[78-L] KKK

[David Lennick]

There is a book chain I refuse to give any business to in Canada because its 
owner, Heather Reisman (someone of dubious business practices in other fields 
and I don't care if she sues me), refused to stock Mein Kampf. The chain is 
Chapters/Indigo. I'll spell those names out for you if you like.

dl

Michael Biel wrote:
> Bill Knowlton wrote:
>> BTW, according to the book on Gennett Records (senior moment),
> 
> Rick Kennedy's "Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy: Gennett Studios and the 
> Birth of Recorded Jazz"
> 
>>  the Gennett recording director was a Catholic and a valued member of team.
> 
> Ezra Wickemeyer
> 
>>  He caused great waves by quitting rather than presiding over a KKK recording session. Revenge is sweet!    BILL KNOWLTON
> 
> The book says he didn't quit permanently, however.   But your last 
> phrase is confusing.  Revenge to who?  Or what?  By who? The records 
> were made, and now do exist.  Is it the revenge that the records have 
> outlived the influence of the Klan?  The revenge that those that the 
> Klan hated are now more powerful than they were? 
> 
> I do agree that the past be collected and studied.  I have a copy of 
> Mein Kampf, and it is very illuminating to see how early he had his evil 
> plans in mind, and that he was fully behind the evil of his regime, not 
> that others were just out of control as some say in Hitler's defense.  I 
> collect Soviet records and memorabilia and while I might be a liberal, I 
> ain't no Commie.  I've got my little pieces of The Wall here on display 
> -- because we can't forget.
> 
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com 
> 
> 
> "In the 1956 film "Storm Center" Bette Davis played a small-town 
> librarian who is branded as a Communist by local politicians when she 
> refuses to withdraw a controversial book from the library's shelves. I 
> think the book was "The Communist Manifesto".
>  
> Her defence was that because the Library of Congress held a copy of 
> "Mein Kampf" didn't make them Nazis.
>  
> Julian Vein"
>  
> Bill Knowlton wrote:
> Bravo, Mr. Vain. I am so tired of the few self righteous and seemingly oh! so clever people on this list who have to find ANY reason to tar people as fascists, reactionaries or bigots.
> 
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