Sunny Hostin slammed Jason Aldean for his «Try That in a Small Town» video on ‘The View.’
The View got fiery this morning during a heated debate about Jason Aldean‘s controversial song, “Try That in a Small Town,” which has been accused of sending a “pro-lynching” message.
Aldean’s music video — which was filmed at the site of the 1927 lynching of a Black man and features clips of protests, some of which are pulled from 2020 BLM protests — was pulled from Country Music Television (CMT) on Monday (July 17), although the network did not offer an official explanation for removing the visual from their channel.
The View was split over Aldean’s video, with some offering him “the benefit of the doubt” and others sharply decrying his song and its video.
“I’m gonna give him the benefit of the doubt that his intention was not to stoke division, glorify violence or racism,” Alyssa Farah Griffin told the table. While she said some of her friends and family found connection to Aldean’s release, the song reminded her of the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, “who got shot for doing nothing wrong.”
She continued, “I think if people of good faith can see both sides, they can see there is an issue with this song because of what it means to a lot of communities, but there is an issue of violence, of looting, or rioting—” but Whoopi Goldberg cut in to ask, “Yes, but why are you linking it to Black people?”
And Griffin agreed, replying, “That’s the issue.
