[not abuse] Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys

[KinkyF and those Texans]

1. Defendant: ¿½*<CC>< ThÄ“Micah ºαQº.

2. Their Steam Id: STEAM_0:1:36838538

3. What server: Jailbreak

4. About what time: 5 PM EST

5. PROOF: I'm not asking for any discipline of Micha, simply a ruling on whether the name "KinkyF. and the Texas Jewboys" is facially racist or implied racism. But since it may be a barrier to a decision, http://imgur.com/QKGwh .

6. Please tell us about the incident:

 

Who else could have written a country song about the Holocaust ("Ride 'Em Jewboy"), or about a human being kept in a cage as part of a circus "Wild Man From Borneo"? Outrageous and irreverent but nearly always thought-provoking, Kinky Friedman wrote and performed satirical country songs during the 1970s and has been hailed as the Frank Zappa of country music. The son of a University of Texas professor who raised his children on the family ranch, Rio Duckworth, he was born Richard F. Friedman. He studied psychology at Texas and founded his first band while there. However, King Arthur & the Carrots -- a group that poked fun at surf music -- recorded only one single, in 1966. After graduation, Friedman served three years in the Peace Corps; he was stationed in Borneo, where he was an agricultural extension worker.

 

By 1971 he had founded his second band, Kinky Friedman & the Texas Jewboys. In keeping with the group's satirical songs, each member had a deliberately politically incorrect name: they called themselves Little Jewford, Big Nig, Panama Red, Rainbow Colors, and Snakebite Jacobs. Friedman got his break in 1973 thanks to Commander Cody, who contacted Vanguard Music on behalf of the acerbic young performer. That was the year he and his group made their debut album, Sold American, featuring John Hartford and Tompall Glaser. The title track, a bitter tale of a forgotten country singer dying an alcoholic death, barely made it onto the charts, but Friedman did attract enough attention to be invited to the Grand Ole Opry. In 1974, he recorded an eponymously titled album for ABC Records. Produced by Los Angeles pop helmsman Steve Barri, the album dissolved whatever pure country listenership Friedman might have had but delighted his growing hard core of fans with satirical pieces such as his response to anti-Semitism, "They Ain't Making Jews like Jesus Anymore." Along with the satires Friedman offered quieter sketches of American hard luck such as "Rapid City, South Dakota." In the mid-'70s, Friedman and his band began touring with Bob Dylan & the Rolling Thunder Revue. In 1976 he made his third album, Lasso From El Paso, featuring Dylan and Eric Clapton. The Texas Jewboys disbanded three years later, and Friedman moved to New York, where he often appeared at the Lone Star Cafe. In 1983, he released Under the Double Ego for Sunrise Records.

 

After that, Friedman turned primarily toward writing, although he continued to make occasional nightclub appearances. He has written for Rolling Stone and Texas Monthly magazines and, most famously, has become a writer of unique and outrageous mystery novels such as Greenwich Killing Time, A Case of Lone Star, and The Mile High Club. Equal parts whimsy and metaphysics, the books blur fiction and reality. They feature a Jewish country singer turned Greenwich Village private eye named Kinky Friedman, who sometimes returns to his native Texas; other characters are drawn from Friedman's circle of friends in both New York and Texas. Many of Friedman's songs of the 1970s and early '80s were collected on two CD compilations, Old Testaments and New Revelations (1994) and From One Good American to Another (1995). In 1999, the likes of Willie Nelson, Tom Waits, and Lyle Lovett covered Friedman's music on the tribute album Pearls in the Snow: The Songs of Kinky Friedman, and a second tribute volume was planned. In 2003 Friedman appeared in a nude, cigar-smoking triplicate on the cover of the Dallas Observer magazine, in a parody of the Dixie Chicks' nude Entertainment Weekly pose of that year. Vanguard released a 30th anniversary edition of Sold American (which included a couple of bonus tracks) in 2003. Mayhem Aforethought appeared in June of 2005, followed by They Ain't Making Jews Like Jesus Anymore later that October.

 

TL, DR; Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys were a Jewish country band in the 1970s who fought anti-Semitism through satirical song. I was banned for using "KinkyF. and the Texas Jewboys" as my name by �*<CC>< ThÄ“Micah ºαQº. Give the context and without additional factors, I don't believe that this name is offensive or racist. Rather, I believe that some people might see the name, google it, and learn a bit about how Jewish country music star Kinky Friedman used music to fight anti-Semitism in 1970s Texas.

 

I know the rule about admin decisions, but I honestly believe that at some point an admin's judgment can be so far off the mark as to warrant reversal by his or her learned elders. I humbly submit this event as one for consideration by these elders.

Edited February 14, 2012 by KinkyF and those Texans

[Awwik]

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[Bonbon]

You were not banned by Micah for your name.

 

You were banned by me because I got complaints that you were being a prick, ignoring, and disrespecting Micah.

 

Micah asked you nicely to change your name, because he thought it offensive, and you continued to flame him.

 

http://hellsgamers.gameme.com/player_histories/chat/1817173

 

[KinkyF and those Texans]

Bonbon, do you think the name is racist?

[Kigen]

You need to respect admins in the server.

 

Nothing good comes out of fighting admins in the server.

 

Not abuse.

 

~Locked