Skinhead Truce Holds
For years, the racist skinhead coalition Hammerskin Nation was in a 鈥渂lood feud鈥� with a Midwestern skinhead outfit known as the Vinlanders Social Club.
For years, the racist skinhead coalition Hammerskin Nation was in a 鈥渂lood feud鈥� with a Midwestern skinhead outfit known as the Vinlanders Social Club (VSC), which had the effrontery to challenge the Hammerskins鈥� once legendary dominance of the national skinhead scene. But there were more Internet threats and name-calling than actual physical confrontations, and in 2007 VSC co-founder Brien James announced that the two clubs had been in meetings and settled their differences.
This summer, the VSC held its first-ever white power concert, entitled 鈥淧lunder and Pillage,鈥� drawing more than 50 racist skins to Ohio from around the country. At a recent concert, the VSC鈥檚 James was drinking cheerfully with Richie Meyer, president of the Confederate Hammerskins, one of the regional groups that make up the Hammerskin Nation 鈥� proof that the truce has held up for four years now.聽
