From: AM@highwire.net
> "AM" wrote in message
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>> "btw" wrote in message
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>> > "AM" wrote in message
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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
"btw" wrote in message
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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 see that you are fluent in Appalachian.
> 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.
A little known fact is that the first bluegrass music was played by plucking
the ropes, cut to varying lengths, of the people they were lynching.
> Tell me, AM, expert on the KKK, do they sing too?
Oh, no. Their pigs do all the singing.
My theory as to why the Middle Atlantic region experienced this sudden
fascination with Appalachian music, a form until that point held in near
universal contempt, is that, as Afro-Americans began stealing all their
girlfriends over the past twenty years, Euro-American males of the Middle
Atlantic states, in their ever-increasing, impotent rage at this abject
humiliation, found growing common cause with KKK sentiments, leading
eventually to their adoption of Das Kultur, as a whole.
These developments parallel precisely those in the political realm during
the same time span, where Middle Atlantic Neo-Cons have forged an unholy
alliance and made common cause with a bunch of Texan yahoos trying to
take over the world.
AM
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