Jason Aldean's Chicago-area concert draws protesters who 'try it right in front of your concert'

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Protesters from the Revolution Club Chicago demonstrated outside of Jason Aldean's concert near Chicago on Saturday. The group was calling out what they say is the message of the country singer's controversial track, 'Try That in a Small Town.'

In what they say was an answer to a challenge from the singer’s“Try That in a Small Town, about 20 protesters associated with the Revolution Club Chicago demonstrated Saturday outside Aldean’s concert at Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre in Tinley Park, Ill., a suburb of Chicago. The organization identifies itself as “revolutionary communists.”

“Aldean’s ‘Try That in a Small Town’ isn’t just a racist lynching anthem, it’s a call to fascist civil war!” Leo Pargo, one of the group’s leaders, said in a statement from the Revolution Club Chicago. “Aldean has said people who burn the American flag should ‘Try That in a Small Town’ and ‘see how far you make it down the road.’ We accepted the challenge, Jason! We burned that rag right outside your concert...

 

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