Just this week Derek Black, the 24-year-old son of the White Nationalist leader Don Black—a young man who grew up in the red hot center of a hate movement, and who was publicly groomed to take his place as its leader—publicly renounced his racism. “It has become clear to me,” he wrote in an amazing open letter to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Mark Potok, that “there is no way to advocate for white nationalism but by arguing that minorities pose a threat to our supremacy.” “It is an advocacy that I cannot support,” he continued, “having grown past my bubble, talked to the people I affected, read more widely, and realized the necessary impact my actions had on people I never wanted to harm.” Black described his estrangement from the movement that was his birthright as “a gradual awakening process” that only seems sudden; he acknowledged his long-standing reluctance to “drive a wedge” between himself and his father and his community, but concluded that it was in the “best interests of everyone involved, directly or indirectly, to be honest about my slow but steady disaffiliation from white nationalism.” Let the dead bury the dead, indeed.
Posted on: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 16:56:57 +0000
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