“I love our country. I want to see it restored to what it once was before all this bulls—t started happening to us,” Aldean said.
, which features footage from various protests including Black Lives Matter and was filmed in front of the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, Tennessee., which nearly resulted in the lynching of the first Black Supreme Court justice, Thurgood Marshall.“What I am is a proud American. I’m proud to be from here. I love our country. I want to see it restored to what it once was before all this bulls—t started happening to us,” said Aldean, in part.
The courthouse once served as the backdrop for the Columbia Race Riots in the same city that saw the lynching of an 18-year-old. The song details acts of violence — sucker punching pedestrians, carjacking people, pulling a gun on business owners — labeling the so-called “tough” perpetrators as “fools” and daring them to “try that in a small town.”
He condemns them for stomping on the American flag and setting it ablaze, while warning that he is equipped with a firearm gifted from his grandfather.
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