Skinhead Bill has Quit Aryan Brotherhood
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THEBIGWOOP
A skinhead is a member of a subculture that originated among working class youth in the United Kingdom in the 1960s, and then spread to other parts of the world. Named for their close-cropped or shaven heads, the first skinheads were greatly influenced by West Indian (specifically Jamaican) rude boys and British mods, in terms of fashion, music and lifestyle. Originally, the skinhead subculture was primarily based on those elements, not politics or race.
Since then, however, attitudes toward race and politics have become
factors in which some skinheads align themselves. The political
spectrum within the skinhead scene ranges from the far right to the far left, although many skinheads are apolitical. Fashion-wise, skinheads range from a clean-cut 1960s mod-influenced style to less-strict punk- and hardcore-influenced styles.
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In the late 1950s, the United Kingdom's entrenched class system limited most working class people's educational, housing, and economic opportunities. However, Britain's post-war economic boom led to an increase in disposable income among many young people. Some of those youths spent that income on new fashions popularised by American soul groups, British R&B bands, certain movie actors, and Carnaby Street clothing merchants.
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These youths became known as the mods, a youth subculture noted for its consumerism—and devotion to fashion, music, and scooters. Mods of lesser means made do with practical styles that suited their lifestyle and employment circumstances: steel-toe boots, straight-leg jeans or Sta-Prest trousers, button-down shirts, and braces (called suspenders
in the USA). When possible, these working-class mods spent their money
on suits and other sharp outfits to wear at dancehalls, where they
enjoyed soul, ska, bluebeat and rocksteady music.
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Around 1965, a schism developed between the peacock mods (also known as smooth mods), who were less violent and always wore the latest expensive clothes, and the hard mods (also known as gang mods), who were identified by their shorter hair and more working-class image. Also known as lemonheadspeanuts, these hard mods became commonly known as skinheads by about 1968.
Their shorter hair may have come about for practical reasons, since
long hair can be a liability in industrial jobs and a disadvantage in
streetfights. Skinheads may also have cut their hair short in defiance
of the more middle class hippie culture popular at the time.
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In addition to retaining many mod influences, early skinheads were very interested in Jamaican rude boy styles and culture, especially the music: ska, rocksteady, and early reggae (before the tempo slowed down and lyrics became focused on topics like black nationalism and the Rastafari movement). Skinhead culture became so popular by 1969 that even the rock band Slade temporarily adopted the look, as a marketing strategy. The subculture gained wider notice because of a series of violent and sexually explicit novels by Richard Allen, notably Skinhead and Skinhead Escapes. Due to largescale British migration to Perth, Western Australia, many British youths in that city joined skinhead/sharpies gangs in the 1960s and formed their own Australian style.
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By the 1970s, the skinhead subculture started to fade from popular
culture, and some of the original skins dropped into new categories,
such as the suedeheads (defined by the ability to manipulate one's hair with a comb), smoothies (often with shoulder-length hairstyles), and bootboys (with mod-length hair; associated with gangs and football hooliganism). brogues, loafers, suits, and the slacks-and-sweater look. Some fashion trends returned to mod roots, reintroducing brogues, loafers, suits, and the slacks-and-sweater look.
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In 1977, the skinhead subculture was revived to a notable extent after the introduction of punk rock.
Most of these revival skinheads were a reaction to the commercialism of
punk and adopted a sharp, smart look in line with the original look of
the 1969 skinheads and included Gary Hodges and Hoxton Tom McCourt (both later of the band the 4-Skins) and Suggs, later of the band Madness.
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From 1979 onwards, skinheads with even shorter hair and less
emphasis on traditional styles grew in numbers and grabbed media
attention, mostly as a result of their involvement with football hooliganism. These skinheads wore punk-influenced styles, like higher boots than before (14-20 eyelets) and tighter jeans (sometimes splattered with bleach).
However, there was still a group of skinheads who preferred the
original mod-inspired styles. Eventually different interpretations of
the skinhead subculture expanded beyond the UK and Europe. One major
example is that in the United States, certain segments of the hardcore punk scene embraced skinhead style and developed their own version of the subculture.
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In the early 1990s, skinhead subculture emerged in Russia.
According to the Russian Interior Ministry, as of 2003, as many as
20,000 young people might have belonged to various skinhead groups. Non-governmental experts say the figure may be twice that. Many of them have been prominently involved in anti-immigrant and ethnic violence
DaBangE...
31642013
Reader's Digest: SkinheadBill aint a racist punk. that's all there is to it.
DaBangE...
THEBIGWOOPits cause you said you cant be arsed.... i am guessing
DaBangE... THEBIGWOOPlol
Menace211
I think racial pride is fine. Im proud of what I am, If your not, you have issues. But to force your beliefs on people and/or cause harm to someone because of their race is BS. We have have differences and simularities. I dont think any one race is better than the other personally
mattruc...
wel put bro
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