Once, many years ago, I was a lost kid who willingly got sucked into the white power skinhead scene. The influence of Skrewdriver and other white power bands cannot be overstated. They were a critical piece in the indoctrination of skins. White power music was an anthem to violence, a rock’n roll brainwashing with a beat and catchy hooks.
I did say violence, yes? I can’t testify to how much violence was begotten by this music. I myself was never much of a fighter, as such, I was often the beat up remains of that violence. As a skin I never kicked ass, but had the shit beat out of me from all sides.
In the end, I just grew past the petty fear based beliefs of racism. The brave aryan warrior was a lie. Everywhere I looked I saw nothing close to the illusory aryan template. Unemployed, drunk abusers of women, that was what I saw.
If you are in the movement, maybe you should move on? There is darkness in the hearts of all men, and racism does not feed the better angels of our natures. It feed off of and feeds the darkness in our hearts. There is no such thing as race. Our differences do not add up to anything close to a separate species.
“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our minds.”
Bob Marley
