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Equal Opportunity For High Decibel Haters!
By James Fulford
Recently Bob Herbert of the New York Times has come out with a
critique of racist white music. (High Decibel Hate, NYT, August 20,
2001) Mr. Herbert has unearthed some genuine white racists who are
actually preaching racial doctrines, hatred for other races,
glorification of violence, and, instead of just denying the existence
of the Holocaust, actually saying it was a Good Thing.
Hes talking about Hammerfest 2000, which took place in October, 2000,
near Bremen, Georgia (pop. 4,500.) Nowhere in the story, which seems a
bit stale in August of 2001, does he mention the attendance at this
function:
The Anti-Defamation League puts it at wait for it! three hundred
(300).
The plain fact is that, numerically, the white racist population in
America is very small. When Morris Dees managed to have the Aryan
Nation "compound" confiscated, what he got was a twenty-acre farm.
I am going to pause briefly to condemn these racist rockers as being
"mad, bad, and dangerous to know." Personally, I don't like their
doctrines, I don't like their attitude, and I'm sure if I listened to
their music, I wouldn't like that either. OK?
But they don't represent white opinion in general. Nor are they much
of a danger to society. There have been crimes committed by people who
think that way in recent years, the most horrific being the death of
James Byrd in Texas. But if you put all the deaths and injuries
committed by these types the last ten years in a pile, it wouldn't
equal two weeks of the violence committed in the last year of the
Dinkins administration in New York. That year there were 2,000 murders
in the NY metropolitan area.
I wrote recently about the Lonnie Rae hate crime in Idaho. Idaho's
black population is only about 5000 according to the Census. But they
certainly outnumber members of the Aryan Nations there.
There's an Intelligence Project set up by the SPLC to find these guys.
Just the fact that you need an intelligence project to find them
suggests that they're fairly small.
BUT and its a big but - Herbert certainly knows about another kind of
music that preaches racist doctrines, glorifies inter-racial violence,
and whose artists are regularly involved in shootings.
It's called rap or hip-hop. It's a 1.7 billion dollar a year industry.
It glorifies race hatred of whites, Jews, and Koreans. It also
glorifies violence against women.
Rappers dont only glorify violence, they commit it. Rappers often have
a background in violent crime that they carry into the music industry
with them. So you have people who are multi-millionaires committing
crimes that are more typical of the hard-core unemployed. Rap music
critics have been beaten and threatened. Frank Alexander, Tupac
Shakurs bodyguard, wrote a book called Got Your Back : Protecting
Tupac in the World of Gangsta Rap, which talks about a lifestyle that
sounds like it came out of a Robert B. Parker novel.
New York Magazine published an article that asked After a series of
high-profile run-ins with hip-hop musicians, the NYPD is circulating
an internal list identifying their cars. Is it "rapper profiling"?
No, you idiots, its gangster profiling.
White racism may have inspired several murders and a number of
beatings, not to mention harassment campaigns. Rappers have started
whole riots. The Koreans were victims in the Rodney King riots of
1992; Jews were victims in the Crown Heights pogrom, Whites have been
victimized by multiple riots this year.
There are rap songs that support these events. Unlike the racist
rockers of Hammerfest, however, the hip-hoppers and rappers have
managed to get their songs on the record industry charts.
Have the Aryans done or inspired anything as bad as Crown Heights or
the Rodney King riots? Perhaps they would if they could. But the
answer is no. (McVeigh was actuated by non-racial motives.)
The reason for that is that racial violence is considered shameful in
the mainstream white community. So it should be, of course.
It's not nearly as shameful in the black community. When Jamaican
immigrant Colin Ferguson shot up the Long Island Railroad because of a
berserk hatred of whites, Khalid Muhammad of the Nation of Islam made
a speech in which he said that ``Colin Ferguson, who killed all those
white folks on the Long Island train, I love Colin Ferguson... God
spoke to Colin Ferguson and said, `Catch the train, Colin, catch the
train.
In that case, Fergusons hate was actually supposed to be a defense.
Black rage syndrome was supposed to have driven him insane. When the
riots erupted in Los Angeles, black members of Congress insisted on
calling them an "uprising" rather than a riot. They felt that the
white power structure deserved to be rioted against.
Compare the white racist musicians of Bremen, and their audience of
three hundred with the attendees at the recent hip-hop Source Awards
in Miami Beach.
Jeremy Sapienza has a story about the experience of being in Miami
Beach during that weekend. He says that although Miami Beach was
prepared for the worst, (the previous years ceremony had to be closed
by the police after fighting broke out in the audience), only three
people were stabbed during the festivities. Only! Tens of thousands of
hip-hop fans and artists were in Miami Beach celebrating a style of
music thats at least as bad as anything done by Hammerfest.
This badness has to be heard to be believed. One of the attendees at
the Source Awards was Luther Campbell, who was briefly jailed in
Florida in 1990 for obscenity. While he was freed on First Amendment
grounds theres no doubt the lyrics were obscene. (If you are over 18,
and have a strong stomach you can click here for samples. If youre
under 18 you probably listen to worse every day. Note: Im not kidding
about the strong stomach.)
Another group, NWA, has this to say about its work:
Efil4zaggin (Niggaz4life spelt backwards) which made US number 1,
also surpassed the outrage factor of its predecessor by addressing
gang rape and paedophilia, in addition to the established agenda of
oral sex, cop killing and prostitution. Musically, it contained
furious blasts of raggamuffin and 70s funk, but that was somehow
secondary.
Somehow secondary is probably the way that the musicians of Bremen
would have described their attitude to their actual music. But its
amazing that their hate got covered by Bob Herbert on the Op-Ed page
of the New York Times - almost a year later - when the Source Awards
were just last weekend.
I guess some things are just too big to see.
August 29, 2001
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