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Don't Judge A Book By Its
Cover
What I was most curious to see was how the abolitionist journal RACE TRAITOR would go over with the predominantly white crowd. Our first bite was two muscular types with eastern accents that asked about one of the small journals. I pointed them to the issue with the exchange with the national socialist. Our curious customer then opened up with some comments describing his fondness for David Duke and his lack of approval for Bill Clinton. I then told him that the RACE TRAITOR anthology was the best buy; he took one and two of the journals. Twenty-five dollars, without tax. After this first sale we were discussing that he apparently thought that RACE TRAITOR was some sort of exposé on those selling out the white race written from a white-supremacist point of view. I left the booth for about 45 minutes and upon my return, I learned that our customer had figured out RACE TRAITOR and had come back for a refund. He was denied and left before we could offer our advice: Don't judge a book by its cover! We sold one more copy of RACE TRAITOR that weekend; it was the same scenario. The purchaser thought it was from a white-supremacist view point. Although he didn't actually say he was a nazi, he and the other two fellas were wearing matching Turner Diaries T-shirts and said they weren't Klansmen, just "Tim McVeigh types." We abolitionists are continuing our tabling at gun shows as well as at the upcoming Juneteenth celebration in Tulsa. |
Tulsa-area abolitionists
recently set up a book table at the biannual Wannamacher Gun
Show (billed as the world's largest, with over 3500 tables).
We had a wide variety of books (history, how-to, and some fiction)
and assorted items to sell.|
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