DJ Rick,
I posted Nilesh's letter prior to learning that it was being discussed @ heckasack. I felt that it was an important thing to post for my friends.
I know that you have alot to lose as far as having a place to throw shows in the future, but this needs to be seriously discussed, before people decide whether they will keep going to your shows @ the FF.
My friends are still very hurt and angry from this incident and I think it's very insensitive of you to want to expediantly sweep the matter under the rug, for the sake of your shows.
:: This just in FOOL'S FOUNDATION has changed its name to RACIST
::FOOL'S FOUNDATION (R.F.F).
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:So, does this controversy still have legs after Eason himself apologized publicly and promised to apologized privately to the harmed individuals?
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:A rash of 18 comments--17 of which condemned such behavior--streamed into Heckasac blog in the three hours after this message was originally posted there, but the last three house have been silent since Eason posted his apology and expressed his feelings of guilt. That seems to suggest that the community reading Heckasac is reasonably satisfied with the apology.
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:Now, a full hour after the hubbub has quieted there, we get this re-post over here.
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:Now it really reeks of a smear campaign against Fools Foundation by an anonymous "friend" of the aggrieved party.
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:I just think that that is wrong because Liz is the one person making Fools Foundation happen for the good of an art and music community that otherwise lacks a space for meeting and enjoying a variety of cool stuff.
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:I think drunken comments and gone-too-far race-based jokes suck, too, but I don't know Nilesh and Sandra, and I don't know Eason except to say I know what he looks like and we exchanged smiles and nods once as we passed each other in the stairs leading down to FF...But as someone who was not party to this conversation that happened in the middle of the night when everyone was crocked, I'm not sympathetic to this boycott.
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:Having read the apology from Eason to Nilesh and the community sympathetic to Nilesh--which certainly includes me based on how I feel about drunks running their mouths (hell, ask Ben Duax about my brand of tough love)--I'm especially ready to see this issue go back to being a private affair between two individuals who had previously held each other in so much esteem that they'd enjoy a Thanksgiving dinner together, and leave the best thing to happen to Sacramento music in the last two years totally out of it.
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:As for the comments about the Abu Ghraib musical, I'm only pissed now that the entire plot and premise has been ruined. The element of shock is gone now. Thanks for PC attitudes effectively pre-censoring art before it's been unveiled.
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:I'm on both Eason's and Nilesh's side in hoping this thing gets worked out. We should all have a tolerance party at Fools where they hug and kiss, and everyone blisses out to some neo-hippie freak-folk/psych weirdness.
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