![]() ![]() But, thereâs still people beating the drum to go bomb Iran, "Letâs bring democracy to Iran just like we did Iraq." No, wait a minute. Iâm far more frightened of Netanyahu and Israel being a threat to world peace than of anyone running Iran at the moment. Some of the examples that I mention in the song are things like Iran and nuclear weapons. If we go into Iran, weâre going to lose much worse. Some of the examples that I mention in the song - some of our boneheaded foreign policies, like our involvement in Vietnam, clown prince dubbya trying to conquer Iraq so Cheneyâs friends can loot the place. But, some of these Euro and Yankee supremacist attitudes that we force on the world is responsible for a lot of needless trauma and misery, not to mention pollution. I donât think any race is inherently evil. Itâs like "more, more more!" and "for me to win, somebody else must lose!"īack to the title, if you check the title track of the album, itâs not saying that the white race or any other race is inherently evil. How much more money do you need? A lot of people, when they get to that point, itâs like a video game they canât stop playing, or itâs like a game of paintball of them versus everybody else. Whatâs the worst form of addiction, the most dangerous addiction in the world? Is it meth? Is it crack? No, itâs wealth addiction. The fact that these deficits and economic crashes are going on all over the world indicates itâs being coordinated by these people who have so much money they donât even know what to do with it all. To me, the whole album is kind of my feelings about this worldwide austerity scam where the banksters smell blood in the water, and keep claiming the country is broke and people that are broke should keep living like people in third world countries and be thankful for the opportunity. Usually, at some level, if peopleâs nerves are struck, they might start to think - jar loose some of the sediment in their corporate media-addled brain. ![]() Itâs a way of getting peopleâs attention and striking a raw nerve. Well, number one, itâs just like "Kill the poor," or calling a band the Dead Kennedys, or the Guantanamo School of Medicine - value in shock value. Are you saying that white people are inherently evil? Are you saying that many of our current problems come from people in charge, who tend to be white? Something else? The title of the new album is White People and the Damage Done. In order to get some of the details behind the new album, Punknews staffer John Gentile recently rang up Biafra where they talked about the album's title, contemplated depression, and argued whether Elton John was good or not. White People and the Damage Done is the bands hardest, most rockingest, most fact-jam-packed release to date. Now, he's just released the third album by his band, Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine. Later, he would go onto record many different projects with artists including DOA, The Melvins, Mojo Nixon, and Ministry. The vocalist and co-founding member of incalculably influential The Dead Kennedys, Biafra introduced radical, specific politics into American punk. In this age of TMZ and Perez Hilton, there is not enough space to waste on talk of who-is-banging-who. He thinks Jimmy Carter's administration is partly responsible for 9-11 and he'll tell you just that. If he thinks you need to know about Middle Eastern politics, then he's not going to mask his opinion behind an ambiguous metaphor. Jello Biafra has no problem with being blunt. Contributed by johngentile, Posted by Kira Wisniewski Interviews 9 years ago
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