Johnny Cash's children condemn Charlottesville far-right protester in Cash T-shirt
Source: The Guardian
Thursday 17 August 2017 17.30 BST
The family of Johnny Cash have said they were sickened by the association with a Charlottesville right wing protester photographed wearing a T-shirt with the musicians name emblazoned on it during this weekends violent marches in Virginia.
In an open letter posted to Facebook, Cashs daughter, musician Rosanne Cash, condemned the white supremacists who gathered in Charlottesville, resulting in clashes that saw three killed and dozens injured. The letter, which is signed by all five of Cashs children Rosanne, Cathy, Tara, Cindy and John Carter Cash denounces the self-proclaimed neo-Nazi, spewing hatred and bile featured in the Fox News footage.
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 the second world war, it reads. Several men in the extended Cash family were among those who served with honour.
The letter goes on to detail the musicians political standpoint, explaining how Cash was a man whose heart beat with the rhythm of love and social justice, and recalling how he received humanitarian awards from the Jewish National Fund, Bnai Brith and the United Nations, as well as championing the rights of Native Americans and protesting against gun violence and the war in Vietnam. It states that he was a voice for the poor, the struggling and the disenfranchised, and an advocate for the rights of prisoners.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/aug/17/johnny-cash-children-charlottesville-far-right-protester-t-shirt
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(23,603 posts)Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)And the message within. It was a revelation to me.
I never heard he was cool or an "outlaw" or anything. Someone told me that I should listen to his work, because it would touch me. So I did, and it did.
Whoever wore that shirt never listened to Johnny Cash.