membership" bases award decisions not on "sales or chart positions" but rather on "artistic or technical achievement" in order "to honor excellence in the recording arts." [105]
Some of the violently racist artistry awarded embraces the extremist
symbolism's and doctrines of Communism or Marxist-Leninism. It is inconceivable that violently racist artistry, by whites, embracing extremist symbolism's and doctrines of Fascism or Nazism would be awarded or even nominated. By not taking action against the voting members of the Academy, the executives of Navarro Corporation have shown not only that they tolerate lyrics that call for the murder of whites, but also that they find extreme leftism tolerable. One could ask the voting members or the executives if they find extreme leftism having merit. One could also ask them if they find extreme leftism less threatening than extreme rightism [105.1]
33rd Annual Grammy Awards (21 Feb 1991): Ice-T
[105.2]
34th Annual Grammy Awards (25 Feb 1992): LL Cool J
[105.3]
35th Annual Grammy Awards (24 Feb 1993): Arrested Development, Sir
Mix-a-Lot. [105.4]
36th Annual Grammy Awards (1 Mar 1994): Dr Dre, Digable Planets
[105.5]
37th Annual Grammy Awards (1 Mar 1995): Queen Latifah
[105.6]
38th Annual Grammy Awards (28 Feb 1996): Coolio, Method Man, Naughty
by Nature [105.7]
39th Annual Grammy Awards (26 Feb 1997): Rage Against the Machine,
Fugees, LL Cool J, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. [105.8]
41st Annual Grammy Awards (24 Feb 1999): Lauryn Hill.
Anti-Racist
organisations
and
Racist
Music
as
Racial-Conflict
Revolutionary Literature: [106]
In Racist Music80, Heidi Beirich, director of research and special projects for the
Southern Poverty Law Center documents a brief history of how violent ‘racist’ ‘White Power’ music accomplished “for the radical right what decades of racist theorizing didn't: It has given racist skinheads and other racial extremists around the world a common language, and it has worked far better than most propaganda to create more 80 Beirich Heidi (undated): Racist Music; Southern Poverty Law Center http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/ideology/racist-music/racist-music
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