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Most people will associate skinheads with white
racists having more hair than brains. The bomber
jacks, army boots: they're a too familiar sight in
Europe and elsewhere.
Not too many people know, that the very word
"skinhead" was used in Jamaica years
before white racists would adopt a name of which
they themselves do not even know the roots of. A
1960's track by Desmond Dekker called "Hippopotamus"
makes a mention of them...
There's a similar thing going on with the word
SKA. Reggae lovers will know, that the word refers
to one of the predecessors of Reggae Music. Ska is
Jamaican Music from the 1960's.
Ska is also music from the 1980's, centered
around a label called TWO TONE. The name of the
label was soon to become the name of a Movement,
wherein a large part consisted out of anti-racist
Skinheads who, you could say, knew their
Roots.
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