“People know how you feel, do you need to add fuel to the fire?” She continued, “Berto, I was scared to go to your birthday bash, worried that some whack-o was going to bomb the place or do something crazy to you, or me, or someone else.” I let her know I had begun dabbling with one a little before she woke up. She looked at me and said “ I hope you’re not planning on writing a General Journal about this…? I don’t want to have my life threatened again, I don’t want to have out kids lives threatened again… this kind of stuff scares me”. We discussed how people could feel that way, read our president’s pathetic “many sides” response to a domestic terrorist attack by white supremist’s, watched the horrifying videos of a white supremacist’s car barreling though counter-protesters killing one woman and injuring 34, and looked at the barreling car photo in the NY Times showing a pair of shoes on the ground (where a person used to be) while men hung upside-down in the air. I’m going to tell you the conversation my wife and I had Sunday morning.Īs she drank tea (me Peet’s coffee) I told her about the white supremacist rally(s) held in Charlottesville, Virginia on Friday and Saturday, she had only heard bits… I’ve said probably all I’ll ever need to say on the subject a year and half ago. THE GENERAL JOURNALS: DIARY OF A FRONTMAN… AND OTHER RAMBLINGS The main gist of his post is talking about a friend of his, Onno Cro-Mag, who was formerly a skinhead racist, but had changed his views. He also brought up an infamous picture 1995 picture of him and Kerry King standing alongside Gary Holt and Jeff Hanneman, who are both seig heiling. In a recent “The General’s Journal” post, Flynn stated that in the wake of his condemnation of Anselmo, he and his family received death threats. One of the first people to call him out on it was Machine Head’s Robb Flynn, via tha “racism in metal” YouTube video. However, last year, metal had it’s own race reckoning after a drunk Phil Anselmo seig heiled and yelled “ white power” at the Dimebash. White supremacist Dylan Roof walked into an African American church in 2015 and killed nine churchgoers in Charlotte, and in the wake of that, there was a movement to have the Confederate Flag taken down, which parallels the current wave of activists to take down statues of confederacy leaders like Robert E. However, it’s not just Charlottesville that proved this.
As this past weekend’s events proved, there’s still quite a bit of racism in America.
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