A former Black Lives Matter activist said The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg “doesn’t know what she’s talking about” when comparing Jason Aldean’s “Try That In A Small Town” song and music video with former BLM riots.
Xaviaer DuRousseau denounced any suggestion that there are similarities between former big city BLM riots and the message of Aldean’s song.
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“I don’t think that Whoopi even knows what she’s talking about because let’s be very clear about one thing, not a single city, community, or individual besides the looters, really, benefited from the BLM protests,” DuRousseau told Lawrence Jone Cross Country. “They destroyed so many communities and so many livelihoods, and yet we are supposed to just embrace them for that?”
The View criticized Aldean’s song on Thursday, disapproving of its message.
While co-host Joy Behar said she defends Aldean’s right to make his music video and spoke out against censoring him, she suggested he consider that “big cities are supporting the small towns.”
Goldberg said that big city riots are the same as small towns “taking care of each other.”
“He’s talking about people taking care of each other, and I find it interesting that never occurred to Jason or the writers that that’s what they were doing — they were taking care of the people in their town because they didn’t like what they saw,” Goldberg said. “Talk about people taking care of each other in small towns. We do the same thing in big towns.”
“I remember back in 2020, I was a BLM activist before I woke up from the lies, and one of the first things I noticed that just didn’t make sense to me were why were so many of these people that were breaking into these local stores and communities, why weren’t they white? And why were they not from there? And why were they destroying even black businesses?” DuRousseau said. “That was the first question I asked, and nobody wanted to have that conversation; they rather just turn a blind eye and allow these criminals to do what criminals do best — destroy.”
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Debate concerning Aldean’s song began when CMT, a television network dedicated to country music videos, removed “Try That In A Small Town” from its rotation last week. Several conservatives have come out in support of Aldean, including Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD), 2024 presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, and Donald Trump Jr.
Since, the song has jumped to the top of the iTunes Top 100 in the United States. Additionally, the song made it into the Top 10 on Amazon’s “Hot New Releases” list and No. 2 for YouTube’s trending music videos.
