Ex-KKK kin: Don fulfilling their wishes
The former golden child of the Ku Klux Klan believes many of Donald Trump’s policies uphold the twisted ideals of the white nationalist hate organization — especially when it comes to immigration.
Derek Black, 29, is now a mild-mannered student at the University of Chicago, where he’s going for his Ph.D in history.
But five years ago, Black — the son of Don Black, the founder of the neo-Nazi internet forum, Stormfront, and godson of former Grand Wizard of the KKK, David Duke — was a loud and proud white supremacist.
In 2013, he renounced his family’s legacy of hate and abandoned all affiliation with white nationalist groups like the KKK and others.
Yet he still recognizes the stamp of supremacy when he sees it, he told the Daily News Tuesday, after meeting with students at the Facing History School in Brooklyn, where he discussed his decision to abandon his racist beliefs in 2013 and life after the KKK.
“The government itself is carrying through a lot of the beliefs (white nationalist groups) have and a lot of the goals — things like limiting immigration, and as of today, the goal of ending birthright citizenship. That has been a goal of white nationalists for decades, like explicit: this is what they want to do,” Black told The News.
“They have a person in the White House that is advocating the exact white nationalist goal that is one of the cornerstones of their belief system,” he added.
Black said he has firsthand knowledge of leaders within the white nationalist movement who are convinced the country’s commander-in-chief is going to fulfill all their wishes.
“They’re very open within their groups that it is better if they do not advocate this openly,” he said, “because it might actually hurt some of the efforts in the federal government itself.”
Black said Trump — who last week proudly identified as a “nationalist” at a rally for Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz — is bolstering the confidence of white supremacist groups.