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To the Editor:
["480.15"]Dominick Bruno Jr., whom you contour in an April 4 account article, absolutely deserves lauds for his assignment in advertisement on neo-Nazis and their cohorts in New Jersey. However, Mr. Bruno does not and never did deserve the name "skinhead."
The majority of skinheads are not racists. The baldheaded movement itself was started in the mid-1960's by banal youths in England. Instead of opting for the flamboyant, fancy-dress abstention of the Mod and Teddy Boy adolescence cults afore them, the skinheads accepted banal fashion: circumscribed hair, meant-to-last shoes and boots, white T-shirts and exhausted Levis.
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They additionally adopted from their banal West Indian neighbors, adopting trilby hats and crombie jackets, peg-legged striped apparel and adulation for ska, the Jamaican music that alloyed Latin beats and American applesauce melodies and was the advertiser of avant-garde reggae. The aboriginal skinheads admired to ball to these ska beats, generally frequented all-black nightclubs and had, by the end of the decade, several Jamaican "skinhead reggae" annal and bands they absolutely supported.
Racism appeared on the arena in the 1970's because of the poor bread-and-butter altitude in England. Abounding neo-Nazi groups began recruiting the skinheads, best of whom were in low-paying jobs or on the dole. Playing on the acceptable nationalistic account of the alive class, the absolutist groups did their best to about-face the skinheads adjoin their immigrant neighbors. Unfortunately, abounding abashed souls larboard the baldheaded movement and abutting the National Front and added neo-Nazi groups in England.
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The baldheaded movement never ended, although for a time in the 70's it was about nonexistent. This was mainly due to the bad rap skinheads accustomed for their perceived agitated ways. The abandon generally arose back accurate skinheads were threatened by the racist groups. There was a huge baldheaded awakening in the backward 1970's and aboriginal 1980's with the appearance of jailbait bedrock and oi, as able-bodied as with the Two Tone ska revival.
It was this additional beachcomber of skinheads that saw the alpha of Skinheads Adjoin Racial Prejudice, or Sharp, which has capacity in every accompaniment in the United States as able-bodied as in about all Western European countries. It is committed to advancement the traditions of the baldheaded movement, as able-bodied as aggressive racism.
["679"]Real skinheads are not the neo-Nazi fools one so generally hears, sees and reads about in the media. Abounding skinheads, abnormally in New York City, are of Asian or African-American descent. They accept to be skinheads because they accept in the ethics of the alive class, they accept all contest should appear calm and they like to canal to the ska beat.
I ask that you amuse accredit to neo-Nazi skinheads as fascists or racists or aloof apparent apprenticed slobs, but not as skinheads alone. They are not accurate skinheads, for they do not affix to the roots. JENNIFER ABBOTS New York, April 8, 1994
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