That's right, a real black man dons the garb of a society that years ago committed grave atrocities against those of his very hue. Do you want to know why?
35 year old Sixx King ( if we can believe that this is his real name) said that he wanted to bring awareness to black on black crime in Philly. For more on this please read the article in the link I posted here, below that is my own opinion of this controversial display.
http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2013/02/06/african-american-dressed-in-kkk-hood-on-street-corner-sparks-controversy-in-philadelphia/
My P.O.V?
I think it shows a lack of respect for those who have suffered at the hands of the KKK and those who have been abused at the hands of all who espouse the KKK's ethos.
Black on Black crime is not the product of race, it is the product of economics. The two are not bedfellows and though they maybe indirectly linked this display seems to suggest that they are equals. I can concede that murder is murder but this whole notion of 'black on black' confuses me, maybe because I'm not American. It sounds like the murders were about race when people use race as the basis of their terminology. Yet how many of those crimes that were against black people were perpetrated by blacks that did so because they despised their own race. I hardly doubt many, if any. Also, am I to believe that we are to be more concerned when black people murder blacks and not when their victims are whites, of course not so what really is his point if none of these. These crimes are people on people. The demographic and economics help create a cocktail that outputs the victims and the perpetrators as being of the same race -black but really their race as a pure, physical attribute has nothing more to do with the race of their victims than the mere coincidence of demographics. Wouldn't it be better to draw attention to the level of crime as a whole (black, white or indigo) and what that indicates and what changes could be made?
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