RaHoWa (band)
RaHoWa (sometimes RAHOWA) are a defunct Canadian White supremacist band. The band name is an abbreviation of Racial Holy War. Their lyrics are explicitly racist and violent. This example is from their song "Third Reich".
- Kill all the niggers and you gas all the jews
- Kill a gypsy and a coloured too
- You just killed a kike
- Don't it feel right
- Goodness gracious, Third Reich
(Some sources give the last line of these lyrics as "Goodness gracious, darn right". However the version given here is from an interview with George Burdi, and is probably correct.)
The band also played modified Nancy Sinatra covers with new lyrics such as:
- These boots are made for stomping
- That's just what they'll do
- One of these days these boots are gonna stomp all over Jews.
They are distributed by Resistance Records, who specialise in white supremacist music. George Burdi, prominent white supremacist who was at the time involved with the Church of the Creator and was one-time owner of Resistance Records, founded and led the band using the pseudonym Eric Hawthorne. Burdi dropped out of the white supremacist movement following a 1997 conviction for promoting hatred and assaulting an anti-racist protestor. He now plays in a multiracial band called Novacosm and has an Asian Indian girlfriend.
RAHOWA was very popular among neo-Nazi skinheads and their concerts are alleged to have incited violence. In the hours following one gig in Toronto in 1993, several concert goers attacked a Tamil man, beating him into a coma and leaving him permanently disabled.
External links
- Present at the Creation Interview with Burdi about RaHoWa, Resistance Records and his time as a white supremacist.
- Racists Can't Rock: The Resistance Records Story features information on Burdi and RAHOWA.
- Resistance Records Resistance Records, the label previously owned by George Burdi of Rahowa