derek black, welcome to hardtalk. your book is called the klansman s son, and your family as a whole were close to david duke, who s one of the most notorious ku klux klan leaders. the anti defamation league has called him perhaps america s best known racist and anti semite. describe for us first the home and the environment in which you grew up, in florida in the 1990s. right, thanks for having me. i grew up in a place that i think often doesn t look like what most people expect. it was relatively urban. it was in south florida, it was very racially diverse. i lived in a neighbourhood with people from lots of different countries, and although i grew up in an anti semitic movement, there was a very largejewish population in the area. and that was ok for my family, because their world view is what separated them from the rest of the country. it was that they saw themselves as a part of a movement that they had been building since decades before i was born, and they wanted to c
were close to david duke, who s one of the most notorious ku klux klan leaders. the anti defamation league has called him perhaps america s best known racist and anti semite. describe for us first the home and the environment in which you grew up, in florida in the 1990s. right, thanks for having me. i grew up in a place that i think often doesn t look like what most people expect. it was relatively urban. it was in south florida, it was very racially diverse. i lived in a neighbourhood with people from lots of different countries, and although i grew up in an anti semitic movement, there was a very largejewish population in the area. and that was ok for my family, because their world view is what separated them from the rest of the country. it was that they saw themselves as a part of a movement that they had been building since decades before i was born, and they wanted to continue it into the future. and they married other people in the movement. they went to conferences w
derek black, welcome to hardtalk. your book is called the klansman s son, and your family as a whole were close to david duke, who s one of the most notorious ku klux klan leaders. the anti defamation league has called him perhaps america s best known racist and anti semite. describe for us first the home and the environment in which you grew up, in florida in the 1990s. right, thanks for having me. i grew up in a place that i think often doesn t look like what most people expect. it was relatively urban. it was in south florida, it was very racially diverse. i lived in a neighbourhood with people from lots of different countries, and although i grew up in an anti semitic movement, there was a very largejewish population in the area. and that was ok for my family, because their world view is what separated them from the rest of the country. it was that they saw themselves as a part of a movement that they had been building since decades before i was born, and they wanted to c
do you remember that moment? do you remember hearing about it? you were still in the movement at the time. yeah. what happened ? violence from this movement was so common my entire life. it was something that.we rationalised, my family rationalised, because they explicitly banned violent rhetoric on stormfront, on my dad s website. people could be banned for that. and breivik wasn t banned because he never said anything explicitly violent. hejust said everything else about this ideology that i was growing up in, and that ideology named its enemies. it said, who shouldn t be here? who didn t belong? muslims. breivik. . .. breivik talked about norway being flooded by muslims. all of his murders, he justified with exactly the ideology that my family and i were advocating. and yet, every time murders like this would happen, they would say, well,
there was one in 2009 where three police officers were killed in pittsburgh by a man called richard poplawski. and then there was the absolutely searing moment in norway in 2011 when anders breivik, a man who had spent many hours on stormfront, killed 77 people, many of them. many of them children. many of them very young. do you remember that moment? do you remember hearing about it? you were still in the movement at the time. yeah. what happened ? violence from this movement was so common my entire life. it was something that.we rationalised, my family rationalised, because they explicitly banned violent rhetoric on stormfront, on my dad s website. people could be banned for that. and breivik wasn t banned because he never said anything explicitly violent. hejust said everything else about this ideology that i was growing up in, and that ideology named its enemies. it said, who shouldn t be here? who didn t belong? muslims. breivik. . .. breivik talked about norway being flooded by