{"id":58549,"date":"2019-07-22T22:02:57","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T22:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58549"},"modified":"2022-01-26T02:30:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T02:30:03","slug":"i-was-a-black-nazi-skinhead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58549","title":{"rendered":"I Was a Black Nazi Skinhead"},"content":{"rendered":"

I Was a Black Nazi Skinhead<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Narratively<\/a>
\n2018-11-12<\/p>\n

Story by Leo Oladimu<\/strong><\/a> [Leo Felton], as told to Shawna Kenney<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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\nIllustration by Ben Passmore<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n

When I went to prison I was black. By the time I got out 11 years later I was crazy, fascist<\/a> and white.<\/em><\/p>\n

A framed photo of American fascist Francis Parker Yockey<\/a> glared down at me from a wall in my two-room studio in Boston\u2019s North End<\/a>. Next to me was a 50-pound bag of ammonium nitrate and other materials<\/a> that I planned to make into package bombs<\/a> and hand deliver to the offices of a short list of organizations I felt were at war with my culture.<\/p>\n

Below me was the naked, athletic body of my 21-year-old comrade in arms. We\u2019d just had sex, and I was as consumed by the tattoo covering her back as I was with the girl herself. Four black hatchets, bound together at the handles, formed the most beautifully rendered swastika<\/a> I\u2019d ever seen.<\/p>\n

I hadn\u2019t told her I was black. In a few months, though, she would learn my secret \u2014 along with the rest of the world \u2014 and I would begin my trip out of the most batshit-crazy ideological corner anyone has ever painted themselves into<\/a>…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nLeo Oladimu<\/a> in prison. (2014-04-18)<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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