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Columbus A.R.A Benefit show

Review of the Anti-Racist Action benefit show held at Bernie's in Columbus Ohio, August 20th.

No need to skim this post; I’m skipping straight to the Nazi part.

It was during the long lull in Saturday night’s Anti-Racist Action benefit, while we sat at the patio table waiting for The Bloody Irish Boys set, that a couple of Nazis slunk out from whatever degenerate suburban hovel they typically cower in, and came to the backdoor at Bernie’s. I didn’t get a good look at them. On a decent night at Bernie’s, one sees his fair share of shady looking dudes, so I didn’t look twice at a couple of shaved heads coming to the back door. Maybe I thought They were on our side, but I should have known better. Nazi skins are usually easy to distinguish from regular skinheads because real skins have some idea how to dress themselves, whereas Nazi boneheads usually go around looking like total dweebs. I think these two were dressed in, like Tapout shirts and shorts, looking like the type of guys you’d see in your hometown, bumping ICP in the Giant Eagle parking lot at midnight. They approached the dude watching the backdoor and asked what was going on. The door guy told them it was a benefit for Anti-Racist Action, and gave a brief description of ARA’s confrontational, anti-fascist tactics. A dark cloud of shame and resentment hung in the air as the one bonehead grumbled to the other, “See, I told you so,” and the two skulked back to their cousin’s basement and their books on Norse mythology...

Read more at: http://webelonghere.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/anti-racist-action-benefit-...