This is a fashion-cum-lifestyle which has curiously become associated with
"White Power". Like almost every other aspect of "White Power",
this movement originated in the Black community, amongst light-skinned Black
People whose "kinky" hair indicated their African Ancestry. Such
people who wished to pass for white could only elude such identification
bt keeping their hair closely cropped. This was often accompanied by a vigorous
assertion of a White identity, and so spread amongst into the broader white
community, particularly amongst White working class youth.
There seems to be no evidence to support the contention of the Mullahs of
the Islamic republic of Iran who suggested, as if 6 were 9, that Skinheads
were simply Hippies who had cut of all their
hair. As it turns out the complementarity between Hippies
and Skinheads is mediated by race, but not
exhaustively. Both remain unstable sub-cultures which can never attain true
autonomy.
Skinheads have been known to touch the ground
with their forehead in the presence of the British
Queen.
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