After the appalling events that took place in Charlottesville, VA, many musicians have decided to come forward to speak out against racism. Among them are members of Machine Head, Prophets Of Rage, Green Day, etc. You can read their comments below:
Robb Flynn (Machine Head) shared the following:
Prophets Rage’s Tom Morello told Uproxx the following:
“We should be totally pissed off by what happened in Charlottesville and by what our president is saying. He is clearly on the record who he’s representing.”
Chuck D added:
“He knows damn well there’s a contingent out there that he inspired and made rise with the rhetoric he was spinning in his campaign.”
Morello then continued:
“Resistance to injustice happened before Donald Trump, it’ll happen during Donald Trump, and it’ll happen after Donald Trump. So can it get worse? Of course it can get worse.”
“The Nazis and the KKK have unhooded themselves, because they’ve taken off the hoods in the Oval Office, so they feel more comfortable taking off the hoods in the streets.”
Chuck D continued:
“It’s very important that culture and music speaks its loudest as being a voice, because we can’t rely on government. Things don’t fix itself, we gotta make it happen.”
Billie Joe Armstrong (Green Day) posted the following:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BXufbInDEgr/?hl=en&taken-by=billiejoearmstrong
Killswitch Engage’s Jesse Leach shared several posts with a couple available below:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BXwko-sA6mB/?hl=en&taken-by=jesse_d_leach
https://www.instagram.com/p/BX0w2dZAo1h/?hl=en&taken-by=jesse_d_leach
Alissa White-Gluz (Arch Enemy) also shared the following:
James Hetfield referenced equality during Metallica’s Edmonton, Alberta show as well:
“Metallica doesn’t give a shit, all right? We don’t give a shit about the differences, okay? We care about the similarities. So the fact that you’re here — we don’t care who you voted for, what you do or don’t eat, we don’t care what color your skin is, what you do for a job. We don’t care what you’ve done in the past. What we do care about is the fact that we’re all together here, celebrating life with music. So for me, you are Metallica family. All are welcome. Are you with us?”
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