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   "btw"  wrote in message   
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   >> > Lloyd,   
   >> > Bluegrass is not right-wing music.  It is music.  Many liberals enjoy   
   >> > listening to and performing traditional music.   
   >>   
   >> But in doing so, they celebrate, commemorate, and perpetuate the KKK   
   >> "kultur" from which it springs.   
   >>   
   >> AM   
   >   
   > Are you suggesting that I leave the board?   
      
   I would be the last to make such a suggestion.   
      
   > I am liberal.   
   >   
   > I am from the northeast United States.   
   >   
   > I enjoy Bluegrass music.  Old-time music is a tradition in my family going   
   > back at least a century, and much of that old-time music is now adopted by   
   > Bluegrass.   
   >   
   > I am not a bigot, as you suggest, by saying that I am celebrating a "KKK   
   > kultur".  Maybe you should meet me, before you make the implication.   
   >   
   > Or is it that you love making trouble, and have found yourself on the   
   > wrong board?   
      
   One of the most ironic things about the bluegrass resurgence is that it   
   seems to have been fueled largely by people from the Northeast, most of whom   
   would describe themselves as liberal, who may even feel that embracing the   
   music of a people and a culture they had until very recently reviled,   
   themselves, is an expression of that very liberalism.  When one crosses,   
   however, old-time, parochial, conventionalist, narrowmindedness with East   
   Coast Egomania, one produces something yet more obnoxious than either.  The   
   worst musical "rednecks" I've met in recent years have come from neither the   
   South nor the West, but the Middle Atlantic states.   
      
   With respect to the celebration of KKK kultur, if one finds nothing   
   inconsistent about idolizing musicians of generations past who may have   
   lynched the grandfather of the running back on the football team you root   
   for every week, I guess there's not a problem - - - for you.   
      
   AM   
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