Ex-white supremacist Christian Picciolini says white nationalists are trying to outdo one another in getting their message across, and that's troubling.
It was the summer of 1987 when Clark Reid Martell, the leader of the Chicago Area Skinheads , approached 14-year-old Christian Picciolini, who was smoking a joint in an alleyway. At the time, Picciolini, the son of Italian immigrants, was somewhat of a loner — he had spent much of his life growing up in a rough neighborhood in the south side of Chicago, where he was often picked on. For a moment that night, the joint gave him a high that he needed.
"As soon as I started hanging around these guys, bullies stopped picking on me, and all the girls started coming to me," Picciolini said.Two years later, after Martell was sentenced to 11 years in prison for beating a female who wanted to leave CASH, Picciolini took charge of the group. He stockpiled an arsenal of weapons, from an AK-47 to a sawed-off shotgun, and would frequently get into fights with people of color.
Although Piccolini started to have his doubts about his involvement in CASH, he wasn't sure how to leave. After all, he was the group's leader and didn't want to tip his fellow members off. It took him three more years before he left the gang for good. Photo: Courtesy of Christian Picciolini "As white nationalism goes, we are seeing a surge in it," Picciolini said."We’re at a time right now in society where there's a lot of confusion. Usually, when it's like that, it's pretty ripe for nationalism. When people have grievances, they're looking for solutions. We're being pushed to opposing cliffs."
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