Stop deifying Morgan Wallen and excusing downtown Nashville’s excesses

Re: “Morgan Wallen's Nashville concert toggles grand spectacle, intimate moments at Nissan Stadium,” The Tennessean, May 3.

I have been waiting patiently for someone – anyone - to write openly about the brazen, entitled, immature, criminal behavior of Morgan Wallen when he could have killed a police officer recently.

Nothing - with the exception of an opinion column by David Plazas in The Tennessean a month ago.

Instead, we get the overblown deification of Wallen at his stadium concert.

Is this the best Nashville and its media can do? The story is nothing more than blowing more noise into the "it city" echo chamber that ignores criminal behavior in the interest of protecting, exaggerating, and crowing about the downtown circus.

It sickens me, and I know that tens of thousands of residents agree: "When do we go downtown? Never!"

But when will we hear from the public voices of people who have the ears of those of us who do nothing more than pay our taxes, cherish our threatened quality of life, and know that there is more to Nashville than "guitars, Cadillacs, and hillbilly music?"

Kevin Warner, Nashville 37212

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