Round-up

1. Apparently several "rockers" pulled out of a Rock Against Racism gig:

It's apparently a lot easier to get musicians to say they'll play Rock Against Racism than to actually get them up on stage.

Fans were left in the lurch last week at the 30th anniversary of the Rock Against Racism benefit concert when Lethal Bizzle, Wiley and ex-Specials front man Jerry Dammers failed to appear at the gig. While Bizzle pled illness, Wiley and Dammers simply flaked out.

Lethal Bizzle, Wiley and Jerry Dammers! The shame, that such high-profile musicians should pull out of this important gig! What kind of role model are they setting for the public?

Incidentally, two of the musicians above, Lethal Bizzle and Wiley, are black (and they are rappers, not "rockers"). Seems blacks don't care about racism anymore, either...

2. Here is a complex case involving white-on-black racism and the alleged false sentencing of a black boy in a violence case. It's interesting stuff and I hope the truth is finally outed, whatever it may be.