“Try That In A Small Town” Should Have Been Called “Only White People Allowed”
<p>I’ve written before about how I was <a href="https://aninjusticemag.com/growing-up-in-a-sundown-town-425f5d1105c2" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">raised</a> in a <a href="https://justice.tougaloo.edu/sundown-towns/using-the-sundown-towns-database/state-map/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">sundown town</a> and how sundown towns still exist. There might not be signage outside modern sundown towns that read, <em>“Whites only within city limits after dark,”</em> but the townspeople still find ways to push anybody non-white, especially Black people, out of the town. Both my white mother and white stepdad were pretty well-known in my hometown, so I had some immunity (though I still experienced racist BS). However, I saw Black families run out of town within a year or two of moving there.</p>
<p>Country music singer Jason Aldean’s song, “Try That In A Small Town” reminded me so much of the town in which I was raised. The “tough white guy” attitude, the extreme fear of cities, the anti-Black Lives Matter sentiments, the love of guns...sounds like home.</p>
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