Oi Punk Song About How the KKK Should be Dealt With

Skinheads and Oi music have a reputation for racism and extreme right-wing politics and violence. But not all of them, by any means. I read somewhere, probably on the Net, that Skinhead fashion originally started with the Jamaicans and then was taken over by White working class youth. There’s an anti-racist skinhead organisation. A friend of mine met one of their members years ago at a protest he was on, and there’s a documentary on YouTube about the skinhead organisation that was set up specifically to put a well-aimed Dr. Marten’s boot into the Nazis and other White supremacists.

I found this musical expression of skinhead hate and contempt for them on YouTube. It’s from a band, Oi of the Tiger, and it’s entitled Hang the Klan. It’s loud, aggressive and you can’t hear everything that’s being sung, but the chorus is very clear: ‘Hang the Klan’. There’s footage of the Klan at their wretched cross-burnings and marches, but it ends with the simulated hanging of one of them from a tree. I don’t know anything about this band, but there might be some links to the LGBTQ movement, as a cartoon at the beginning of the video of one of the Klansmen dangling from a tree has the legend ‘F*gs and D*kes Against White Knights (the Klan)”. As Reform goose step around in the polls and Trump is unleashing his ICE goons to arrest anyone who looks at them funny, I thought this might be a suitable song to put up.