Affirmative Action:
Definition: Race-neutral, gender-neutral assurance against actual discrimination. This is the type of Affirmative Action contemplated by President Lyndon Johnson's Executive Order 11246, in which he sought to ensure that individuals have equal opportunity WITHOUT regard to their race, sex, or ethnicity. In this 1965 Executive Order, President Johnson consistently and repeatedly used the term non-discrimination and never once mentioned racial quotas or preferences. The original, unamended version of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 similarly emphasized race-neutrality and non-discrimination.
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION TRIO:
The Drum Counselor - (well... if ya think he's playing the recorder - you're way off)
Josh Johnson - He's the one with the greenest guitar in the universe
Tyson Leslie - Will attempt to sing and play bass guitar at the same time.
Let’s face it folks…
Music is colorful. Race is also colorful. People spend far too much time bitching, fussing, getting cramps, spilling milk, beating spouses, and making a big deal out of what color someone is, and whether or not that makes them sexy enough to be cool.
We think all of you are cool. All of you colorful (and colorless) folks out there... just be you. Because the reality is....... you're cool like George Clooney during his days on ER (not the George Clooney that's on Roseanne reruns on Nick At Nite).
Here in the Affirmative Action Trio you’ll find a Pacific Islander (seriously… that’s what they say on the forms I have to fill out), and African American (even though he’s very much from Dallas, Texas, and hasn’t been to Africa to our knowledge), and a Cracker-ass Crack-headed Cracker white boy with an even whiter girlfriend playing their instruments to the best of their abilities for about 3 hours or so every Tuesday night at a little sexy place known as
Jerry’s Bait Shop.
There’s always gonna be some saltine cracker, some mustard yellow guy, some gooey chocolaty brown guy, some molasses ass black guy, and some red guy with a tee-pee in his back yard playing in a band with one another. Sure white people form all white bands and black people form all black bands and Jews… well, they’re really not a race now are they? They’re just kind of… well, they’re more or less really just a way of life (who happen to have cool holidays where your presents are drawn out over several days and not just one….and a great stereotype involving money and having a lot of it – though I know only a few rich Jews – go figure)?
Anyway… I digress…..
Mixing it up, and stirring up the pot is what we’re all about here in the A.A.T. It’s life, it’s inevitable, and if you don’t like it, you’re probably a member of the KKK or some other party of imbeciles that are completely fun for people like us to laugh about and at. Go read Mein Kampf and have some discussion with a bald headed guy about things that make about as much sense as a Teletubby. I mean seriously people, the idea of one race ruling the world is well… gay. Even gay people think it’s gay... and we loooove gay people (though we have extremely motivated and active heterosexual tendencies).
The Affirmative Action Trio does not draw lines anywhere, musically, racially, sexually and otherwise. Our goal is to bombard you with music that we like, and that hopefully you like. If you don’t like it or you don’t like us, then we welcome you to go down the street to that other club that plays a whole lotta crap that we don’t like… but maybe you’ll like. Get that?
We don’t put a barrier on our song choices by genre, decade, or anything else like some of the other bands that you’re probably used to seeing on Tuesday nights (as this is the only night of the week we are performing at the time). Instead we offer a cornucopia of musical tapestry that permeates your mind, senses and hopefully gets you stimulated, sexually motivated, and ultimately laid at the end of the evening after having seen us rock your innards to liquid exclamation.
Bring your sexy self to the Bait shop and get colorful, but more importantly – get down with yer bad self.
