Posted on 10/01/2004 6:07:09 AM PDT by esryle
There's a warning for parents and schools across the country about a racist CD targeted at students.
The rock sampler CD is filled with songs from racist and anti-Semitic bands.
The Anti-Defamation League says the rock sampler CDs are a deceptive tool used to attract and recruit young people to the "white power" movement and the ideology of Neo-Nazi bands.
The ADL discovered the new campaign while monitoring "white power" Web sites, including those that specialize in marketing hate music.
The group said it was alarmed to learn that Panzerfaust Records, a Neo-Nazi music label out of Newport, Minn., is planning to target schools with CDs of songs filled with racist and anti-Semitic themes.
"White power music has been around for years, but this is a targeted recruitment campaign directed at our nation's youth," said Bruce DeBoskey, director of Mountain States Region's Anti-Defamation League.
The planned CD distribution effort has been dubbed "Operation Schoolyard USA" by its organizers, who promise to distribute 100,000 CDs at schools across the country in the coming weeks.
"According to their Web site, their motto is, 'We don't just entertain racist kids. We create them," DeBoskey said.
The target audience, according to Panzerfaust Records, is middle school and high school children ages 13 to 19.
The ADL wants to make sure parents are on the lookout for the CDs.
"Operation Schoolyard USA" promises on its Web site that the white power campaign would be "coming to a school near you."
"So the concern about this campaign is that it's very aggressive -- 100,000 CDs -- and it's deceptive. It's using music as a way to entice young people who won't know that it's different than any other kind of rock music. Then once they're listening to it, they'll be receiving a very hate-filled, racist, anti-Semitic, white-supremacist message," DeBoskey said.
A note above the CD artwork said its design is not overly racial and that, "This has been done so that it will be able to fly below the radar screen of teachers and other people."
"They feed on fear. They feed on hatred. And there are some segments of our young people that are susceptible to that message," DeBoskey said.
"Once again, the hate groups are finding ways to repackage their old-fashioned hatred and anti-Semitism into new, more deceptively attractive forms that can appeal to a younger audience," said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL's national director. "Instead of handing out leaflets on street corners, they are creating video games and CDs and Web sites whose aim is to attract children by at first concealing their real agenda and message."
The ADL, which tracks the activities of extremists and reports its findings to law enforcement and the public, has been alerting school districts across the country to the planned CD distribution effort.
The ADL has published on its Web site visuals and information on hate music and an "Educator Alert" to help school officials, parents and caregivers better identify the symbols and warning signs commonly associated with hate music.
But they look like such lovely people!
That is kind of funny
What do they do? Play rap albums by black artists that have the "n-word" yelled 40 times per song?
What's with the masks? All they need is a crying aid worker in blaze orange and they'd look just like...well, you know.
If you can't trust a ranting, raving, spittle-emitting, hate-filled bigoted dingbat looozer, who CAN you trust? :)
Yeah see? You have it figured out *lol*
2b,
I wonder if the ADL has a position on that?
As far as they're concerned, is it OK for black artists to call each other "n*****" incessantly, and glorify a short life of drugs, gangs, "bitches", and thuggery?
As for the name of the company... I wonder how many of these people actually learn German? I would think that getting command of definite articles across all cases, as well as adjective endings, would be too much for their limited brain capacity.
Technically, it's not really music. It's noise.
This set off my bullshit detector. This does not sound like a statement a real racist group would make. Don't they usually avoid actually calling themselves racists? It sounds more like something someone creating a fake racist site might do.
Can't we all get along?
Anti-semitic bands? Doesn't that describe about 80% of the music "artists" out there today?
I believe I've seen the term "racialist" used as a self-descriptor by some white supremacist groups.
"They feed on fear. They feed on hatred. And there are some segments of our young people that are susceptible to that message," DeBoskey said.
These susceptible younguns who have fear and hatred were socialized that way in the government schools.
Another reason to homeschool.
Maybe it's 'Pansiefest" records..
This really isn't all that appalling when one considers the state popular music has been in for years.
But the diversity police assured us that it wasn't a problem and that expressing concern about the direction that sort of thing was taking us was "censorship" or "bigotry."
Well, look where we are now. Nice and rosy, huh?
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