New York Daily News

Ex-KKK kin: Don fulfilling their wishes

- BY MOLLY CRANE-NEWMAN

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.

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