" there is a genuine link between skinheads and violence—including neo-Nazism" True, but skinheads started as movement heavily influenced by Jamaicans and Jama

" there is a genuine link between skinheads and violence—including neo-Nazism" True, but skinheads started as movement heavily influenced by Jamaicans and Jamaican music. The Nazi thing came later, but there have always been non-Nazi skinhead subgroups, like SHARPS (Skinheads against racial prejudice). A girlfriend of mine in college in the 90s was a Jewish skinhead at the time. Wikipedia: In the earlier stages of the movement, a considerable overlap existed between early skinhead subculture, mod subculture, and the rude boy subculture found among Jamaican British and Jamaican immigrant youth, as these three groups interacted and fraternized with each other within the same working class and poor neighbourhoods in Britain.[2] As skinheads adopted elements of mod subculture and Jamaican British and Jamaican immigrant rude boy subculture, both first and second generation skins were influenced by the heavy, repetitive rhythms of dub and ska, as well as rocksteady, reggae, bluebeat, and African-American soul music.[2][3][4]