Ed Droste, lead singer of the Brooklyn-based rock band Grizzly Bear, posted a lengthy anti-Donald Trump message Sunday on his personal Instagram account and the band’s official Facebook page.
In the post, Droste—who backed Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary—railed against the revisionist history of Thanksgiving and lamented “Trump’s America” as “a continuation of white supremacy.”
“I CANNOT deal with whites that feel ‘marginalized,’” Droste wrote. “This country is built on blood, and all y’all ‘make America great again’ idiots are literally harkening back to a fictional idea of the past.”
Droste also railed against the vandalism of longtime Beastie Boys member Adam Yauch’s memorial park. “Let’s make America great again?” Droste wrote. “So let’s spray paint swastikas on (RIP) Beastie Boy’s Adam Yauch memorial PLAYGROUND?”
Droste acknowledged he also wanted to “shake up the system,” but argues he “didn’t choose a candidate that invited hatred and appoints literal white supremacists to their cabinet.”
“So eat your turkey, and be grateful you aren’t under attack because if you voted for Trump you’re pretty much saying your white privilege “trumps” the millions of people that are victims of the hate he enabled and encouraged amongst “the white working class,” Droste wrote.
Signing off, Droste encouraged his supporters to position themselves against a Trump administration and his supporters. “P.S. ‘Alt right’ is a bullshit term to normalize white supremacy. FIGHT,” he concluded.
