24th April 2003, 10:53 PM
i never argued that punks weren't jerks, many of them are...to non-punks. and i never argued that the non-racist skins weren't a bunch of trouble makers, as they do their share of making trouble. all i was saying was that punks are non-racist, and have been in favor of unity since their inception, and that they are a spin-off culture of the trad skins, and that originally, skinheads weren't racist, and that there's a good deal of non-racist skins out there (maybe even more than there are racist skins).
the problem is that the racist skin in america came first, and so people like to associate skinheads with being racist...which isn't rad.
and just because you've never heard of them doesn't mean they don't exist, as they do. to annyone who deosn't believe me i suggest checking your local library for "Spirit of '69" if you can find it there, or the novel "american skin". both are great books about skinhead culture that go a great deal into dispelling the myth about skinheads as nazis.
if you can't find the above books at you local library, or don't care enough to check, amazon.com i believe, has book reviews for spirit of '69, among the reviewers are black and asian skinheads. it shouldn't eat up too much of your time to at least glance at those.
finally, i can't see why you wouldn't believe me as it seems like an aweful lot for me to just make up for fun.
and further feul for my fire... i'll bring myself into this. i have never in my life been a white supremecist as i don't dig supremecty as a whole...every race should be equal and the people within each race should be judged on individual merits. but for a period of my life i considered myself a skinhead and had a shaved head. then i decided that i agreed more with the punk philosophy and dropped the skinhead thing...but i still have a shirt that says "skinhead" on it, and wear it proudly as a punk. i do this because i hope for the day when someone sees the shirt and asks me why it says skinhead and i can tell them that skinheads aren't racists.
this is sort of a mission that i'm on at this point in my life...and i'm glad that i got the chance to bring it up here. because like i said, the skins that i've met have been really great guys, and i hate the negative image that they've aquired here in the states.
the problem is that the racist skin in america came first, and so people like to associate skinheads with being racist...which isn't rad.
and just because you've never heard of them doesn't mean they don't exist, as they do. to annyone who deosn't believe me i suggest checking your local library for "Spirit of '69" if you can find it there, or the novel "american skin". both are great books about skinhead culture that go a great deal into dispelling the myth about skinheads as nazis.
if you can't find the above books at you local library, or don't care enough to check, amazon.com i believe, has book reviews for spirit of '69, among the reviewers are black and asian skinheads. it shouldn't eat up too much of your time to at least glance at those.
finally, i can't see why you wouldn't believe me as it seems like an aweful lot for me to just make up for fun.
and further feul for my fire... i'll bring myself into this. i have never in my life been a white supremecist as i don't dig supremecty as a whole...every race should be equal and the people within each race should be judged on individual merits. but for a period of my life i considered myself a skinhead and had a shaved head. then i decided that i agreed more with the punk philosophy and dropped the skinhead thing...but i still have a shirt that says "skinhead" on it, and wear it proudly as a punk. i do this because i hope for the day when someone sees the shirt and asks me why it says skinhead and i can tell them that skinheads aren't racists.
this is sort of a mission that i'm on at this point in my life...and i'm glad that i got the chance to bring it up here. because like i said, the skins that i've met have been really great guys, and i hate the negative image that they've aquired here in the states.
All the kids black and white, together we are dynamite.