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“Not only was David Duke grooming him to sort of be his protege, but sort of much scarier and probably more powerful, Derek saw himself the same way.”
Derek is Derek Black, and if there were a royal family of white supremacy, he was its fresh-faced crown prince. His father is Don Black, the founder of the virulently racist website Stormfront. His godfather is David Duke, the former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. And Derek’s inoffensive presentation of his white nationalism proved potent.
[There’s a ‘poisonous dynamic among white people’ over who’s to blame for racism.]
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