Tyler Childers Challenges His 'White Rural Listeners' to Empathize With Black Americans in Powerful Video

"We've all witnessed violent acts of police brutality happen around the nation that have gone unaddressed. In response, we've seen protests turn to riots, and riots culminate into acts of violence and destruction of property. From the outsider's perspective, it's hard to see where all this visceral anger is coming from," the country singer-songwriter said. "What I believe to be one of the biggest obstacles in pinpointing the cause of this is our inability to empathize with another individual or group's plight."

Childers then recited headlines that flipped the script and placed white individuals as the victims of unjust murder committed by authorities (with a reference to fellow Kentuckian Breonna Taylor's death). He later reverted back to the grim reality by listing the kinds of members Black families have repeatedly lost due to this type of violence.

"These are sons and daughters, brothers and sisters and cousins, mothers and fathers -- irreplaceable threads within their family fiber, torn from their loved ones too soon with no justice. And they're demanding justice, same as I expect we would," he said.

The 29-year-old artist also noted in the description of his YouTube video that 100% of the album's net proceed will go toward the Hickman Holler Appalachian Relief Fund, which supports underserved communities in the Appalachian region.

Watch Childers' video message about racial inequality, and stream Long Violent History, below.