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Also, a common price at Walmart is $14.88. I'm not joking, see it there all the time.
My years as an anti racist skinhead, we would see 88 hats or shirts, which was a cue for us. Initially red laces (1990) or white was a sign. That changed, then it was the 88 shirts. Obviously certain band shirts were a giveaway. But, nazi skins would usually give away their "team" pretty easily, because they're stupid. Our "crew" (second worst term ever, next to "scene") were extremely multi cultural, so it was easy to get some nazi to say something stupid and out themselves.
What’s the red laces significance? I remember those and yellow had some meaning, but I forget what it was
Weird, I always thought red laces or suspenders denoted socialist skins. But then again I don’t really know much about skinheads, or all the things Nazi douchebags have stolen over the years.
Back in those times (1990,,1991), here at least, red was nazi, white was "white power". Some places, yellow meant "anti racist", and meant something else, elsewhere. Around 1991, or 92, the lace thing was phased out around
here at least (I'm betting it resurfaced a few times since), and most of my african-american skin buddies were wearing red and/or white "because it looked cool" and/or "I don't care what some nazi thinks". I wore oxblood docs with electric blue laces, because it looked cool. Jokingly I would yell "Smurf power!" though.
I do think the red (late 90's?) was used more by the socialist/ communist skins. Back when I got into this (started knowing skins in 87, became one in 90), there was basically 2 teams (there were some non-political skins also, but that "fence walking" kind of got them lumped in with the Nazis, because they didn't dislike the Nazi stuff). By the time I retired from that stuff (1997 or 98), there were so many different groups that I met, I didn't even know what was going on.
I think I mentioned this on here before, but I lost interest because there was a lot of hypocrisy with these guys. There'd be some 25 year old man, with a 15 year old girlfriend and "nah its cool, he's OG man". And we started having actual criminals to our crew just because they were good at fighting. (Guys that would rob people, break into houses and so forth). And sooo much backstabbing within the "scene" (worst fucking word EVER). And I didn't fully have the pack mentality I guess (I'd get shit for showing up at shows in Adidas track pants instead of the gear: Docs, Fred Perrys, flight jacket etc. and I'd be like "what? I'm comfortable"). Also, it cut into skating time for sure. Long story short, I liked the Cro-Mags, Agnostic Front and met some anti-racist guys that also liked those bands, which led me into that whole thing. So first couple years were alright, then each year, I'd open my eyes to a little more shit that I thought was lame. No idea what that stuff is like now. I've only seen a few at shows and they were guys from my era.
I will also say, I've got a scar near my right eye where a Nazi jabbed me in the face with a broken bottle, a scar on my head from getting hit with a pipe, a bunch of scars on my chin from various whatever, and I'm missing a knuckle on my right hand (broke and pushed down into my hand) from that time. And I still hate Nazis.
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