Thursday, February 14, 2013
Jenice Armstrong: Shocking blacks into action against violence
ALEJANDRO A. ALVAREZ / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Nicholas "Sixx" King donned a KKK costume last week to draw attention to the epidemic of black-on-black violence.
I'M SURPRISED that Nicholas "Sixx" King didn't get his butt whupped last week when he walked through Center City in a Ku Klux Klan costume.
King did it to dramatize the fact that the No. 1 killer of black men in America isn't a racist hate group such as the KKK. It's other African-American men.Let's be honest. We've gotten used to the idea of young black males killing other young black males. In fact, we're almost numb to it. When it happens, there's a collective shoulder shrug. Life goes on. The murder rate continues climbing.
King, who is promoting his anti-violence documentary "Mothers of No Tomorrow" wants people to get worked up about this topic, and, seeing how that's next to impossible, he went for shock value.
King, who's pretty widely known around town, is never one to be shy about being seen, even in KKK robes and a cone-shaped hat. Still, this latest publicity stunt topped everything he's ever done, including crashing both the Grammys and the MTV Video Music Awards.
"The Ku Klux Klan is no longer the primary killer of African-Americans. It's been outsourced to a subculture of young black men," King said afterward. "There's . . . a lot of mitigating factors of why it's happening. But definitely, the number one is self-hate
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