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{{AboutPerformance | date = 1997/07/31 | venue = the Varsity Arena | city = Toronto | unit = ON.ca}}<ref>[http://www.mansonlive.com/detail/830.html mansonlive.com bootleg list and setlist for July 31, 1997]</ref> | {{AboutPerformance | date = 1997/07/31 | venue = the Varsity Arena | city = Toronto | unit = ON.ca}}<ref>[http://www.mansonlive.com/detail/830.html mansonlive.com bootleg list and setlist for July 31, 1997]</ref> | ||
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| 6RJfmiIaoyY = Marilyn Manson on MuchMusic News in Canada 1997 | | 6RJfmiIaoyY = Marilyn Manson on MuchMusic News in Canada 1997 | ||
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{{cquote|Today the police told me that if I sang the Patti Smith song "[[Rock 'n' Roll Nigger|Rock 'N' Roll Nigger]]" I would be arrested under that hate crime law for promoting racial disharmony. So to fuck with the police I had a friend of mine, Corey, who happens to be black, accompany me and my bodyguard, Aaron, into my meeting with these moronic individuals. Wearing a police hat, I asked the officer in charge what problems he had with our show. He nervously shuffled through his notes and said "There's one song in particular," as if he couldn't remember what it was, and then he mumbles "Rock and Roll Nigger," specifically so as not to offend Corey, who looks like he'll kick the shit out of anyone who's white. I went on to explain to him that not only did Patti Smith write the song (and not me) but that the song represents that isolation and discrimination of people for their ideas and their beliefs and their art which ironically was exactly what this asshole was doing. He still didn't seem to understand so I told him quite simply I would do the song and we would see what happened when it was done. Though I told him the show wold not be changed, I did change it in several simple ways. I donned a police uniform and something given to me by a fan, a badge formerly in the possession of an officer shot in the line of duty. I also invited Corey to help me sing, in particular the lines with the word nigger in them. We performed the song as an encore, and I introduced it by saying, "I want to tell you about something that happened recently. There's a song that's twenty years old written by a woman named Patti Smith. And a couple of white cops came up to me and they said, 'You can't sing that song.' They said that it's against black people. What I wanna explain to those moronic fucking idiots is that song's about people like me and you, people that get discriminated against for the way we are. Just like they fucking discriminated against us today. And they didn't understand. It's because they are a bunch of fucking idiots. So I dedicate this song to the Canadian police force." What we and the crowd realized more than anything was that nobody here hated "niggers." We all hated cops. I didn't get arrested or even reprimanded. The cops might not have been listening, though. They were probably too busy searching the bathrooms for plungers to stick up our asses.| author = Marilyn Manson | source = [[The Long Hard Road Out of Hell]] - Tour Diary July 31, 1997 Toronto}} | {{cquote|Today the police told me that if I sang the Patti Smith song "[[Rock 'n' Roll Nigger|Rock 'N' Roll Nigger]]" I would be arrested under that hate crime law for promoting racial disharmony. So to fuck with the police I had a friend of mine, Corey, who happens to be black, accompany me and my bodyguard, Aaron, into my meeting with these moronic individuals. Wearing a police hat, I asked the officer in charge what problems he had with our show. He nervously shuffled through his notes and said "There's one song in particular," as if he couldn't remember what it was, and then he mumbles "Rock and Roll Nigger," specifically so as not to offend Corey, who looks like he'll kick the shit out of anyone who's white. I went on to explain to him that not only did Patti Smith write the song (and not me) but that the song represents that isolation and discrimination of people for their ideas and their beliefs and their art which ironically was exactly what this asshole was doing. He still didn't seem to understand so I told him quite simply I would do the song and we would see what happened when it was done. Though I told him the show wold not be changed, I did change it in several simple ways. I donned a police uniform and something given to me by a fan, a badge formerly in the possession of an officer shot in the line of duty. I also invited Corey to help me sing, in particular the lines with the word nigger in them. We performed the song as an encore, and I introduced it by saying, "I want to tell you about something that happened recently. There's a song that's twenty years old written by a woman named Patti Smith. And a couple of white cops came up to me and they said, 'You can't sing that song.' They said that it's against black people. What I wanna explain to those moronic fucking idiots is that song's about people like me and you, people that get discriminated against for the way we are. Just like they fucking discriminated against us today. And they didn't understand. It's because they are a bunch of fucking idiots. So I dedicate this song to the Canadian police force." What we and the crowd realized more than anything was that nobody here hated "niggers." We all hated cops. I didn't get arrested or even reprimanded. The cops might not have been listening, though. They were probably too busy searching the bathrooms for plungers to stick up our asses.| author = Marilyn Manson | source = [[The Long Hard Road Out of Hell]] - Tour Diary July 31, 1997 Toronto}} | ||
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