Ron,

First, we aren't all liberals, so I think you need to adjust some of your assumptions. I am a member of the radical left, don't appreciate being put in the same camp with self-declared liberals.

Second, the timing of the conference reservations remain irrelevant to me. What matters is that there is a NAACP boycott on NOW. That that inconveniences FA and people like yourself bothers me not one whit.

Thirdly, violating the NAACP boycott only matters to people who are concerned about their reputations in their own community. It seems to me, a number of folkies are "wrestling" with this only because they are looking for a way to have their cake and eat it too. It ain't gonna happen. If people cross the picket line, there will be repercussions down the road for at least some of them, if they are trying to make money in the folk music business. And they will almost certainly have committed political suicide. But if you are apolitical or anti-political, I don't see how that would matter anyway.

If those are all chances you are willing to take, go for it, and walk across the line and into the hotel.

Just don't expect the rest of us to condone your decision.