Glenn Danzig on White Pride

From an interview in SECONDS magazine a couple of years ago.

SECONDS: Quentin Tarantino glorifies violence but doesn't seem to have experienced true violence.

DANZIG: Is he glorifying violence or just commenting on the world today? We've had wars forever, intrigue forever, people being framed for stuff they didn't do since the dawn of time. We've had genocide since the Christians were murdered by the Romans. We've had slavery forever. It kills me when everyone acts like Black people were the only slaves. Tell that to the Spanish people down in Mexico who were made slaves. Tell that to the families in Germany and England who were all slaves at one time. Tell that to the people in England who had to give up their wives the first night of their wedding because they weren't people, just part of the land, and the king could have any wife he wanted on the first night of her marriage.

SECONDS: There's Black-on-Black slavery in. Africa, today.

DANZIG: Reverend Farrakhan now finally admits that Black brothers in Africa sold Black brothers to Dutch traders. We all knew that but now he's admitting it. You can't rewrite history; everybody's family at one time was a slave. If there was a war and you were captured, you were a slave. The Romans had Greek slaves and the Greeks weren't Black. Historically, slavery is not just Black people in the United States. There's slavery going on right now with Asians and I don't see everyone freaking out. There's slavery where young blonde girls go over to Japan and are never heard of again. If we really want to comment on slavery, let's not just go back to the 1800s. Someone might say I'm being insensitive but I'm being realistic about it. It's an insensitive subject.

SECONDS: You've raised the question of what's wrong with being proud to be White.

DANZIG: Why would I not be proud of being White? "Look what all the White people have done --" Well, look what all the Black people have done. Look what all the Mexican people have done. Every race has a ahadaw east over it at some point in history. What race am I? I'm a mutt, I'm a mix of a bunch of different stuff and so is everybody else. There is no "original" race anymore. As far as me being an Aryan or a racist, anyone who knows me knows that's bullshit. But if there's a race war, what I am going to do? Twenty Black guys with guns aren't going to care that I'm not with anybody.

SECONDS: Is that in, our future?

DANZIG: Sure. Civil wars like that have always happened and are always going to happen. As much as you'd like to change it, the world will always take you back to what it is. You're just a speck on this planet and as the world evolves, it repeats itself.

SECONDS: There are cleansing processes.

DANZIG: Nature has its own cleansing processes -- AIDS may be one of them. Ebola, all these different things, nature controls what happens on this planet. The world always has its way of clarifying things.

SECONDS: If you stand for anything, you're considered a racist.

DANZIG: They can suck my dic* and die. There's so many double standards. If you're proud and White, all of a sudden you're racist That's not the case and anyone with half a brain knows that. Unfortunately, we live in a world where a lot of people don't have half a brain. People try to acquiesce to certain groups and then that becomes a reverse inequality."