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Because I grew up on metal, I had to answer this. Metal bands that had black members included Thin Lizzy, the Plasmatics, Living Color, Body Count, King’s X, Suicidal Tendencies and even Guns and Roses (Slash is black) with their famous anti-black song, ‘One in a Million.’ There are plenty of black fans of metal. But because there are about six or seven times as many whites as there are blacks in the United States, it’s much easier to notice the greater numbers of white kids into rap than black kids into metal. But if you look at the metal scene in places with a large black population, like Detroit, you’d quickly see how many black metal fans are out there. There was a huge problem with racism in the metal scene when I grew up, though. Some bands like Slayer, Marilyn Manson and, ironically enough, Kiss (who are all Jewish) flirt with Nazi imagery or beliefs. Sometimes there were dumb metal fans who’d say moronic things like ‘F*** that n****r music, I like rock,’ forgetting that rock came from black music, the blues. So there were good reasons for black fans of metal to feel out of place or even threatened at shows, and some stayed home rather than deal with that BS.

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Name : ACC24040, Gender : M, Race : Mexican and American Indian, Age : 35, City : W. Lafayette, State : IN, Country : United States, 

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