Former Klux Klux Klan Grand Wizard Tom Metzger says Donald Trump’s recent decision to tap Breitbart Media’s Steve Bannon as his campaign CEO amounts to dog whistling that most people won’t hear, but that will appeal to “closeted racists.” Metzger, who has been described as “one of the most notorious living white supremacists in the United States” by the Southern Poverty Law Center and served as the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s, knows there aren’t enough white supremacists to swing a presidential election. But he says there are plenty of voters...
- 8/26/2016
- by Itay Hod
- The Wrap
A few weeks ago, I talked to my dad, a Holocaust survivor, about recent comparisons made between Donald Trump and Adolph Hitler. This week, I spoke to someone with a different perspective. Tom Metzger has been described as “one of the most notorious living white supremacists in the United States” by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit advocacy group specializing in civil rights. He founded the White Aryan Resistance (War) and was the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s. I asked him why white supremacists are drawn to Trump, whether the Hitler comparisons are fair...
- 5/7/2016
- by Itay Hod
- The Wrap
White supremacists move to a very small North Dakota town and start buying property, encouraging their friends to do the same so they can eventually "take over" the town. You can picture the resulting documentary -- the interviews with town members, the Southern Poverty Law Center (Splc), the tension about how this potentially explosive situation will end. But you might not predict that Welcome to Leith would skillfully show you that the situation is not as clear cut as it sounds, and show the poisonous side effects of not just hate, but fear.
The film opens with an ominous 911 call -- a woman in Leith believes herself to be in peril from men roaming the area with guns. But how did matters get to that point? Welcome to Leith backtracks to show us. It begins when Craig Cobb, whom the Splc calls "one of the top ten white supremicists in America,...
The film opens with an ominous 911 call -- a woman in Leith believes herself to be in peril from men roaming the area with guns. But how did matters get to that point? Welcome to Leith backtracks to show us. It begins when Craig Cobb, whom the Splc calls "one of the top ten white supremicists in America,...
- 4/2/2015
- by Jette Kernion
- Slackerwood
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