*Sigh*
"311 is an Omaha police code for indecent exposure. One rainy day, P-Nut and some friends went skinny dipping in a public pool. They were apprehended by police. One of P-Nut's friends (Jim Watson) was arrested, cuffed (naked) and taken home to his parents. He was issued a citation for a code 311 (indecent exposure). We thought this was funny, so we took it as our band name. After the humor of the name wore off, we still kept it because we liked that it was just abstract and that it did not define us in anyway. The name did not describe our sound or our politics, it just let the music speak for itself."
It's a fucking police code, just like 187 and 420. I wonder why 112 hasn't been given any shit about their name standing for the BBBBBBBBBBB

At any rate, anyone who's listened to their music knows that 311 is not racist, and neither am I. 311 also brought with them to the Warped Tour last year the Anti-Racism crew, that set up a tent selling anti-racism and anti-nazi paraphernailia.