An artist has a right to their opinion, even if it is stupid and moronic (as in this case!) And club owners have the right to book whomever they want to their venue. Do you really want to limit those rights? Are you prepared to lose revenue dollars and tell Neumo's that you won't accept their adverting because of this?

The fact that it is being held at a club on Capitol Hill is irrelevant. There are all sorts of people on Capitol Hill these days. And all sorts of weird shit going on... which is part of what makes it so great. I'd hate to have anyone start telling club owners who they can and can not book. I'd miss out on some crazy shit if that starts happening!

The main argument in defense of allowing Buju Banton to perform at Nuemo's is not whether or not he's apologized, but rather it is that we live in America. Whether you like it or not (and it appears from your post that you do not) a person's freedoms guaranteed under the first amendment cannot be taken away simply because they have previously engaged in reprehensible, offensive, hate-filled speech.

The Stranger is right to inform the readers just how horrible this man's lyrics have been. One hopes that those readers have enough sense to steer clear of Nuemo's on Wednesday. However, to suggest that the show shouldn't be allowed or that Nuemo's should pay Buju not to perform is a restiction no less objectionable than the lyrics themselves.

Remember: I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Allowing this Homophobic asshole to perform without protest will send a message to all of the bigots that they have a green light to do whatever they want.

You all might remember people like Micah Painter who was gay bashed in this very neighborhood.

I'm all for free speech but you also have to look at the political context in which this hate speech is being spread.

Having this kind of performance in a state that just recently denied gays the right to marry and with politicians whipping up homophobia in order to get elected just allows homophobic bigots the confidence to do whatever they want.

We have to make a stand!

..and, nobody seems to really care when bands like ICP are booked here either..

"Having an artist that calls for shooting gays, pouring acid on them and then lighting them on fire, in the city's largest Gay neighborhood is a very dangerous."

Gay riot!?

I'm there.

Neumo’s has a right to book him and profit from his speech, no matter how disgusting and hateful.

What matters isn’t whether or not this show should be permitted to proceed, but how the gay community reacts. The gay community must make its speech heard through demonstration and action. This is an opportunity to draw attention to the inequity and hate that gays have to live with daily in most parts of the world. This is also an opportunity to take definitive action against a abstract evil.

Why would any gay person ever spend another cent at Neumo’s (unless they are completely self loathing)? Booking this hateful jack-ass at all demonstrates a clear lack of judgment, and a disdain for the gay community (which can not be taken back by pulling the show now). The gay community should be taking this opportunity to decry hatred in their midst through noisy demonstration at the event and a complete boycott of Neumo’s and any business that continues to support or profit from Neumo’s (this includes The Stranger).

Again, Buju Banton has a right to his speech, Neumo’s has a right to book him and profit from his speech, and the gay community (YOU) have the right to your own speech. With minimal effort, willpower and focus all the fagots on Capital Hill can certainly speak louder than Buju Banton, and with the combined weight of the business’s they support (including The Stranger) should certainly be able to make Neumo’s continuing viability as a business impractical. You have a simple choice. Call hate for what it is and shut down business’s that make the choice to support it, or turn a blind eye and wonder why things don’t get better. I would expect The Stranger to lead the charge by lending its voice to the side of right, and withholding aid to the side of wrong (stop taking Neumo’s advertising dollars and covering their events).

This is potentially the greatest thing to happen to the gay community in years unless we are too lazy and void of focus to take advantage of it. Or we just don’t give a fuck about what people say about us in our own neighborhoods and through our own businesses. Which would be just plain pathetic (and about par for the course).

Check out this "list" of supposedly homophobic lyrics and you'll see how phony
these claims of homophobia are.

http://www.phatfamily.org/dadislist.html

BULLSHIT! It's one thing to exercise your right not to watch a particular show or to read a particular book. It's quite another to have a violent, unrepentent homophobe invited into our community to perform. You can't just say, "Just don't go to the show" because it is here, in our community whether we want it or not.

That's an asshole thing to do, especially when the Gays are your bread and butter. Even if allegedly you have "homosexual friends and acquaintances." No, wait. ESPECIALLY if allegedly you have "homosexual friends and acquaintances."

Neumos = Dead to Gay Community. Don't go, don't spend your money. Fool me once . . .

"There is no end to the war between me and faggot"

maybe neumo's has fred phelps opening for buju?

http://www.miaminewtimes.com/Issues/2006-06-01/news/bitch.html

NO MORE GAY $s FOR NEUMO'S!!!

Is The Stranger still going to accept Neumo's advert $s?

No worries there.

Go rock your rainbow swastika at Neihbor's and spend your money there then.

Holy fuck! I know more than a few “sensitive” Jews that still don’t buy German cars because they’re still all “sensitive” over that whole Nazi slave labor thing. (Lets see, where did that start? Oh yeah, with a individual advocating the murder and incineration of jews in a Munich beer garden.)

But you’re right. Seattle fags will keep funding the cultural war against them as long as the enemy has a cool club, a good bar and puts a tune behind its hate speech that you can dance to.