re: Down's show at Civic canceled after Anselmo's racist remarks

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How long has this been going on? I love Pantera but haven't kept up with any "news" on them at all in many years. I always viewed them - and Anselmo by extension - as liberal, anti-racist type guys. Although now when I go back and look at the No Good (Attack the Radical) lyrics, maybe they weren't saying what I thought they were.

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I saw them in Jax on the Far Beyond Driven tour and he absolutely made some remarks I considered strange. For some reason he got off on a tangent about Pantera being "a WHITE band", emphasizing the word white. I don't recall anything about white power or anything necessarily anti-black or anti-jewish or whatever, but it was definitely delivered in a racial manner. I was just kind of confused about why he was stressing that they were a WHITE band.

And this was 21 years ago.