For those of us who occasionally strive to defend heritage-minded, guitar based indie rock from critics who would gleefully dance on its graves, Jake Bugg is a real bummer.
This bloody and disturbing ritual engenders annual confrontations between antis from across the country and locals who passionately defend the heritage value of the fiesta.
Titled "Defending My Heritage," it's due to be published this month.
Defending this heritage is what separates a democracy from a tyranny, but the champions of our liberty hardly fit a mould either.
In "Defending My Heritage," Bessinger's 2001 autobiography, he claims that he and his family always treated black people well, citing his father's practice, at a restaurant he owned, of giving a black employee discarded food and old grease.
In this year's Virginia gubernatorial race, a Trump-like rabble-rouser named Corey Stewart, whose main issue was defending Confederate heritage, narrowly lost in the GOP primary to establishment figure Ed Gillespie.
"Hopi Indians are totally opposed to the trade of these objects and for these objects to be shown, (their images) published and scattered," said Jean-Patrick Razon, head of Survival International, which defends cultural heritage.
She wears a khaki vest with a large button that says, "I defend my cultural heritage".
A description of the costume on another website, Wholesale Halloween Costumes, read: "Defend your Jewish heritage proudly by wearing the Israeli Soldier Boy's Costume!
It is perfectly normal that two founding countries of Europe [France and Germany], and the two largest European economies, should take up the front line to defend a European heritage that has been bequeathed to us by our predecessors.
