Philip Anselmo: 'When People Throw Around The Word 'Racist.
Much like how everyone in the metal scene nowadays recognizes that Dave Mustaine is a raging homophobe and the late Don Decker was a rather vile sexist, it's time to admit that Phil Anselmo is a racist, that he isn't perfect and to stop putting him on a fucking pedestal. The end result of this isn't me throwing out my Pantera albums or calling for a complete boycott of Down. I'm just going to.I don't believe Phil anselmo is racist but perhaps i am swayed slightly by the fact that pantera were (are) my favourite band. You have to remember that for most of his career he has been drunk.This apology was damage limitation on a known racist. You clearly know a lot about Phil, but made no mention of his White Power shirt on MTV, or his previous White Power speech on stage, or.
UPDATE: Phil Anselmo has published an apology. As you probably heard, Phil Anselmo, former singer of Pantera (as well as Down and a bunch of other projects) decided to end a show at a tribute to Dimebag Darrel by yelling “White Power!” and giving what can only be described as a Hitler salute (a.k.a Roman salute).Since quite a few people called him out on it, he defended his actions by.Phil Anselmo sat down with radio host Eddie Trunk on SiriusXM yesterday for a 20-minute interview. Though Anselmo vowed his talk with Decibel Magazine earlier this year would be his last on the topic, Trunk asked him about the racism accusations that were leveled against him earlier this year for the white power salute he gave at Dimebash.And, as Phil is wont to do, he started talking.
No one, certainly not Morrissey, is quite as obnoxiously overt as 1976 Clapton any more, we can at least say that much, though Phil Anselmo of Pantera certainly tried to give it a go with his white suprematist larks at a California gig back in January. Subconscious racism, manifested in sins of omission abounds, of course, but those responsible will protest that they Don't Have A Racist Bone.
