19.07.08 - Today I meandered through Leeds to the city's HMV store and purchased Ice Cube's 'Death Certificate' CD.  Nothing spectacular there admittedly but the racist lyrics were clearly in contravention of the incitement to racial hatred laws so I proceeded to a City police station and lodged an official complaint with officers there.  I took with me a comprehensive list of the offensive lyrics which included numerous derogatory references to White people which I then relayed to the officers dealing with my enquiry.  

I was taken to a room and pointed out that I found the lyrics offensive, they caused me harm and distress and were unequivocally in breach of various UK laws. The male officer stated that due to a disclaimer on the front of the CD, in his opinion this made it OK so I then pointed out that on that inference, if I wore a tshirt saying I might offend, under UK law I could make racist remarks and be exempt from legislation. Apparently I was incorrect with that assumption! So too was I when I stated that I was free to publicly offer for sale CD's which contained lyrics which threatened to kill negroes if it was legal to sell CD's threatening to kill White people!  I then pointed out the recent Simon Sheppard case where a successful prosecution came about for anti-semitic literature and clearly lyrics which berate Aryan people should be dealt with similarly.

When asked my reason for making this complaint I stated that it was due to fervent political oppression as an indigenous White person and my subsequent desire to see that the UK's race relations laws are applied universally without exception - to non-Whites as well as Whites.  I find the absolute lack of any White power music from stores offensive when Black power ones are so readily available and this is the issue I sought to redress.