Racism on the list

This newsgroup is about music and the various relevant issues that
relate to our music making as drummers and percussionists. Here we
communicate ideas, philosophies and opinions about the art of music,
and also about those areas which exist to frame the art (instruments,
employment issues, social issues within a social art, etc.)

Membership in this newsgroup does not carry a license to spread
irrelevant political views, racist or otherwise.

While music legitimately conveys all different kinds of messages, I
believe I speak for many of us in saying that music is big part of our
spirituality. For those of us who hold music at the highest level of
our existence, it is an incredible affront to read some of the recent
topics and postings on this list. To the narrow thinking contributors,
your hateful and uneducated views don't belong here or anywhere else
intelligent and artistic thinking people spend time.

I feel compelled to respond to this, perhaps because I feel the need
to defend my innate sense of decency when I am particularly offended.
And history shows many cases where people have perished just because
they kept their mouths shut when they should have protested.

So I'll take the risk that I'm dignifying your comments simply by
responding. This may be exactly the kind of attention you want. But I
won't lower myself by name calling. I'll only say to you that you have
the painful misfortune of having to live life as the persons you are.
No doubt, that will become even more difficult as our society moves on
into the future. But I wonder when people are finally going to leave
this stuff behind?

May I suggest you spend some time educating yourself as to the
realities of people and the bigger picture we know as life?

For the rest of us, there are just too many other important issues to
spend our time in this kind of psychic energy sink.

Rob
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