A group of Sharps had bundled Darius away. “Because he’s a racist. The Sharps were having a party. Their uniform consisted of black combat boots, white trousers, and the white tank tops known as “wife beaters.” Their formation was a sort of flying wedge, which knocked people aside with swift, efficient violence as they swept toward the middle of the pit. There is no formal organization—just an antiracist ideology, a street-fighting tradition, and a few widely recognized logos, usually worn on jacket patches. “It was the first real rave I went to. It’s a melting pot. I thought of Debbie Turner’s inability to comprehend Mindy’s enthusiasm for the likes of Charles Manson and Adolf Hitler. His eyes are a warm, chocolate brown. But it’s never going to happen.” He shrugged. Jaxon’s gang status was actually ambiguous. Peckerwood.”, The Peckerwoods are a white gang, known mainly for mindless violence and methamphetamine dealing. Darius may have choked Ronda. But Tim says I already have one. Jeff’s friends drove him to the hospital. For example, a few weeks after her seventeenth birthday, she had had an abortion. Members came and Then he thought he might join the Navy. That was the knife he had used to stab Jeff. The Antelope Valley had been considered too remote for commuters, but the completion of the Antelope Valley Freeway, snaking over the San Gabriel Mountains, helped change that. Film companies used to come to the Antelope Valley, in northern Los Angeles County, to shoot high-desert scenes. But the majority of them are just welfare-mooching scumballs. "Secret Police" (again on Raw) was a loping One of his favorite songs is on there. Jaxon didn’t reply. “The N.L.R.s will never forgive me for saying Darius was fine,” Mindy said suddenly. UP032; CD). So how could I be a Nazi?”, But the N.L.R.s did not take apostasy lightly. I won’t even take acid if the sun’s out.”, Mindy loved LSD. The leading illegal drug in the Valley, methamphetamine is a powerful addictive stimulant whose longtime consumers tend to suffer from paranoia, depression,hallucinations, and violent rages. It was a Free Unity world, I thought. on punk attack. "Music Machine" appeared in "Sounds" on 24th December 1977. The picture was obviously taken in prison. “We gotta get more aggressive now,” he told me. girls (“They called us Property of the N.L.R.s, not members. Because she lacked that reassurance, her beloved hatred seemed to be a main prop of her self-respect. And, for the record, many of Hitler’s élite troops were in fact tweakers. The Unwanted Wife(2) By: Natasha Anders ... She watched as he stretched, his black T-shirt lifting to reveal the toned and tanned band of flesh at his abdomen. It makes him look like a bull,” Mindy said.) She and the other N.L.R. We can’t go out and get drunk, like we used to. It seemed to be all boots and fists. When I was in junior high, the state’s public schools enjoyed the seventh-highest per-pupil spending in the country; by 1995, California’s per-pupil spending ranked forty-seventh nationally. In a Los Angeles suburb where schools and parents faltered, the American Dream was replaced by drugs, neo-Nazism, and despair. I needed a native guide, and I found one in Mindy Turner, who, at seventeen, was already well embarked on the kind of casually terrifying existence I was starting to regard as common. Beverley Louw’s attempt at Lancaster High to replace the baroque array of “fragmented subcultures” that students tend to join with an old-fashioned, school-based culture was the exception. And yet no adult, I discovered, could shed any real light on it. All the ground-floor apartments had sliding glass doors without curtains. “I wanted to get Tim away from the gangs in Montclair,” she said. There are American communities that have begun to reckon with this imperative, but they are a small minority and the Antelope Valley is decidedly not among them. Jaxon was right: his mother didn’t agree with him. The boys went inside. In the words of one well-educated black mother of three, “That’s when the white-supremacist thing seems to kick in.”, I did meet white kids in the Antelope Valley who were college-bound. Her father, she said, had been a big John Lennon fan. ‘Wake the fuck up!’ But he died before we got there.”, We stood and watched the traffic pass. Finally, she became so dehydrated that she had to be hospitalized. “That was so great,” she said. She also had a ring through her navel, above which she had her name tattooed in longhand. Just like us.’ ”, Kicking around teen-age Lancaster, I sometimes felt as if I had fallen in with a thousand little cultural commissars, young suburban ideologues whose darkest pronouncement on another kid—a kid deviating from, say, the hard-core-punk-anarchist line on some band or arcane point of dress—was, inevitably, “He’s confused.”, Mindy’s own “beliefs,” as she called them, were eclectic. In any event, his association with the N.L.R.s extended no automatic protection to Mindy. Meanwhile, University of California tuition in 1995 was, in constant dollars, nearly five times what it was thirty years before. The police were watching them, he said, expecting them to retaliate against the Sharps. But Jaxon’s sympathies were decidedly with the racist side of the skinhead schism. I don’t want to hear your sob story about how my great-great-grandfather owned your great-great-grandfather.” Jaxon’s sneer deepened until it severely distorted his face. SaunaBar 11677 San Vicente Blvd. He just wouldn’t claim skinhead. This feature is common in European systems. No boneheads had come. In 1992, for the fiery climax of “Lethal Weapon 3,” Warner Bros. used a development called the Legends, at Avenue J and Thirtieth Street West, in the city of Lancaster. He was nineteen, hairless, blue-eyed, pale-skinned, with a worried seriousness that was occasionally interrupted by a big, goofy smile. You’ve taken somebody’s life, and they’re never coming back on this earth. What was more, the air was cleaner and the streets were safer. So they form these groups, and, right or wrong, those are their families.”. When I graduated from high school, in 1970, California had what was often described as the finest public-university system in the world. Pressed - 1 Copy Only Known To Exist, Withdrawal / 1984 / Bleak Outlook / Secret Police / These Boots Are Made For “Even white powers are people, so you have to respect them,” he said. He says I’m a ‘gang-hopper.’ ”. But Mindy stopped going to school while she was in the tenth grade. I noticed, not for the first time, a clacking coming from inside Mindy’s mouth. Both wore baseball caps, and both had goatees. Boarded-up shopping centers and bankrupt school districts followed, along with a wave of personal financial disasters so severe that USA Today dubbed Palmdale “the foreclosure capital of California.”, And yet the Antelope Valley’s population has continued to grow. Indeed, it has been called “the last great breeding ground of Southern California.”. Thus, if a Japanese or a Chinese skinhead decided to beat up a foreigner, it was O.K. Among the many kids who were usually around the Malones’ house were some who could not have been more than ten. Tim’s father had been a Hell’s Angel, he said, so, he told me, his Nazism “was kind of inherited.” His dad drank, did speed, and abused his mother—that was why his parents broke up. “White supremacism just comes from seeing what’s happening in society,” he said. The original Nazis did no drugs, didn’t smoke pot, drink beer—anything. Darius looked much the same—a little warier, less abashed, slightly exhilarated. “But I know what he would have said: ‘Get that nigger!’ ”. (“I hate it. He never got caught for anything. There’s no one to teach them how to care, how to love, how to live. He talks for himself. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast. I had never seen the guy before, but I now had no doubt that he was a neo-Nazi. “Jaxon can’t stand it that I go to raves,” she said. I asked Mindy if she might be hoping to become a Sharp herself. I used to drive Mindy over there, and the Malone kids and some of the others used to come over here. Then, in 1990, the Southern California economy, staggered by cutbacks in the aerospace and defense industries, fell into a deep recession. He was holding one eye—pawing at it frantically—and zigzagging blindly through the crowd. While she detoxed, with her mother keeping her skinhead friends away, Mindy seemed to snap out of her gang-girl trance. Some of Darius’s relatives were also on the move before daybreak. They’re big in the Antelope Valley but, some say, they’re bigger in the San Fernando Valley, or S.F.V. He is best known for his role in the 2013 faith-based baseball film "Seasons of Miracles", in which he portrays a baseball player. She and a friend had gone to see “Malcolm X.” They found they were the only whites in the audience, and a black guy had asked them sarcastically if they were in the right theatre. 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