----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Annette
Date: Oct 14, 2005 9:18 AM

in the music world and the rest of the world you have things you do not like, but as they say the show must go on-which you do not know about yet. you are the ones who brought it on as a racist thing. the dictionary does not mention racism in their definition of nigger-no i do not like the word much myself because how i was raised but if they can call themselves that name why cannot a band. if a band is called honky, whitey or any of the slang names for the white people would you not play. i am not racist and i love the opposite races but if you are going to start playing with borders you will not get too many shows. also what about the swear words is that okay???

----------------------Mike L.'s Reply-----------------------------

I was going to let someone else reply to this, But I just can't take it anymore!!

You ignorant person! Why would you write to us to tell us the definition of the word when you clearly have not looked it up.

This is CUT and PASTED DIRECTLY from the Merriam-webster web dictionary.

READ IT!!! Read it slowly. If you have to, read it again and again until you have completely understood what it means.

Here is the QUOTE:

1 usually offensive, see usage paragraph below : a black person
2 usually offensive, see usage paragraph below : a member of any dark-skinned race
3 : a member of a socially disadvantaged class of persons
usage Nigger in senses 1 and 2 can be found in the works of such writers of the past as Joseph Conrad, Mark Twain, and Charles Dickens, but it now ranks as perhaps the most offensive and inflammatory racial slur in English. Its use by and among blacks is not always intended or taken as offensive, but, except in sense 3, it is otherwise a word expressive of racial hatred and bigotry.

The definition clearly "mentions" racism in their definition.

Here is a link to the website. Go to it and type in the N word and see for yourself!!!

www.m-w.com

Not to mention. We didn't cancel the show. all we asked was to be taken off the bill. and that band be taken off the bill. HARDCORE MARKETING DECIDED TO CANCEL THE SHOW!!!

Why do you suppose they cancelled the show?? Because of the media attention?? Gosh, I thought media attention at a show is what every band in the world is looking for. Heck if we got media attention then we did them a favor.

The reason they cancelled the show is because they KNOW that booking a band with that name is WRONG!!

I wouldn't be very happy at all if a band called themselves the H word or the W word either. So don't assume you know.