FW: Folk dancing for white supremacists

[Sandra Layman <sandralayman...>]

The message below was posted to a list for people interested in Balkan folk
music and dance.

It is worth taking a look at article at the URL mentioned below:
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=54

Excerpts:
< Nothing in the advertising for the event had suggested that it was being
staged by people who believe that Jews and "race traitors" need killing. >
[snip]
< "Maybe we could have left, but what would they have done?" the musician
asked later. "We were scared. We had a signed contract to play. And you have
to understand, one of our band members is Jewish. We were worried." >


----- Original Message -----
From: <BUhlemann (at) aol(dot)com>
To: <ginbirch (at) mindspring(dot)com>; <eefc (at) eefc(dot)org>
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 10:36 PM
Subject: Re: FW: Folk dancing for white supremacists


> Dear Belle and the folks on the list.  I have included below a warning a
> friend of mine posted to the Scandinavian list (and sent me by Belle). I
was
> preparing a similar posting to this list, but this posting says it all.  I
was
> first alerted to this by someone who does mainly English country dancing
and had
> seen it in another city.  I recommend following the URL for more
information.
> This is a national organization, so it is happening essentially around all
of
> you...
> -John Uhlemann
>
>          I apologize for injecting some political into this list, but I
> thought that most of you would want to know this.
>
>          There is an article in Friday's (today's) St. Louis
> Post-Dispatch
> about an organization called the National Alliance, which is allegedly a
> white supremacy group with a potential for domestic terrorism.  This
> group
> produces periodic fundraising folk events in St. Louis, under the name
> "Eurofest".  A number of reputable folk dance and music groups have
> unknowingly performed for them, unwittingly helping them to raise money
> and
> make contacts.  Although the performers had little direct contact with
> the
> audience, there was apparently nothing obvious about the events that
> would
> alert performers that these were anything other than bona-fide cultural
> events.
>
>          I don't personally have any information about that particular
> group, but such events appear to be part of a disturbing national trend,
> as
> shown by this article from the Southern Poverty Law
> Center:  http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=54
> .  You might want to be careful whom you perform for.
>
> Sincerely,
> Rex Couture >>

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