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Johnny Cash's family tells white supremacists to get Johnny's name out of their mouth

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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...emacists-to-get-Johnny-s-name-out-their-mouth
Rosanne Cash is the eldest daughter of American legend Johnny Cash. After receiving some information that her late father’s memorabilia was showing up in images circulating around the Charlottesville KKK riot, she wanted to make things very clear—Johnny Cash had zero time for white supremacist bull****. Taking to her Facebook account,
Johnny Cash was a man whose heart beat with the rhythm of love and social justice. He received humanitarian awards from, among others, the Jewish National Fund, B’nai Brith, and the United Nations. He championed the rights of Native Americans, protested the war in Vietnam, was a voice for the poor, the struggling and the disenfranchised, and an advocate for the rights of prisoners. Along with our sister Rosanne, he was on the advisory board of an organization solely devoted to preventing gun violence among children. His pacifism and inclusive patriotism were two of his most defining characteristics. He would be horrified at even a casual use of his name or image for an idea or a cause founded in persecution and hatred. The white supremacists and neo-Nazis who marched in Charlottesville are poison in our society, and an insult to every American hero who wore a uniform to fight the Nazis in WWII. Several men in the extended Cash family were among those who served with honor.
Our dad told each of us, over and over throughout our lives, ‘Children, you can choose love or hate. I choose love.’
Being such a huge Cash fan, seeing that alone would make me want to kick some gonads.
 
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So now we are so bad that people liking the "wrong" art is justification for violence?

As liberal as Cash was, they're friggin' ignorant idiots using his image and name to further their putrid hate. If he was alive he'd be heart broken over such a vile act.
 
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As liberal as Cash was, they're friggin' ignorant idiots using his image and name to further their putrid hate. If he was alive he'd be heart broken over such a vile act.

The thing about selling products in America these days is that the seller has no right to decide who the buyers are, once Cash or his estate took the money for said memorabilia they had no control over what happened to it. Just as Cash never had control over who liked his work, or why, or even how his art was interpreted.

And he is dead, so your assertion is a hypothetical, and I say a guess. I am also not a fan of family claiming that long dead people would say or think certain things now, because the dead never lived in this reality, nobody can say for sure what they would have said or done had ithey lived during these times....any such claims are in fact a guess at best, a lie to drive the agenda family members who are speaking at worst.
 
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Unsourced Cash Quote:
It's good to know who hates you, and it's good to be hated by the right people. The Klan is despicable, filthy, dirty, unkind. It's a shame sometimes that we have all these freedoms, 'cause freedom allows them to exist. I'd love to see them all thrown in prison.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Johnny_Cash

That is not love, that is not justice, and that is not what I believe except for the first part which seems to agree with free and honest speech.

We should not beat people for thinking "Wrong".

The Dark Ages must be rejected.
 
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The thing about selling products in America these days is that the seller has no right to decide who the buyers are, once Cash or his estate took the money for said memorabilia they had no control over what happened to it. Just as Cash never had control over who liked his work, or why, or even how his art was interpreted.

And he is dead, so your assertion is a hypothetical, and I say a guess. I am also not a fan of family claiming that long dead people would say or think certain things now, because the dead never lived in this reality, nobody can say for sure what they would have said or done had ithey lived during these times....any such claims are in fact a guess at best, a lie to drive the agenda family members who are speaking at worst.
Cash grew in the south during Jim Crow. It's clear what his position has been regarding such matters and it's clear where he would stay in today that's not even up for debate.
 
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The thing about selling products in America these days is that the seller has no right to decide who the buyers are, once Cash or his estate took the money for said memorabilia they had no control over what happened to it. Just as Cash never had control over who liked his work, or why, or even how his art was interpreted.

And he is dead, so your assertion is a hypothetical, and I say a guess. I am also not a fan of family claiming that long dead people would say or think certain things now, because the dead never lived in this reality, nobody can say for sure what they would have said or done had ithey lived during these times....any such claims are in fact a guess at best, a lie to drive the agenda family members who are speaking at worst.

And now you are a lawyer? :lamo
 
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And now you are a lawyer? :lamo

I am a very well educated generalist , as I have said many many times.

Who has little use for the so-called experts who have so ****ed up.

I trust that I dont have to do this with you again.
 
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I am a very well educated generalist , as I have said many many times.

Who has little use for the so-called experts who have so ****ed up.

I trust that I dont have to do this with you again.

Oh I have seen enough of your "superior education" to discern plenty. The next time you school me will be the first.
 
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Yeah, Johnny. I can hear him singing the Donald Trump blues from his grave...
 
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The thing about selling products in America these days is that the seller has no right to decide who the buyers are, once Cash or his estate took the money for said memorabilia they had no control over what happened to it. Just as Cash never had control over who liked his work, or why, or even how his art was interpreted.

And he is dead, so your assertion is a hypothetical, and I say a guess. I am also not a fan of family claiming that long dead people would say or think certain things now, because the dead never lived in this reality, nobody can say for sure what they would have said or done had ithey lived during these times....any such claims are in fact a guess at best, a lie to drive the agenda family members who are speaking at worst.

We aren't talking about great great grandparents here. Most people know how their own parents viewed the world.
 
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So now we are so bad that people liking the "wrong" art is justification for violence?

What?
 
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We aren't talking about great great grandparents here. Most people know how their own parents viewed the world.

Sometimes, but 15 is a lot of years, and honesty is in short supply, so...you know....
 
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What does art and violence have to do with Johnny Cash's family objectingto his name being associated with Nazis? I don't have a clue what your post meant. Have you got one to offer me?
 
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What does art and violence have to do with Johnny Cash's family objectingto his name being associated with Nazis? I don't have a clue what your post meant. Have you got one to offer me?

Johnny aint here..Johnny cant speak, and Johnny never had any say in who liked him.

That his family pretends otherwise is a problem.
 
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Johnny aint here..Johnny cant speak, and Johnny never had any say in who liked him.

That his family pretends otherwise is a problem.

Do you know your father's opinion of Nazis? I know what mine thought of them.
 
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Do you know your father's opinion of Nazis? I know what mine thought of them.

Can I be trusted to tell the truth about what my father might have though if he were alive now if I were trying to sell brand Hawkeye10's Father 14 years after he died, and that was my main source of income is the question I have.
 
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Can I be trusted to tell the truth about what my father might have though if he were alive now if I were trying to sell brand Hawkeye10's Father 14 years after he died, and that was my main source of income is the question I have.

Damn. Is everyone crooked, corrupt and duplicitous in your world? Why don't you believe them when they say their father wouldn't want to be associated with Nazis? Almost nobody would, you know. Nazis are pretty scummy people and nobody has anything good to say about them. I believe them when they say Johnny Cash wouldn't want to be associated with Nazis.
 
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Damn. Is everyone crooked, corrupt and duplicitous in your world? Why don't you believe them when they say their father wouldn't want to be associated with Nazis? Almost nobody would, you know. Nazis are pretty scummy people and nobody has anything good to say about them. I believe them when they say Johnny Cash wouldn't want to be associated with Nazis.

As a free man you get to decide what you hear, but me being smarter than the average bear I dont hear people beyond the grave.
 
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As a free man you get to decide what you hear, but me being smarter than the average bear I dont hear people beyond the grave.

The average bear knows the opinion of family and close friends on things like Nazis. I don't need to hear voices to know what some deceased people thought and neither do you. You've backed yourself into the position of sounding just plain silly.
 
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Johnny aint here..Johnny cant speak, and Johnny never had any say in who liked him.

That his family pretends otherwise is a problem.

He's already spoken.

The Klan is despicable, filthy, dirty, unkind.

Nazi scum. He's right.
 
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The average bear knows the opinion of family and close friends on things like Nazis. I don't need to hear voices to know what some deceased people thought and neither do you. You've backed yourself into the position of sounding just plain silly.
Here, and in many previous instances with that kind of "contribution", rather than respond at all it's perhaps a better idea to sit back and have a glass of this:

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:mrgreen:
 
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