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Date Posted: 13:36:41 03/02/05 Wed
Author: Dell
Subject: Re: Two tone Britain
In reply to: H 's message, "Two tone Britain" on 19:59:01 12/04/04 Sat

Fair enough,H,but the programme was too one sided for me. All it done was air the views of then middle class asian students,who are now journalists,ranting on about how racism was rife in those days, and how they got on in college whilst listening to 2 Tone.

Where were the old skinheads,the army of 2 Tone ? Why where they not interviewed about 2 Tone,and how most of them were labelled "nazi's" because of their skinhead fashions,by people who knew jackshit about ska or the 2 Tone movement in general ?

It's fine having an open debate on a show about 2 Tone, and the politics that went with it,but hear it from all sides,and not just the middle class left wing journalists, who probably joined the Duran Duran fan club in 1981 and soon forgot about 2 Tone, and left it for dead as soon as they could sing 'Planet Earth' at university !

Where were the former skinheads from that era ? Ooops I forgot.There was one.Suggs !!

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