{"id":18611,"date":"2019-10-21T10:18:41","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T14:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=18611"},"modified":"2019-10-21T10:18:41","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T14:18:41","slug":"former-scorpions-drummer-james-kottak-is-a-racist-dipshit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=18611","title":{"rendered":"Former Scorpions Drummer James Kottak is a Racist Dipshit."},"content":{"rendered":"

Former SCORPIONS<\/b> and current KINGDOM COME<\/b> drummer James Kottak<\/b> says that he is “sick” of seeing commercials featuring “interracial couples,” insisting that “this is not reality.”<\/p>\n

Kottak<\/b> tweeted:<\/p>\n

“You know I am sick of every other commercial having <\/strong>inter racial couples…this is not reality. It is Hollywood shoving it down our throat. I don’t have one friend or friends who live in this category…just saying” He added several emojis, including those of various animals, the U.S. flag and a thumbs-up gesture.<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to The New York Times<\/a>, a number of companies and brands like JPMorgan Chase<\/b>, Humira<\/b>, State Farm<\/b>, Smile Direct Club<\/b>, Coors Light<\/b>, Macy’s<\/b>, Tide<\/b> and Cadillac<\/b> have recently featured multiracial couples or families in their advertising.<\/p>\n

Sarah Block<\/b>, the executive vice president and creative director of Leo Burnett USA<\/b>, who has worked on several ads depicting multiracial families, including commercials for Kraft<\/b>, told the paper that the prevalence of these commercials “is a reflection of modern society. It’s portraying the situation that is out in the world,” she said.<\/p>\n

This is not the first time Kottak<\/b> has used Twitter<\/b> as a way to voice his controversial views. Last month, he raised eyebrows when he questioned whether climate change is real, writing in a series of since-deleted tweets: “Tell me when one time you have seen ‘killed from climate change’ or ‘death from second hand smoke’ appeared on a gravestone….and I am a total anti smoker… it’s all b s”<\/p>\n

Back in July, he angered some people on the social media platform when he wrote that “anyone against America is a socialist communist asshole.”<\/p>\n

The unusual Independence Day greetings came after the musician wished his 18 thousand followers a happy holiday on Twitter<\/b>.<\/p>\n

“Happy Fourth…. Trump<\/b> rules!” the 56-year-old musician wrote, adding in a separate tweet: “Any one against America is a socialist communist a hole . Happy fourth”<\/p>\n

In June, Kottak<\/b>, who calls himself a “news political junkie” on Twitter<\/b>, made BLABBERMOUTH.NET<\/b> headlines<\/a> when he said that America should take care of its “homeless problem” before accepting any more “outsiders.”<\/p>\n

Kottak<\/b> has spent much of the last year touring with the reunited KINGDOM COME<\/b>, also featuring guitarists Danny Stag<\/b> and Rick Steier<\/b>, bassist Johnny B. Frank<\/b> and singer Keith St. John<\/b> (formerly of MONTROSE<\/b> and LYNCH MOB<\/b>).<\/p>\n

In September 2016, Kottak<\/b> was dismissed from SCORPIONS<\/b> during his well-publicized battle with alcoholism and was replaced by former MOT\u00d6RHEAD<\/b> member Mikkey Dee<\/b>.<\/p>\n

SCORPIONS<\/b> guitarist Matthias Jabs<\/b> later said that he and his bandmates “had to make” the decision to fire Kottak<\/b>, explaining that they gave the drummer “all the chances” to get better. “We reached the point \u2014 or he<\/i> reached the point \u2014 where it was just not worth it,” Jabs<\/b> said.<\/p>\n

Last fall, Kottak<\/b> told Detroit’s 101 WRIF<\/b> radio station that his recovery was “a work in progress.” He explained: “Over the last 10 years, I would say I was 90 percent sober, and then I’d have these struggles and I’d go through a bad two- or three-week period. So right now it’s, like I said, to use a clich\u00e9, it’s one day at a time and I work the program. I still go out, and if you wanna drink a bottle of Jack in front of me, go for it \u2014 [it’s] no big deal \u2014 but it is, like I said, a work in progress.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former SCORPIONS and current KINGDOM COME drummer James Kottak says that he is “sick” of seeing commercials featuring “interracial couples,” insisting that “this is not reality.” Kottak tweeted: “You know I am sick of every other commercial having inter racial couples…this is not reality. It is Hollywood shoving it down our throat. I don’t have one friend or friends who live in this category…just saying” He added several emojis, including those of various animals, the U.S. flag and a thumbs-up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":-1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[277],"tags":[2273,2087,2080,2230,2229,2085,2077,180,2078,2090,2158,561,2084,2086,2079,2076,2196,2088,2089,1844,2081,2272,2271,364,2083],"class_list":["post-18611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-news","tag-blog","tag-classic-rock","tag-classic-rock-blog","tag-folk-music-blog","tag-folk-rock-blog","tag-hard-rock","tag-hard-rock-blog","tag-heavy-metal","tag-heavy-metal-blog","tag-instrumental-bands","tag-james-kottak","tag-kingdom-come","tag-mailchimp","tag-metal","tag-metal-blog","tag-music-blog","tag-occult-rock-blog","tag-prog-rock","tag-progressive-rock","tag-psych-rock","tag-psych-rock-blog","tag-psychedelic-rock","tag-racism","tag-scorpions","tag-wordpress"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}