24th April 2003, 10:08 PM
WHOA WHOA FUCKING WHOA! skinheads are NOT racists...i repeat NOT RACISTS.
i'll admit that it's terrible that racism occurs, and white supremecists are pieces of shit, but skinheads are not racists. allow me to give a brief history of the skinhead.
it all started in england in the 50's with a group of kids called the mods. these kids were working class, but tried to look rich by buying expensive italian suits. in the 60's a bunch of these kids got together and said "you know what, we're proud to be working class." and they shaved their heads to look like the boys on the docks, who to them were the epitomy of working class. being a skin was about being working class, and it still is. it didn't matter if you were black, white, asian, anything. if you were a skin, you were a brother.
then, in the early 70's the British National Front, a neo nazi organization decided to target skins to join their group. this was effective because there were a lot of immigrants at the time "stealing" their jobs and pissing them off as well as the rastafarian movement in england which turned a lot of black skins into black supremecists. so many a skinhead converted to the nazi party.
when the skinhead craze hit the US in the 70's and 80's it was the nazi skin that appeared, and it wasn't until the mid 80's that "trad skin" (traditional skinhead) culture came over as well as the "SHARP" skins (skinheads against racial prejudice), who are extremely opposed to racism (as their name suggests).
in fact, skins were the forefathers of the punks, who are rather known to be non-racist.
my point here is this: neo nazi skins aren't skins at all, their just stupid bigots. skinheads are a greatly misunderstood group of people, especially here in the states and i find that to be a shame, and so i'm spreading the word.
i've met quite a few skinheads in my day who were really great guys and certainly not nazi's, or racists, or anything of that sort...in fact, i've met a few skins who were beaten up by skinheads for being suspected of being nazi's...that's how touchy these guys are to the prejudice that surrounds THEM.
like i said, white supremecy is ridiculous, and white supremecists should be taken care of, but don't use skinhead as a term to label someone as racist, it isn't fair.
i'll admit that it's terrible that racism occurs, and white supremecists are pieces of shit, but skinheads are not racists. allow me to give a brief history of the skinhead.
it all started in england in the 50's with a group of kids called the mods. these kids were working class, but tried to look rich by buying expensive italian suits. in the 60's a bunch of these kids got together and said "you know what, we're proud to be working class." and they shaved their heads to look like the boys on the docks, who to them were the epitomy of working class. being a skin was about being working class, and it still is. it didn't matter if you were black, white, asian, anything. if you were a skin, you were a brother.
then, in the early 70's the British National Front, a neo nazi organization decided to target skins to join their group. this was effective because there were a lot of immigrants at the time "stealing" their jobs and pissing them off as well as the rastafarian movement in england which turned a lot of black skins into black supremecists. so many a skinhead converted to the nazi party.
when the skinhead craze hit the US in the 70's and 80's it was the nazi skin that appeared, and it wasn't until the mid 80's that "trad skin" (traditional skinhead) culture came over as well as the "SHARP" skins (skinheads against racial prejudice), who are extremely opposed to racism (as their name suggests).
in fact, skins were the forefathers of the punks, who are rather known to be non-racist.
my point here is this: neo nazi skins aren't skins at all, their just stupid bigots. skinheads are a greatly misunderstood group of people, especially here in the states and i find that to be a shame, and so i'm spreading the word.
i've met quite a few skinheads in my day who were really great guys and certainly not nazi's, or racists, or anything of that sort...in fact, i've met a few skins who were beaten up by skinheads for being suspected of being nazi's...that's how touchy these guys are to the prejudice that surrounds THEM.
like i said, white supremecy is ridiculous, and white supremecists should be taken care of, but don't use skinhead as a term to label someone as racist, it isn't fair.
All the kids black and white, together we are dynamite.