I AM disgusted and indeed mystified as to why your 'cartoon' in the July/August issue portrays a biker as a stereotype nazi thug. While there are undoubtedly racist bikers, there are no more, proportionately, than in any other section of society.
If anything, , bikers are less prone to racism, and more often victims of discrimination rather than perpetrators.
Some bikers do still wear nazi regalia, but this is almost invariably purely for the shock effect, or, increasingly, simply because the wearers have seen the same gear worn in old photographs dating from the sixties and seventies.
It is this era that wearers are identiting with and trying to recreate, not the third reich.
have been a biker since the age I was sacked from my last job Page 14 10 Oct. 1992 No. 29 for organising a trade union. At the industrial tribunal, the bosses attempted to procure photographs of me in my molorcycle realers to demonstrate that I was not fit to work for their posh company.
This despite the fact that I changed into a suit on arrival every morning no woe my Bacon The Motorcycle Action Group prohibits the sale or promotion of racist merchandise at its functions. Moves are afoot to deny membership to those actively involved in promoting racist or fascist activities.
In future, send your stereotyped junk copy to the Tory shit-sheets of Fleet Street, The Sun and Daily Mail, where it belongs. Don't print it in a publication which calls itself socialist.
Neil F. Liversidge National Chairman, Motorcycle Action Group West Yorks
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