Its because hes black But seriously... If you work at a store and some emo-lookin kid wants to buy a knife/scissors/razerblade... Just say no.
You technically can't be a (to the mainstream) dead genre of music. Emo is bands like Orchid, Antioch Arrow, Quicksand, etc. Emo/Power Violence. If you've never heard of that you don't know what emo is. Bands like Hawthorne Heights, Dead Poetic, The Used, Dashboard Confessional = Nu-Emo I have no idea what to call it because the gigantic one sided bang has taken it over. So whatever, call it emo.