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Support (Score:1)
I'm glad the club cancelled the bands. I'm sorry to hear there are racists on your Goth list. I hope that if you post your response, they will listen to the truth behind your words.
-DA [coder.com]
Re:Support (Score:2)
Thanks for pointing me to that link. I had seen it, but hadn't read it yet. It was good stuff.
Incidentally, I found out later that the club only cancelled one of the two bands. The band that played had members who were a bit more discreet about their racism. Douglas Pearce gave a disgusting interview where he made "banana eating" references and, while he beat around the bush quite a bit, came out and made his background clear with this quote:
Bravo! (Score:2)
There's one typo I spotted:
> If you believe that racism doesn't have to violent
(word "be" missing) but very well-written.
This may be my own prejudice speaking, but I tend to think of bigots as an unreasoning lot, which leads me to doubt that any of them would get anything from your prose, but I do have hope for you audience: the "see no evil" crowd.
One problem with silence is that it's infectious. If Alice (a white non-racist) hangs with a crowd of folks who avoid the whole d