Posted on 07/25/2013 8:18:04 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
NEW HAVEN >> Activists are brainstorming on the next step in response to rocker Ted Nugent’s scheduled appearance in the city next month.
“We’re a city in mourning right now,” longtime activist Barbara Fair said recently.
Nugent, after a Florida jury found George Zimmerman trial not guilty in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, was widely quoted as saying the slain youth was a “dope-smoking, racist gangsta wannabe.”
Activists are working to “make it clear” Nugent is not welcome in the city, Greta Boudreau said recently.
“All of us who see Trayvon as our son and brother, when (Nugent) comes riding into town, we intend to ... let him know how we feel about the comments made about Trayvon,” Fair said.
They are also concerned that Toad’s Place did not cancel Nugent’s Aug. 6 show.
“Out of respect for people who are experiencing so much grief, we think that the business that is based in New Haven, that makes money on New Haven people, should not allow him to come here,” Boudreau said.
Toad’s owner Brian Phelps said he’s “the venue guy.”
“We’re just putting on a show,” Phelps said.
“You’ve got a lot of artists that play here, some on the extreme right and some on the extreme left, and if you tell one side or the other, then you’re actually hurting the other side,” Phelps said earlier this week.
When asked to name an act on the other side politically, Phelps said, “I don’t want to get into that.”
Toad’s seating depends on the show, Phelps said. It can accommodate about 750 people, he said.
Asked if the publicity surrounding the Nugent appearance has spurred sales, Phelps said, “I’m not sure of where the advance sales came from, but we do have advance sales, yeah.”
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They are living in denial.
Why are New Haven folks upset about the Trayvon Martin case? If they want to make a fuss because a pro-gun singer is coming, they should do it because of the Newtown shooting. Newtown is a lot closer to New Haven than Sanford—only an hour’s drive away. I know because I was working in Connecticut last year, and I remember spending a February evening in Newtown.
Which word of Ted Nuggent’s rant rang false?
None that I am aware of
Ted Nugent got banned at the Woodlands near Houston for saying at one of his concerts (elsewhere if I’m not mistaken) that people in America should speak English.
The management at the Woodlands’ pavilion (summer shedhouse concert series) was okay with Chrissy Hynde of the Pretenders asking from the stage AT THAT VENUE if there were any meat eaters in the audience and then demanding that they “choke on it”.
Same with the antisemitic, antichristian, anti-anyone running against Obama in 2008 “scapegoat” pig at Roger “Pink Floyd” Waters’ fascist concert rally. “GET THEM UP AGAINST THE WALL!”
He’s still getting blowback for continued actions of this variety. I have no doubt that should he tour again, the Woodlands would gladly have him.
There exists a blacklist in the entertainment world. It is decidedly anti-conservative.
SCREW the million dollar marxists.
Yep.
If he ever goes back to Houston, he should avoid that Woodlands place like the plague
Well trayvon was a good student. He was only 16. He was attacked by Mr. Zimmerman. Mr. Zimmerman was ordered to stay in his car. It was self defense, Trayvon was afraid Zimmerman was gay rapist...
So many lies. So little understanding.
I hope some of these “activists” go to the concert, and get their a$$ES KICKED : )
I hope it gets to Youtube!
Better watch out punks...Nugent is packing!
That's not a crowd that is likely to take kindly to intimidation. The term is "fed up" and I'm hearing it from some rather unlikely sources. This thing could get a lot uglier than it already is.
One more to add to our collection : )
They need to read J.S. Mill.
Just so we are clear. LOL
“We’re a city in mourning”. I went to the BC-Yale football game there in 1984. Time to move on.
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