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Everyneurotic: Are you basing this on actually reading about ADF and knowing their music, or are you talking on the basis of some mis-quotes on this thread?

I don't think they're racists. I think they are one of the more intelligent bands out there (again, not that their music does a great deal for me). I think they have a lot to say about 'post-colonial Britain', insofar as they aren't terribly interested in the guitar side of things (which, as has been said, is not necessarily a 'white' thing) but they are interested in the cross-pollination of musical styles which you wouldn't be able to get anywhere other than Britain. A group of disenfranchised Asian kids is pretty much the same as an American hardcore band (just usually more attractive); I don't really see anything terribly racist in a band that throws in Indian classical, Dancehall, British Bhangra, British Drum n' bass, odds and sods of heavy metal into their songs. Again, I don't like it, but it is a very 'multi-cultural' British (that's BRITISH, not Indian or anything else) thing to do.

What few interviews I've read with ADF they are pretty much constantly speaking up for the opressed everywhere - not just against white opressors, oppresors period. It's a subtle difference.