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Next time you listen to Eric Clapton
Not something I need to worry about then...
Edit: here's an article about the thing from a couple of years ago
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.insidehook.com/article/music/eric-clapton-racism/amp
I know it's a bit of a derail but I love the fact that the journalist not only stomps on Clapton for being a racist maniac in 1976 and presumably onwards, but also for being shit at his day job.
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fully agree he has never been forgiven by the black community.Especially as he completely culturally appropriated black music.
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Next time you listen to Eric Clapton remember this little speech before a concert in the midlands "Do we have any foreigners in the audience tonight? If so, please put up your hands … So where are you? Well wherever you all are, I think you should all just leave. Not just leave the hall, leave our country … I don’t want you here, in the room or in my country. Listen to me, man! I think we should send them all back. Stop Britain from becoming a black colony. Get the foreigners out. Get the wogs out. Get the coons out. Keep Britain white … The black wogs and coons and Arabs and f*cking Jamaicans don’t belong here, we don’t want them here. This is England, this is a white country, we don’t want any black wogs and coons living here. We need to make clear to them they are not welcome. England is for white people, man … This is Great Britain, a white country, what is happening to us, for f*ck’s sake? … Throw the wogs out! Keep Britain white!” Don't worry it was 1972, and this tirade was the start of rock against racism. Clapton claimed he was only half racist as he had black friends and dated black women. But it is ok, as he is ashamed for following Enoch Powell and it was the drink and drugs that brought out the racism.
TLDR Eric Clapton, the racist tory supporter, blames drink and drugs for being racist but isn't racist as he has black friends and slept with a black women.
EDIT: My comment probably has nothing to do with BLM. It is my issue with foreigners in the audience comment, because that is me..my parents were foreigners, born here but never english. When I learnt about Eric clapton I wish i never had purchased any of his output.
Even the piano bit in Layla isn't his...