Most of the people I know draw the line at early RAC or mostly french
stuff (which basically influenced all Oi! aroudn anyway)... none of it
is blatantly racist...
Boneheads listen to bad metal anyway...
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> Sorry, I rarely post, but I had to jump in on the Skrewdriver conversation.
> I have an appreciation for Skrewdriver even though I consider myself an
> extreme antiracist, and I am proud of my Puerto Rican heritage. They were
> actually a really good band (though I am sure Ian Stuart is burning in hell
> at this very moment) and there first few albums had no racist lyrics on them.
> "Hail the New Dawn" and the other racist stuff gets a bit crazy and I listen
> to it at times with humor more than anything else.
> My room mate was an anti-racist traditional skinhead for 9 years and he was a
> big Skrewdriver fan. Every weekend after he would go out to the suburbs with
> his bald buddies and fight Nazis they would come back home, drink beer and
> listen to Skrewdriver. He always said that though he hates racism he loved
> skinhead, and no matter what you believe you have to recognize that Nazism is
> a big part of skinhead history, and a part of its culture. He was a skinhead
> to be a skinhead and hated Sharps and Nazis alike, but he listened to racist
> and sharp music because it was a part of being a skinhead. Does that make
> sense?
> Anyway, not everyone who listens to Skrewdriver can be called a racist just
> like not everyone who listens to gangsta rap can be called a gangsta. I
> guess thats my point. Sorry I talk too much.
> -Guardo Peace out
> P.S. Everyone heard that post mortem 60 ft Dolls? It is incredible!!!!
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