Jim Westrich wrote:
> Nearly all Skynyrd T-shirts (including the current one for their
> enlightened 1999 tour with those sensitive men of ZZ Top) include a
> Confederate Flag. How does one misinterpret this bit of racist
> commodification? (It's ok to like all kinds of art but deluding oneself
> about the most of obvious of themes inherent in the "packaging" is surely
> not healthy).
Quibbles with Jim on this imply a comfortable assumption of an all-white audience. And long before I became a marxist I was intensely irritated by the indulgence in popular song, movies, etc. etc. etc. given to a bunch of fucking traitors and slave-drivers.
Carrol