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
derek black, welcome to hardtalk. your book is called the klansman s son, and yourfamily 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 co
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
because my family had founded a ku klux klan organisation, this old american terrorist organisation, to try to create politics, and then had left it when they decided it wouldn t work in modern politics. what stormfront did was bring together nazis and ku klux klan people and disaffected youth and tenured professors, all under the same umbrella of the same movement. and you, again, were part of all of that. and the website, indeed, is very much still accessible today. it calls itself, on the home page, the voice of the new embattled white minority . on the kids pages, what kinds of things did you put on there? my parents had taken me out of school when i was nine, and so that was the first thing that i wrote about that i had left school, which was very diverse, very multiracial, and my family explicitly said they were taking me out of school because they did not want me to be in a multiracial environment. and what i was writing about was the idea that we weren t