This is an open ended letter to all parents that give their toddlers and elementary school children mohawks: CUT THE SHIT OUT. You are slowly turning the mohawk into another novelty, just like the billion Che Guevara shirts that float around Middle-Class American's closets who don't know who the fuck he is or what the fuck he did.
Whats happening here is you are taking something that means a lot to people and that is sacred and butchering it up, turning it into another fad that's just gonna get thrown out and looked down on in 2-3 years. The argument here is not that children can't be "punk rock"....I personally believe that the mohawk isn't genre specific: its a social statement that transcends rock and hip-hop. When people USED to get mohawks, they didn't shave hair off their heads....it was like shaving off fleece, and letting the world know that you aren't another fucking sheep in society's flock. But what does an 8-year-old child know about a crooked society, and what does he/she have to throw up his/her middle finger against?
Bed times? Getting grounded for bad grades? Not being able to climb up the slide at recess? Eating vegetables?
This reminds me of the time when I saw some kids in downtown Santa Cruz with X's over their hands and a bandana across their neck while smoking a cigarette.
I have never had a mohawk and (to be brutally honest) can't relate, but I still have respect for the scene and the people, and feel that this is something that needs to be preserved. Oh, and I apologize if you or your little brother are sheep, too, and have mohawks for no reason...didn't mean to come off as an asshole. Don't start a war with me, go listen to Refused's "The Shape Of Punk To Come" and lets get coffee sometime. Or we can hit the bars...I dont have X's on my hands...
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