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African Imperial Wizard Actually a "Middle-Aged White Guy," Says Xiu Xiu
In today’s edition of “not The Onion,” long-running experimental outfit Xiu Xiu has taken to Instagram to call out African Imperial Wizard, a provocatively-named one-man tribal/industrial project, as actually being a “middle aged white man” underneath his — ahem — patterned Klan hood.
“African Imperial Wizard is a middle-aged white man,” the band wrote in their Instagram post. “We had the extreme displeasure of playing with him last night not knowing who he was until he came backstage and, to our shock, took off his hood. The Imperial Wizard (which is a term for a ‘Ku Klux Klan’ leader) obscures his white identity to the extent that he even wears gloves to cover his hands all while projecting a pastiche of Black African ‘tribal’ imagery on screen.”
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Electronic act African Imperial Wizard exposed as white guy in Africa-themed KKK cosplay
In news that suggests the industrial scene should have its festival lineups vetted by UNESCO, the experimental band Xiu Xiu revealed on Instagram that African Imperial Wizard—the “tribal industrial” act claiming Angolan liberation-war pedigree and an ancestral hotline to the spirit world—is actually just a middle-aged white man in a hood. A hood, of course, modeled after a Klan robe, but sewn from (what white people think of as) “African” fabrics and patterns, like a Spirit Halloween collaboration between Joseph Conrad and David Duke. Because as it turns out, slapping the word “African” in front of “Imperial Wizard” (or Ankara prints onto a hood) doesn’t make a white guy in a KKK robe any less of a white guy in a KKK robe—it just makes him the world’s first self-appointed faux “diversity hire” for white supremacy cosplay.
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