Go download the free new CD from the Bastard Fairies. To be honest, I'm not sure I like it or not - I know it is interestingly different from anything else I listen to. You can then go and watch their YouTube videos, including the controversial one called The Coolest 8 Year Old In The World Talks About O'Reilly.
Are they using that girl for political purposes? Shit yeah. Do I have a problem with it? Not really. I used to do the pro-choice marches at clinics; I've seen enemy children with pictures of bloody fetuses. The enemy indoctrinates their children young; we should not indoctrinate, but we should teach and get them active and involved at a young age. This is the world they will inherit - they'd best know how to fight for it. Would I let my daughter be in a video like that? No, but that is a personal parenting decision. I haven't walked a mile in their shoes to know why they did that.
Besides, I do know that the singer for Bastard Fairies is Yellow Thunder Woman. She is Native American, a direct decendant of the Great Ponca Chief Standing Bear, an Indian princess and member of the Yankton Sioux. So, I don't think she or her family owe the United States, its white cultures and heritage, any respect at all. Nor should they teach that little girl to respect this country. This nation was founded upon the genocide of the Native American and rather than face and renounce our evil, selfish past, we are expanding it to embrace torture and secret prisons.
Just my opinion.
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