Race Rock  Local bands get together to help victims of racially
motivated violence  There is some strange connection between
racial violence and head butts. The classic skinhead book, Among
the Thugs, is full of them. Not that all skinheads are racist,
of course, but the shorn-skulled and their racist ilk seem to
have the thick crania needed to deliver the blow.  At least,
that seems to be the case for the killer of St. Louis native
Nick Holmes. A student at the University of Dayton, Holmes was
visiting friends at the University of Kentucky when, on January
18, 2002, he and his biracial roommate got into an altercation
with Aaron Roth. According to the Lexington Herald, a member of
a group Roth was with used a racial slur against Holmes'
roommate before the argument became violent, ending with Holmes'
skull fractured and him dead. Roth's head butt wasn't fatal: It
was Holmes' fall onto the concrete that killed him, which may be
why Roth did a total of 60 days in prison for the crime (which
was reduced to four