S.H.A.R.P (Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice)

I was at the Hammersmith Apollo on Friday for The Specials 30th anniversary Tour. The gigs had sold out months ago, but thanks to a friend of a friend of a friend, let’s call her blow out Tracy due to her uncannily regular ability to drop out at the last minute, I got the golden ticket. Her loss was definitely my gain.

Every musical artist or group has a tribal audience and this was no different. The make up of the audience was largely male, white and over 40 wearing either two-tone or skinhead gear, which may sound like a recipe for trouble, but everyone was very friendly and on good form. As we entered the stalls, I noticed two women dressed like they were going to a hen night. I wondered if they knew what they were letting themselves in for.

We waited an hour before The Specials arrived on stage. The atmosphere was building and you could feel the Testosterone. This was not going to be a James Blunt Soiree. As the lights went down and the cheer went up, the first of many plastic pint glasses with beer was thrown into the audience. When (Dawning of a) New Era started, everyone went nuts and we found ourselves flung around from left to right in a sea of big men. Hit after wonderful hit was played with the economy Prog rockers could only dream of. Do The Dog, Rat Race, Man At C&A, Do Nothing, Blank Expression, Nite Klub, Stereotype and so many more were lapped up by a frenzied audience. Between each song you’d hear the chanting of Rude Boy, Rude Boy, Rude Boy. I’d try and catch bits of video with my crappy camera phone in the quieter moments before the nutty crowd started slamming into each other again. It was over way too soon. They returned for two encores, Ghost Town and You’re Wondering now.

We left the venue sweating like pigs in blankets but were elated because the gig was so good. We went our separate ways and it was only when I made the final leg of my journey home on the DLR that I noticed the stink from the beer shower. The other passengers noticed too as they cleared space for me… in a crowded train!

Beer showers? Being slammed by sweaty blokes? Dancing to great music? Top night.

Ipswich Skinheads circa 1981/2, originally uploaded by © AK Foto.

Skinheads continue to fascinate me, both visually and as a culture. Elements of skinhead style are instantly recognizable and mark a person as having a particular worldview. It is almost like a code; it embodies the very definition of counterculture dressing.

Tim Roth in 'Made in Britain' (Alan Clarke, 1982)

The name of my blog is taken from the raw and brilliant film Made in Britain, directed by Alan Clarke and starring a 21-year-old Tim Roth in his first major film role. Written by David Leland, the film indicts the social welfare system and the larger Thatcher regime in England, as well as exploring the young male psyche. As the skinhead Trevor, Roth assaults both his co-stars and the audience with his racism, apathy and excessive violence. Eric Richard, best known for his role as Bob Cryer on ‘The Bill’ and also his lead in Mike Leigh’s television film Home Sweet Home, provides strong support. Interestingly, this was the first time that Alan Clarke employed Steadicam to ’shoot the characters in long, continuous takes to give the impression of ceaseless motion and neurotic energy’, a technique he would use stylistically in his later work (Murphy, 2006).
Tim Roth gives an incredibly strong performance in a film that encapsulates so much of the rage and confusion of the time, AT the time of its production.

Filmography: Made in Britain dir. Alan Clarke (1982)

Bibliography: Murphy, Robert, Directors in British and Irish Cinema (London: British Film Institute, 2006)

The Neocon Republican Terrorist vision of a divided and segregated America, where everybody that is not a white Anglo-saxon Christian is considered cannon fodder and trash, is coming to fruition. It is reminiscent of the reaction to the new population of freed slaves that the white former slave masters had after they were soundly defeated in the Civil War by the Union army.

This is the period in our history called Reconstruction where,for a decade after the Civil War,blacks gained political power, and some attained financial wealth as well.

During Reconstruction, southern whites turned violent when they saw blacks making major gains.

 Reconstruction was followed in the South by domination by the Democratic Party and the enactment of Jim Crow laws, grandfather clauses and similar measures. The bitterness and repercussions from the heated conflicts of the era lasted well into the twentieth century.

Read more about the Reconstruction era here… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction_era_of_the_United_States 

Southern state governments quickly enacted the restrictive “black codes“. However, they were abolished in 1866 and seldom had effect, because the Freedman’s Bureau (not the local courts) handled the legal affairs of freedmen.

The Black Codes indicated the plans of the southern whites for the former slaves.^[24] The freedmen would have more rights than did free blacks before the war, but they still had only a limited set of second-class civil rights, no voting rights, and, since they were not citizens, they could not own firearms, serve on a jury in a lawsuit involving whites or move about without employment.^[25] The Black Codes would limit blacks’ ability to control their own employment. The Black Codes outraged northern opinion. They were overthrown by the Civil Rights Act of 1866 that gave the Freedmen full legal equality (except for the right to vote).^[26

 There were many reported murders of blacks in the south during reconstruction, but many killings of blacks went unreported, and by all accounts, millions upon millions of African-Americans were killed by the hands of bitter southerners, as reported in this account taken from Wikipedia by a soldier visiting from the North...

The number of murders and assaults perpetrated upon Negroes is very great; we can form only an approximate estimate of what is going on in those parts of the South which are not closely garrisoned, and from which no regular reports are received, by what occurs under the very eyes of our military authorities. As to my personal experience, I will only mention that during my two days sojourn at Atlanta, one Negro was stabbed with fatal effect on the street, and three were poisoned, one of whom died.

In todays modern post-racial world, we have organizations and groups that have a mission to keep track of, and to investigate the existence of, the number of racially motivated,or bias motivated crimes against minorities,religious groups, gay Americans.

Currently, America is going through another Reconstruction like era,as we are experiencing the racial backlash of hatred based on the election of our first black president,Barack Obama.

The election of Barack has caused a rise in all forms of hate crimes, as well as the emergence of the Ku Klux Klan as a force to stoke the flames of hatred and encouraging physical action of violence against blacks, Gays, and all other religious groups that are not Christian.

What is most distressing is that the tide of racial violence is being egged on and financed by the foreigner Rupert Murdoch, and the entire Republican party,that at one time represented the opposite of what they believe in now.

For a group that, centuries ago, used to be the main supporter of civil rights, they currently are the main driving force behind this increasing tide of racism and bigotry that is the rage in most of the states in America.

The racist are moving from the south, and invading the once liberal California, in order to spread their southern tradition of hatred and illiteracy. Hate crimes based on sexual orientation shot up 21 percent in Los Angeles County last year, while religious crimes increased 14 percent, because the southern bigots have moved in.

The Daily News in Los Angeles reports that...in 2008  in the Valley,James Shamp, an African-American man who worked as a janitor at a bowling alley in Canoga Park, was shot to death as he was throwing out trash. According to the report, three members of the Canoga Park Alabama gang, which has a long history of violent anti-black crimes, were arrested and charged with murder and hate crime enhancements.

The San Fernando Valley had the most amount of hate crimes in the Los Angeles area.

"Whenever I look at a map of hate crimes, I find there is a great diversity of hate crimes that occur in the San Fernando Valley," said Robin Toma, executive director of the commission. "You have anti-Semitic hate crimes, homophobic hate crimes and racially motivated hate crimes. There is also the phenomena of racialized gang violence."

Sexual orientation hate crimes rose the most last year, with more than 80 percent targeting gay men and at least nine crimes traced to Proposition 8.

A report on a sexually motivated hate crime from the Daily News... A white lesbian couple walking hand-in-hand on the beach in Malibu. The mother of a white tourist family from Arkansas told them, "You are going to burn in hell!" and dumped her water bottle on one of them and punched one in the face...

Please keep that level of ignorance in Arkansas,...and my family is from Arkansas.

The election of the first black president and hot-button issues such as abortion and gay marriage contributed to the spikes, anti-bias groups say. Public figures like Sarah Palin and Glen Beck have done a lot to cause the current racial hatred that whites are visiting on all others.

The two of them have been quite effective when it come to rallying sympathy for groups like the KKK and the Nazis.

USA TODAY is reporting that the number of attacks on blacks increased 8% to 2,876, accounting for seven of every 10 race-motivated crimes.

"There is this kind of extremism going on," says Hilary Shelton, director of the NAACP Washington bureau. He says Obama's election and the recession led to a backlash against blacks as some people look for someone to blame for hard economic times. http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-11-23-hate-crimes_N.htm

I say to the world, this is a good look at the so-called ''Post-Racial'' America, a country where race relations and the unity of the races has been usurped by the in vogue traditional American practice of racial bias,hatred and division.

Our country has been going through this cycle for well over a Hundred and 8o years, and by the looks of things, that sad tradition will continue.

What do we do to end this....will we come together, or will we have to resort to our primal instinct, where only the strong survive.

I think that based on 200 years of data and statistics, the tradition of racism is alive, well, and thriving in the United States, and that we are guilty of the same atrocities against humanity...our own people, that we so blatantly accuse our so-called enemies of doing to their minority populations.

We are all truly hypocrites.

Read more on this story from these trusted sources…

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/23/hate-crime-on-rise-gay-re_n_368276.html

http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_13829526

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2009/11/20/LA-sees-hike-in-certain-hate-crimes/UPI-95381258737529/

photos via: skinbyrd.com

Where might another McVeigh—or worse—spring from?

The many fringe elements the Republican Party represents are angry they lost and getting more threatening and dangerous to society every day.  Right-wing tea-partiers, death panellers, birthers, skinheads, white supremacists, militia enthusiasts, paranoid fringe, and even average citizens who are encouraged by the rants of right-wing talk radio and Fox News are more than restless, they’re bordering on dangerous.

The Anti-Defamation League is tracking about 200 militias, up from 50 in 2002, according to Mark Pitcavage, the ADL’s director of fact finding. “The single greatest factor in the agitation is Obama, Pitcavage says, adding “I see so many parallels today with 1994.”

Billy Roper, the head of White Revolution, a fast-growing white-nationalist group, says, “For years, white Americans were just concerned with watching sports and drinking beer and being consumers,” Roper said. “They were like bad puppies. Obama is like the rolled up newspaper smacking their butt. And now they’re baring their teeth. We’re at the stage kind of like the original 13 colonies around 1760. We’re at that awkward stage of the revolution when it’s too late to work within the system and too early to shoot the bastards.”

Ammunition manufacturers can’t keep up with the demand, the exaggerations become more outrageous on a daily basis.

Read more here.

How bad do you think it is now?  Will it get worse?  How can it be controlled?

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Tout d’abord, t’inquiète pas, je suis vivant. Je ne dicte pas ce billet à l’aide de clignements de paupières.

Même si on va dire que j’aurais pu.

Message pour mes proches: je suis vivant et en bonne santé, mes bras et mes jambes sont toujours là, mon sens de l’humour aussi (désolé).

Ce soir, j’étais au concert des Ogres de Barback (je te raconterai, j’entame une semaine de concerts géniaux…), une fois terminé, je suis allé rejoindre des amis dans un bar rue St Denis (non pas la même que toi, parisien…). Quelques bières modérément consommées plus tard, je décide de prendre le bus pour rentrer chez moi. Inutile de te dire qu’il est tard et que les enfants sont couchés depuis un bout de temps.

Et bah figure toi que ce soir, j’ai fait une merveilleuse découverte. Il y a une espèce de grotte bar, qui s’appelle “Katacombes” sur le chemin du bus. J’avais jamais vu. Et j’aurais préféré pas voir en fait. Ce soir, il y avait comme un attroupement de clones de Tokyo Hotel en version pas content, chevelus et métallisés, hurlant à la mort comme si on leur avait piqué leur goûter à la récré, bière et autres à la main. Colliers et bracelets à pic, têtes d’Halloween de rigueur, fringues déchirées, yeux révulsés… On se serait cru dans Resident Evil. Moi, à ce moment là, je me demandais bien ce qui se passait.

Alors comme un con, je me suis approché. Tu me diras, j’avais pas le choix, j’étais obligé de passer par là pour prendre le bus. J’ai compris que quelque chose tournait pas rond quand 25 d’entre eux ont traversé la route en courant alors que le bonhomme était rouge – chose inconcevable en Québéquie, particulièrement dans ce quartier qui regorge de flics un peu tatillons sur le sujet-. Moi je traverse, en regardant le sol genre “j’existe pas et je veux pas vous piquer votre goûter“. Manque de bol ils ont décidé de traverser en même temps que moi. C’est simple, je me suis retrouvé au milieu d’une horde de cheveux gras déchainés qui courait vers je sais pas où. Ouai, visiblement ils étaient hyper énervés et tout ça mais pas moyen de savoir après qui ils en avaient.

J’ai quand même fini par arriver de l’autre côté de la route et là j’ai compris. Ils se foutaient sur la gueule avec une bande de skins un peu old-school, du genre 45 ans, uniformes en jean, rangers au mollets, rasés avec des têtes de pas contents non plus. Là je me suis dit qu’il fallait défintivement que je me casse parce que ça commençait à sentir le sapin. Re-manque de bol, je continuais d’avancer moi, et là je croise deux spécimen de vampires à la Twilight, genre pas contents et “pourquoi tu me regardes comme ça, tu veux me prendre mon gouter?”. La fraîcheur de leur état n’éyant d’égal que leur haleine, y’en a un des deux qui s’est cassé la gueule (le cocktail alcool-ecsta, ça doit paaaas être bien…). Alors là, occasion saisie, fuite en avant et rangeage derrière voiture de flic qui passait dans le coin. Voiture de flic opportune puisque derrière moi, ça commençait à sortir les chaines et les barres de fer.

Bref, faut que je trouve une alternative de trajet pour prendre le bus le vendredi soir, parce qu’il parait qu’il y a messe noire hebdomadaire.

Das ist unser Cleptomanicx-Katalog von 1995. Er ist sieben Schwarzweiss-Kopien stark und im praktischen Schnellhefter zusammengefügt, das ganze incl. 3 bis 5-Farb Stickerein zum Farbenraten… mausgrau, aschgrau, steingrau-sehr schön!

Nun ist Miguel über eine  Dokumentation zur Entstehung der rechten Skinheadszene und die darauf reagierende Antifa-Bewegung in Paris gestolpert. Teil dieses Films sind auch die Ducky Boys, ein Strassengang aus dem Süden von  Paris die Erfinder der “chasseurs de skins”(Skinhead-Jäger) sind. Für ihr Logo reduzierten sie ein von Nazis oft benutzes keltisches Kreuz, welches durch das Weglassen eines Striches ihre Initialien ergab. Es ähnelt nicht nur unserem frühen Logo, nein es sieht exakt so aus! Den Trailer zu der Doku könnt ihr euch hier reinpfeiffen.  Schön gesehen Miguel!

Die Ducky Boys waren übrigens ein Gang aus dem Film “The Wanderers” und ich bin bei meiner Recherche über mehrere Gruppen gestolpert bei denen dieser Name Verwendung findet, unter anderem über eine Gang aus Kornwestheim, einer kleinen Ortschaft vor den Toren Stuttgarts, die Thema einer kurzen Reportage sind. Zu schön um sie euch vorzuenthalten!

As posted originally on Slackbastard.org.  I strongly suggest following the links and even checked out some of the other stuff on his site to understand these people.

White supremacist group operating in Adelaide…

• …and Brisbane, and Melbourne, and Sydney, and Perth…[video deleted, see original post for content]

  Above : Australian band ‘Open Season’ play a right ‘orrible song called ‘Australian National Socialist’. Open Season played Melbourne on September 12; the band is scheduled to play next year on the Gold Coast (a few days before Adolf Hitler’s birthday), along with Melbourne band ‘Ravenous’ and, apparently, a foreign group of neo-Nazi string-pluckers, tub-thumpers and warblers. Oh yeah: some of Open Season’s other song titles include ‘Kill the Poofs’ and ‘Nigger Hunt’, which suggests — and I admit that I could be wrong — that the boys may harbour some degree of hostility towards homosexuals and blacks…

White supremacist group operating in Adelaide
Sam Rodrigues
The Advertiser
November 3, 2009

AS racial tensions in Adelaide escalate, a white supremacist group is planning family fun days and using music to lure young people to its cause.

[See : Adelaide : City of Churches (And White Power), October 13, 2009.]

The South Australian chapter of “white racialist” group Blood and Honour Australia will hold a Christmas barbecue for like-minded people this month, in a “family-friendly environment”.

The group is promoting the event as its “white Xmas”.

The like-minded apparently excludes Asians, Africans, Indians, Jews, Arabs and other racial groups, as well as those with partners from these groups.

The national group, linked to international chapters, promotes music as the “powerful medium” of white resistance.

“We hold regular gigs around Australia for all those interested to attend and subsequently help a strong resistance grow,” its website said. “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.”

Social Inclusion Commissioner Monsignor David Cappo has highlighted racism as a growing issue.

YouTube clips linked to Blood and Honour Australia feature violent clashes and highlight anti-Australia protests overseas – apparently to justify vilifying ethnic groups.

“In these dark times it’s our children’s future that is paramount and ultimately that’s what we’re all working for,” the website said. The group also holds regular “community building functions”.

Forums on its website and others linked to it have drawn comment on the stabbing death of Sudanese father Akol “Alex” Akok, 25, at suburban Ottoway last month. A spokesman for acting state Multicultural Affairs Minister Paul Holloway said he was reluctant to comment and give publicity to any such group.

Police could not say if they were monitoring the group, or its website. The group did not respond to interview requests yesterday.

Blood and Honour South Australian Section did not respond to email requests from The Advertiser for comment yesterday.

Melbourne media reported this weekend on a meeting of the group attended by members from across the country, particularly Adelaide, describing it as “resembling a scene from Romper Stomper”.

Of course, anyone interested in finding out more about Blood & Honour Australia could do worse than examine their forum, hacked and uploaded onto Wikileaks in March. 76 members of the forum nominated Australia as their place of residence. See also : Nicole Hanley : For Blood & Honour, April 6, 2009.

Now I just gotta find out if there’s counter-demonstrations being organised in this fair city of mine.

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“Jag behandlas schysst”, säger f.d. skinnskallen* Erik Almqvist till Sydsvenskan idag. Han pratar om hur han upplever klimatet i fullmäktige, och tydligen är det rätt soft för en gammal skinnbula att byta ut bombarjackan mot en kavaj och sina dräng-fulla nazi-polare till sherry-sippande borgare. Vi vet sen innan att vissa vänsterpartister är hjon som inte har något emot att pola med en gammal skinhead och hetsa mot unga socialister, så nu fick vi det svart på vitt.

Om ni vill att skinnskalle-Erik ska behandlas oschysst kan ni se till så att en revolutionär från SP hamnar i fullmäktige nästa val. Betydligt bättre än en kappvändare som istället för att skrika på borgare och skinnbulor skriker på ungdomar som protesterar mot nedskärningar. SP-Lund levererar härmed följande valfläsk: Om ni väljer oss lovar vi att se till så att Sydsvenskan nästa mandatperiod kommer intervjua en fullmäktigeledamot om mobbingen han fått utstå.

Röda Lunds opinionsundersökning om SD är nu färdig. Den visar – föga överraskande – att SD är följande:

Onda 9%
Troll 23%
Idioter 49%
Hycklare 19%

* Vi vill härmed uppmärksamma att alla skinheads inte är nazister. Skinhead-kulturen härstammar från Jamaica, och brittisk arbetarklass-kultur, och hade från början inget med nazism att göra.

Ibland är det inte fråga om främslingsfientlighet, xenofobi eller rasism. Roten till det onda är i stället ett samhälle som förhindrar många människor från att uttrycka sig, dvs hindrar dem från att visa för sin omvärld vad de är duktiga på. När samhällssystemet förhindrar dem att utvecklas åt det håll deras anlag pekar mot, tar vissa av dessa människor till fula metoder för att hävda sig. Och de kan till och med vara omedvetna om detta. Rasisten är det obemärkta, förmenade och osynliggjorda barnet i vuxenupplaga. Xenofoben har lärts upp av sjukligt rädda och överbeskyddande föräldrar som hämmat sitt barns bestämmelse och lagt om kursen så att barnet aldrig kan nå sitt slutmål.

Hackordning är ett begrepp som är användbart i dessa sammanhang. Hur uselt man än tycker att man har lyckats i livet eller gör ifrån sig i skolan, finns alltid en svagare grupp att angripa för att minska sin bristande självkänsla för en stund. Man ger sig på dem som redan mobbas, man ger sig på flyktingar som nyligen slussats ut i samhället och som känner sig lite rädda. Dessa människor, som djupt inom sig känner sig oerhört misslyckade, tar dessutom till alkohol eller droger för att försöka lindra smärtan. Då blir det ännu värre.

En medelålders kvinna jag var bekant med hade bara en grundexamen från grundskolan. Hon hade inte lyckats med Komvux och aldrig haft en vanlig tillsvidareantällning. Hon levde på A-kassa och socialbidrag, och hon levde på sin man som hade en fast anställning. Hennes man hade ett förhållande med grannfrun, men det var hon tvungen att svälja för att kunna bli försörjd. Hon hade två bröder som var positivt inställda till andra människor, men själv hackade hon på alla som hon trodde var svagare än henne. Hon var i alla fall inte längst ned i hackordningen, och det fick henne att överleva. På bussen kunde hon ställa till med fruktansvärda scener om hon fick syn på någon som inte såg svensk ut.

Günter Wallraff, född 1942, är en mycket respekterad journalist. Hans arbetssätt, att använda falsk identitet för att genom deltagande observation, eller att på annat sätt undersöka samhällsförhållande genom mycket nära observation, under en längre period har uppkallats efter honom. Hans wallraffande har i regel resulterat i böcker. Han är mest känd för att ha uppträtt som turkisk gästarbetare i dåvarande Västtyskland, och därefter rapporterat om omfattande diskriminering samt illegalt insmugglade arbetare i boken Längst därnere från 1985.

Nu har han kommit med en ny rapport om rasismen i Tyskland. Denna gång har den nu 67-årige journalisten (åter)upptäckt att de värsta rasisterna finns i de lantliga provinserna och efterblivna städerna i forna Östtyskland. Det är välkänt att det blev en chock för många östtyskar när de vaknade upp efter ruset efter Berlinmurens fall och återföreningen med Västtyskland. De fann att de var efterblivna på väldigt många områden. Företagen i öst var föråldrade och slogs snabbt ut när den utsattes för konkurrensen från kapitalismen. Även högutbildade människor i öst – läkare, tandläkare, advokater – fann att deras utbildning vid kommunistiska universitet inte dög i det nya, enade Tyskland.

Människor från det forna Östtyskland kände sig givetvis underlägsna i det enade Tyskland. Och många av dem hävdar sig genom hackordningen. I deras ögon är invandrare och flyktingar längre ned på stegen. Det som uttrycks som rasism har sin grund i det upplevda egna misslyckandet. Samma sak har hänt med unga människor i hela Europa som inte får något jobb. Det är djupt tragiskt.

El grupo musical Red Hot Chilli Peppers fueron unos pioneros colaboradores con la mítica marca de ropa del mundo del skate Vision Street Wear.

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Street wear is a distinctive style of fashion not to be confused with hip hop fashion. Its roots are in skateboarding and the “skatewear” of the 1980s.^[1] It was later adopted as an urban fashion in Japan before growing to an international business.^[1] An important element to the style is vintage or vintage-style sneakers.^[2]

—Devon Griffith, Head of Design at Massive Revolution

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_wear

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Street fashion is a term used to describe fashion that is considered to have emerged not from studios, but from the grassroots. Street fashion is generally associated with youth culture, and is most often seen in major urban centres. Japanese street fashion sustains multiple simultaneous highly diverse fashion movements at any given time. Mainstream fashion often appropriates street fashion trends as influences. Most major youth subcultures have had an associated street fashion. Examples include:

• Hippies (denim, T-shirts, long hair, flower power and psychedelic imagery, flared trousers)
• Teddy Boys (drape jackets, drainpipe trousers, crepe shoes)
• Punk fashion (ripped clothing, safety pins, bondage, provocative T-shirt slogans)
• Skinheads (short-cropped hair, fitted jeans, Ben Sherman button-up shirts, Fred Perry polo shirts, Harrington jackets, Dr. Martens boots)
• Gothic fashion (black clothing, heavy coats, big boots, makeup).
• Hip hop fashion (501 Levis, ECKO, South Pole, Avirex, Sean Jean, NIKE)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_fashion

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La diversificación empresarial de las marcas de ropa urbana no tiene límites… El millonario diseñador Mark Ecko por ejemplo edito hace unos años un videojuego de graffiti junto a la prestuigiona compañía Atari.

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J’aime à me dire que le racisme, c’était mieux avant.

Avant que Michael Jackson ne devienne blanc et que Michael Jordan ne victimise les Croates, le seul référent de mes chers concitoyens de base en matière de négritude, c’était Arnold & Willy.

Un subtil mélange, quota oblige, entre Racine et Oliver Twist, misérabilisme et angélisme.

Outre le pitch improbable de cette fable égalitariste, cette ode à la tolérance, cette vente forcée du métissage, ce sont principalement les dégâts collatéraux engendrés par cette négrophilie soudaine – digne de l’engouement des badauds devant une animalerie à l’approche des fêtes de fin d’année – qui me ramène à cette ambiguïté quasi théologique envers Barack Obama.

La cour des miracles vote aveuglément pour une bête de foire, ce qui lui permet de croire sans essayer de comprendre.

Mais, enfant, ma hantise était plus simple : comment passer inaperçu sans être invisible ?

Inspirer une peur médiatique, en espérant qu’elle soit un jour cinématographique ou accepter toutes les amitiés même celles des fans de Francky Vincent, j’ai le culte entre deux chaise, il faut choisir ou plutôt capitaliser.

Les faits sont là. Dans les années 80, si tu étais noir en province, tu pouvais être Arnold Jackson, mais certainement pas toi même et tout cela en toute bonne foi.

J’aurais voulu courber l’échine, faire preuve d’intégration lorsque les amis du colonialisme sympa me dépossédaient de ma personnalité pour satisfaire leur bon plaisir cathodique. Mais j’aime trop botter des culs à la chaîne – et avec le sourire – pour ça !

Il n’y a rien de plus compliqué que d’admettre la nature presque repentante d’un acte de violence gratuite à la vue d’une sexagénaire boitillante venant vous assener un énième – comme si vous n’étiez pas là – il est bien mignon le petit noir, comme celui de la télévision !

La même vieille dame se vengeant dans les urnes prétextant un foyer d’insécurité galopante dans son écran. Moralité, il y a des euthanasies qui se perdent.

Voilà à quoi servaient les skinheads, faire tampon comme SOS Racisme, afin que j’assouvisse sereinement et en toute légitimité mes pulsions meurtrières prétendues contre un racisme qui s’assumait.

La bonne époque où l’on avait de vrais ennemis, où l’on ne s’en créait pas à coups d’hémoglobine pour un bout de quartier, en location qui plus est.

J’avais hâte sans le savoir qu’arrive enfin la mode des Rachid Taha, Faudel, Khaled et qu’enfin les divorcés atteintes d’une quarantaine bien passée, les working girls d’écoles de commerce jamais terminées et les filles de coiffeuses nées dans une boîte de nuit puissent se convertir en toute quiétude républicaine.

J’ai connu des gens qui ne voulaient plus être noirs, ici, je leurs rétorquais donc qu’ils pourraient être quelqu’un, plus tard, mais ailleurs.

Pour l’heure, j’étais coincé avec une armée de gens bien sous tout rapport moral, ne pensant jamais à mal, mais pensant tout de même et dont la compassion à mon égard n’avait d’égal que leur passion pour collectionner des bibelots.

J’aillais être à ma place sur une étagère poussiéreuse entre les boat people et un morceau du mur de Berlin. À bientôt Barack…

Another Crisis…

Well, as you know, life as overseas student can never be as easy as back in our motherland… This is because in order to study, we need to solve every challenge in our life in order to survive, from our daily routines to facing the external threats like hooligans, skinheads and etc… (Don’t think that we are so happy enjoying our life here ya)

A little story to share…

And this is what happened to us recently, our ATM cards, especially BSN, failed to withdraw money from the ATM machine. For the beginning we thought it was normal because it happened sometimes within a month due to some technical problems according to them from Malaysia, and this phenomenon happened for quite some months….

Until these two weeks, during the end of the month, the time we became broke, and the time we essentially need the money!!! We can’t withdraw money from the ATM machine, at 1^st we thought it was normal like what we experienced before, but after trying for 2 weeks, we decided to ask our parents to call up the bank and ask for the reasons why we can’t withdraw the money!

Guess what is the reply from the bank?

Due to the high fraud cases  recently, the bank decided to stop all the international transactions from now!!!For those who wish to activate the international transactions are required to reactivate the card from the bank!

Yea! Thanks for that great news. How can we who study overseas go back to Malaysia just to reactivate the card? Why didn’t they implement this while we were in Malaysia 2 months ago during summer holidays?

So, how to solve this issue? Yea, the bank asked us to fill in the form from the official website, and then resend back to them. How? I also don’t know, I’m still trying, anyone who already succeeded, please let me know ya.

I don’t know about condition for other bank, but I’m sure for those BSN ATM Card holders, you must fulfill the requirement above before you can withdraw the money…

For BSN users, you may try on this website: www.bsn.com.my, you can see there is a ‘Borang-borang Column’ on the main menu on the left side, click on it and you will see the form.

Un extracto de la presentación de Criminal Skin en el “1º festival hardcore oi!”, realizado en el bar Piraña Rock de Santiago de Chile.