Young Singers Spread Racist Hate (Prussian Blue)

Started by Myxo, October 23, 2005, 12:42:32 PM

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matt35mm

Quote from: polkabluesOn a side note, those t-shirts are fucking awesome.  I would get one if I didn't think that some people wouldn't take it as ironic.
I thought so too, but I was too scared to say anything...  :oops:

hedwig

Quote from: RaviMyxo, what's the link for that article?

Right here. And here's the full story:

Young Singers Spread Racist Hate
Duo Considered the Olsen Twins of the White Nationalist Movement

Oct. 20, 2005 — - Thirteen-year-old twins Lamb and Lynx Gaede have one album out, another on the way, a music video, and lots of fans.

They may remind you another famous pair of singers, the Olsen Twins, and the girls say they like that. But unlike the Olsens, who built a media empire on their fun-loving, squeaky-clean image, Lamb and Lynx are cultivating a much darker personna. They are white nationalists and use their talents to preach a message of hate.

Known as "Prussian Blue" -- a nod to their German heritage and bright blue eyes -- the girls from Bakersfield, Calif., have been performing songs about white nationalism before all-white crowds since they were nine.

"We're proud of being white, we want to keep being white," said Lynx. "We want our people to stay white ... we don't want to just be, you know, a big muddle. We just want to preserve our race."

Lynx and Lamb have been nurtured on racist beliefs since birth by their mother April. "They need to have the background to understand why certain things are happening," said April, a stay-at-home mom who no longer lives with the twins' father. "I'm going to give them, give them my opinion just like any, any parent would."

April home-schools the girls, teaching them her own unique perspective on everything from current to historical events. In addition, April's father surrounds the family with symbols of his beliefs -- specifically the Nazi swastika. It appears on his belt buckle, on the side of his pick-up truck and he's even registered it as his cattle brand with the Bureau of Livestock Identification.

"Because it's provocative," explains April of the cattle brand, "to him he thinks it's important as a symbol of freedom of speech that he can use it as his cattle brand."


Teaching Hate
Songs like "Sacrifice" -- a tribute to Nazi Rudolf Hess, Hitler's deputy Fuhrer -- clearly show the effect of the girls' upbringing. The lyrics praise Hess as a "man of peace who wouldn't give up."

"It really breaks my heart to see those two girls spewing out that kind of garbage," said Ted Shaw, civil rights advocate and president of the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund -- though Shaw points out that the girls aren't espousing their own opinions but ones they're being taught.

On that point, April Gaede and Ted Shaw apparently agree.

"Well, all children pretty much espouse their parents' attitudes," she said. "We're white nationalists and of course that's a part of our life and I'm going to share that part of my life with my children."

Since they began singing, the girls have become such a force in the white nationalist movement, that David Duke -- the former presidential candidate, one-time Ku-Klux-Klan grand wizard and outspoken white supremacist -- uses the twins to draw a crowd.

Prussian Blue supporter Erich Gliebe, operator of one of the nation's most notorious hate music labels, Resistance Records, hopes younger performers like Lynx and Lamb will help expand the base of the White Nationalist cause.

"Eleven and 12 years old," he said, "I think that's the perfect age to start grooming kids and instill in them a strong racial identity."

Gliebe, who targets young, mainstream white rockers at music festivals like this past summer's "Ozzfest," says he uses music to get his message out.

But with names like Blue-Eyed Devils and Angry Aryans, these tunes are far more extreme than the ones sung by Lamb and Lynx.

"We give them a CD, we give them something as simple as a stick, they can go to our Web site and see other music and download some of our music," said Gliebe. "To me, that's the best propaganda tool for our youth."


A Taste for Hate
Gliebe says he hopes that as younger racist listeners mature, so will their tastes for harder, angrier music like that of Shawn Sugg of Max Resist.

One of Sugg's songs is a fantasy piece about a possible future racial war that goes: "Let the cities burn, let the streets run red, if you ain't white you'll be dead."

"I'd like to compare it to gangsta rap," explained Sugg, "where they glorify, you know, shooting n****** and pimping whores."

Sugg shrugs off criticism that music like his should not be handed out to schoolyard children, arguing that "it's just music, it's not like you're handing out AK-47s."

Perhaps not, but Shaw says it's the ideas in the music that are dangerous.

"When you talk about people being dead if they're not white," said Shaw, "I don't think there is much question that that is hateful."


A Place to Call Home
Despite the success of Prussian Blue and bands like Max Resist within the White Nationalism movement, most Americans don't accept their racist message.

Like many children across the country, Lamb and Lynx decided to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina -- the white ones.

The girls' donations were handed out by a White Nationalist organization who also left a pamphlet promoting their group and beliefs -- some of the intended recipients were more than a little displeased.

After a day of trying, the supplies ended up with few takers, dumped at a local shop that sells Confederate memorabilia.

Last month, the girls were scheduled to perform at the local county fair in their hometown. But when some people in the community protested, Prussian Blue was removed from the line-up.

But even before that, April had decided that Bakersfield was not "white" enough, so she sold her home, and hopes that she and the girls can find an all-white community in the Pacific Northwest.

matt35mm

God, the other band named Prussian Blue must be feeling bad.  Or enjoying the free publicity.

THIS Prussian Blue sounds like it's basically just Smoosh with some racist lyrics.  Although I kinda like Smoosh.

Their website is http://www.prussianblue.net, by the way.  You can see some of their lyrics there, but you can't hear any samples.

polkablues

Quote from: HedwigBut even before that, April had decided that Bakersfield was not "white" enough, so she sold her home, and hopes that she and the girls can find an all-white community in the Pacific Northwest.

Oh, shit... I'm gonna end up being neighbors to these lunatics.  Wait... no... I don't live in a freaky "all-white community".  Sigh of relief.

Note to white supremacists everywhere: WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU SO AFRAID OF?!?!??!!?

Quote from: matt35mmTHIS Prussian Blue is basically just Smoosh with some racist lyrics.

Smoosh is awesome.  I saw them play a free show with the Presidents of the United States of America a few months back.  Those little girls kick ass.
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matt35mm

Quote from: polkabluesSmoosh is awesome.  Those little girls kick ass.
Agreed.

Makes me wonder if THESE girls got skillz.  They're probably not as good as Smoosh.

JG


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You guys are talking a lot of shit.  Let's face brass tacks, here...

Would you tap that?  

I mean come on!  Fucking twins! That's dynamite!

Sign me up!  I will support these girls before they go lesbian on each other so I could be somehow underground once they do.
"As a matter of fact I only work with the feeling of something magical, something seemingly significant. And to keep it magical I don't want to know the story involved, I just want the hypnotic effect of it somehow seeming significant without knowing why." - Len Lye

Reinhold

i'd seduce them and then turn off the lights... then i'd have a minority actually screw them.

and hopefully get them pregnant.
Quote from: Pas Rap on April 23, 2010, 07:29:06 AM
Obviously what you are doing right now is called (in my upcoming book of psychology at least) validation. I think it's a normal thing to do. People will reply, say anything, and then you're gonna do what you were subconsciently thinking of doing all along.

hedwig

If anyone else plans to answer Walrus's question, please do so here.

Jeremy Blackman

One day with Howard Zinn would fix 'em up real good.

pete

Quote from: Reinhold Messneri'd seduce them and then turn off the lights... then i'd have a minority actually screw them.

and hopefully get them pregnant.

aww man, what poetic justice would it be, this white dude sends in the minorities to do it with them twin girls.  everyone wins!  thank you, white dude!

love,
minority
"Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot."
- Buster Keaton

pete

"Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot."
- Buster Keaton

matt35mm


Weird. Oh

See, this is the ultimate lesson to parents not to name your kids weird names. I mean, your either gonna be a bazooka carrying meathead or a white supremacist if you are named Lynx and Lamb.
The more arguments you win, the fewer friends you will have.

Pubrick

Quote from: Jeremy BlackmanOne day with Howard Zinn would fix 'em up real good.
yeah, the filthy old soomka!
under the paving stones.