Who Shot the Sheriff

by Black Sham Rock (USA) Mon Apr 03, 2006 02:15

Totally agree this rock against racism stuff is a nonsense pose. Just listen to what The Specials and Sham 69 had to say about the six counties for god's sake. Whoever is promoting this event needs to wise up...

Ulster (sic) by Sham 69

"Ulster boy

You know it's gonna last a few more years
So when you throw them bricks
Don't you cry no tears

And when you see those tanks go past
You hide your bomb and you run from the blast

Ulster
There ain't no winners"

The More I See by The Specials

"the governing powers are confused
the armies becoming bemused
another bomb becomes defused
and the terrorists aren't amused
paisley is getting his shirt off
sinn fein are going insane
they strive to divide the countryside"

by D'other Tue Mar 28, 2006 00:09

Its lyrics Crass is spouting, funnily enough from Crass's "White Punks On Hope." See: http://www.plyrics.com/lyrics/crass/whitepunksonhope.html

by WTF Mon Mar 27, 2006 23:39

Sorry, but I think you need to elaborate a little there. White people protesting against racism won't change anything, 'cos they're too square? Are you saying Black people only on anti-racist marches. The rest of us should just stand around scratchin our arses?

alright that last rhyme was shite, but you get the idea

see ya, wouldn't wanna be ya

by crass Mon Mar 27, 2006 21:16

they wont change nothing with their fashionable talk, their RAR badges and their protest walk, thousands of white men standing in a park, protesting against racism's like a candle in the dark. Black man's got his problems and his way to deal with it, so dont fool yourself your helping with liberal shit.

by pat c Mon Mar 27, 2006 20:26

i'm not sure if you are addressing me. ive already made it clear that imho sham 69 had nothing to do with the NF. indeed sham 69 played at rock against racism gigs. however a lot of their following were skinheads. thats a fact. another fact is that not all skinheads are racist or rightwing.

by Lady Bracknell Mon Mar 27, 2006 19:29

what you appear to be saying is that the band themselves are responsible for who listens to their music. This would make Wagner, and indeed by extension Freidrich Nietzsche also, responsible for the Nazi's, which, I hope you'll agree, is a preposterous notion worthy only of contempt.

Although there is some merit in the notion of holding Daniel O'Donnell personably responsible for outrages commited by the Blue-Rinse-Brigade

by pat c Mon Mar 27, 2006 19:06

i dont want to split hairs but while the band was punk & oi, a lot of their partisans, especially in the london area, were skinheads. this was certainly the case back in the real old days.

by Noddy Mon Mar 27, 2006 17:44

They were a punk band.

by pat c Mon Mar 27, 2006 13:43

eeeek is indeed correct. Sham 69 were not a fash band. they were a skinhead band. different thing.

by eeekkkkkk Mon Mar 27, 2006 13:25

In fact they at great cost to themselves confronted fascist elements in their audience

"If the kids were united, they would never be divided"

by Gay Geori Mon Mar 27, 2006 13:00

Sham 69 were a National Front band.

by Mark P - Socialist Party (personal capacity) Mon Mar 27, 2006 12:43

Thanks for that wind up Red-1913. My coffee nearly came out of my nose I laughed so hard. Who says socialists have no sense of humour?

by Red - 1913 - SP Mon Mar 27, 2006 12:34

Using such a title in Belfast shows extreme bad taste on the part of the organisers. Are they not aware of the number of RUC members, in particulat part-time members of the RUC Reserve who were murdered in this area? Anyone with half a brain would not have used such an offensive title as "I Shot The Sherrif". Perhaps the organisers only expect or want members of one community to attend.