A middle school football coach in Tennessee was fired recently for writing a song. Some parents complained, saying the song had "racial overtones":
Bryan Glover, an assistant coach at Grassland Middle School near Nashville, co-wrote the country music song, “When You’re Holding a Hammer, Everything Looks Like a Nail.”
It was co-written by a parent who has a child on the team. Glover, 26, said he emailed a copy of the song to friends, family members and player’s parents through his personal email account.
And that’s when all the trouble started for the self-described independent conservative.
“The coach called me and said parents were upset – that I was being politically incorrect and the song had racial overtones,” Glover told FOX News Radio. “An hour and a half later I was told I was being terminated.”
Here's the racially overtoned video:
Wow. Did you see the head on that hammer? It was BLACK!
I was born and raised in Tennessee. If the reactions of Tennesseans to this song and the assistant middle school coach who co-wrote the lyrics is an example of the mindset of Tennesseans now, they have regressed since I left The Volunteer State for a career in our military, and I'm glad I live in the backward redneck Yellowhammer State, Alabama.
Posted by: Don | September 05, 2010 at 12:10 PM
Great song
Posted by: ajasmer | September 07, 2010 at 09:12 PM
love this song
Posted by: Kally | October 23, 2011 at 06:42 AM