From the article:
“A lot of bikers, you know, its freedom thing. A lot of bikers want to be free and voice their opinion and I like to cater to what they want. It doesn’t mean that I necessarily believe in everything but, you know, I like to please everybody,” said one vendor, Jenny Alonso.
Alonso said the history behind bikers and swastikas goes back to World War II when US soldiers would bring back Nazi memorabilia they won in the war to hang on their bikes.
“So, we’re kind of honoring that not necessarily that, you know, we believe in Nazis and Hitler, but it’s just kind of a special thing that the US military was able to go and win the war and bring things back as souvenirs and they would put them on their bike,” said Alonso.
Yeah cool please face the wall now. :fash-bash:
It was pretty funny how for about a decade everything biker related in media had to have a line somewhere to let the viewer know whether the biker is a nazi or not before they seemed to give up on the whole thing. The Easy Rider image got killed off completely.