh, try that in a small town, uh, the song with Jason Aldean. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, and people came out and said, oh man, this is racist. It's so racist. Oh, it's, it's just, it's what

Teri Netterville: People,

Stephen Parr: Um, well, CMT, the country music television, right? Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. So they banned Jason Aldean's song.

Teri Netterville: I don't get it. Steven <laugh>. I don't get it. How do they not learn from all the others? I mean, now they have had people who are boycotting Uhhuh. They had Blake Shelton back out of a $30 million project. They had, um, junior Hank Williams Jr. Yeah. Uh, step down off the board and say, I am with him. They, the number has, I mean, the song has skyrocketed.

Stephen Parr: It's number one song,

Teri Netterville: Number one, making millions of millions on Apple iTunes. Yes.

Stephen Parr: People listen to it, loving it, buying it, downloading it. Yes.

Teri Netterville: And what is interesting is I have been watching online, my sisters and I, we send each other these links all the time. Uhhuh <affirmative>. What is fascinating to me, and I love this so much more and more of the black community, Uhhuh, <affirmative> are coming forward and not only defending the song, right. But they are calling out these trolls who are saying that this is racist. And they're saying like, wait a minute, you are the racist. He's talking about crimes and violence. Right. In the city, you're saying that only black people commit those. Right. So how is that racist? I mean, they are coming out, I have watched probably no less than 40,

Stephen Parr: I saw one. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, and there's a black man standing on his back porch mm-hmm. <affirmative>. And the caption is me listening to Jason Aldean to hear his racist song or hear what's racist in his song. Right. And he's just playing the song and the guy's just kind of looking, looks up the sky

Teri Netterville: Yes. And listens so many of 'em like that he

Stephen Parr: Plays for, and I can't find it. Yeah. <laugh>,

Teri Netterville: Well, I don't know if you saw the Carter Brothers. It's this, I just, Uhhuh <affirmative> or Cartier, T I E R, tier Brothers. Anyway, there's four black brothers, and they were talking about it, and they were so offended that people were saying that this was racist. After they read the lyrics and they watched the, they said, what is the problem? Right. This, we live in a small town. We stand with him. Oh, yeah. Because this is what will happen. You come to our town, you commit violent crimes against people, we will take care of it.

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Stephen Parr: Uh, you know what, that's a really interesting point. Uh, there's demographically across the country, there's an area of the south, it's called the Black Belt. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. And it is, it's from northern Louisiana all the way over through Georgia, South Carolina. And, and it kind of dips down a little bit. It goes to Mississippi and Alabama. It, it's a rural area where there is a higher percentage of black people living in those areas, but they're small towns, most of them. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> now, it's a very poor area. It, it's, you know, a lot of poverty in this, uh, it obviously goes back to, you know, back slavery days when you had plantations, but the black belt doesn't have a lot of crime. It's the big cities that have the crime, the rural areas don't have near as much.

Teri Netterville: And on top of that, Steven, these are, the majority of these cities are run by Democrats. Yeah. Democratic leaders. That's right. That is, that is the abs. That's facts. That's, that's data. That's facts. Um, the other thing that I have to say, and it's not a comfortable thing to say, but there's only one thing less important than a white woman's opinion about this <laugh>, and that's a straight white man's opinion about this. Yeah. So it's going to take the black Americans in our country to stand up, because those are the only ones most of the time that the woke will listen to. Or if you're a transgender person, they'll listen to you. But you

Stephen Parr: Know what, when you have black Americans coming out and saying, I don't hear anything racist about it. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, then you've got the far left, many times white college graduates who go, okay, well you're an Uncle Tom.

Teri Netterville: Yeah. Or they'll call them white supremacists.

Stephen Parr: Yeah. They're called the Black Americans, white supremacists. How does

Teri Netterville: That work? Well, the beautiful thing is, we are waking up to this now. People are now seeing it for what it is, because a few years ago, back in 2020, 2021, we were still kind of nervous about what we were gonna say. We had to kind of wait, engage, and see who was being canceled. Now to have that community come out, and these are people from rural towns, these are people who stand up against tyrants. Right. And violence say, listen, let me tell you something. You come in my part of this world, in my redneck world, these are black people saying these things. We will mess you up because we're not gonna have you come and break the law and not have to have any consequences. Because what's happened is we have seen these people on the left, and a lot of 'em, b l m, they, and, and, and of course the media tries to say that they are peacefully protesting, mostly peaceful and, and

Stephen Parr: Mostly peaceful riots.

Teri Netterville: Oh my God. Buildings are burning down, <laugh> people are being killed. The, they're forcing these white women, these nurses coming outta the hospital to get on your knees and apologize for your whiteness. Yeah. We are seeing this now three years into it, we're like, uh, no more. All of us. And here's another thing, Steven, I have discovered that a lot of the, the people on Twitter that are doing, they're trolls. I mean, yeah. Elon Musk has come out and said, you know, he's able to look at the algorithms and the numbers, and he is like, half of these, half of these people aren't even real. These are bots. These are people who have like maybe a hundred, uh, I don't know, profiles. Right. And they're able to somehow, in their computer world, spread all this stuff. It's unbelievable the pushback that this is getting. And to see Jason Aldean skyrocket to the top. Yep. You heard him at the last concert when he got out there, and he is like, look, people are saying some things about me, but I've heard you. And what you want is for me to stand up for my country and for what's right. And that's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna sing this song and the crowd erupts.

Stephen Parr: If you'd like to ask our American mama question, go to our website, AmericanGroundRadio.com/mama and click on the ask them mama button. Terri Netterville, thank you so much.