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   Wow.   
      
   I'd be offended, if you'd given me any reason to respect your opinion.   
      
   You sem to be big on gerneralizations.   
      
   I'm curious about the klansmen lynching to Bill Monroe tunes.  Do they use a   
   ghetto blaster, or bring banjos?  You are bringing up a point I've never   
   heard, never having been in the klan myself.   
      
   Tell me, AM, expert on the KKK, do they sing too?   
      
      
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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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   > "Oneness is not achieved through conformity or subordination, but   
   > through the full expression of everyone's unique piece of the puzzle."   
   >   --AM, the Synthesist   
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