And as a matter of fact, Alan- are you suggesting that the fact that the teddy boys were culturally impoverished is an excuse for their attacks on Afro-Caribbean immigrants? I may be misunderstanding your post, but you seem to be overlooking the fact that they were violently attacking people of a different racial group. Are you suggesting that Lord Invader shouldn't have been angry about this? "Attacking innocent people.. with a razor in their hand." You posted: "The kids that became teddy boys often came from culturally impoverished backgrounds. Post war England was no bed of roses." Yes, that was true. I'm sorry if I misunderstood your post.

BUT- if I were in Lord Invader's place, if I was a calypsonian from Trinidad who had immigrated to England looking for performance opportunities and had heard about these young, white kids attacking Black West Indians, I would be very angry and afraid that I would be next.