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derek black, welcome to hardtalk. your book is called the klansman�*s son, and your family as a whole were close to david duke, who's one of the most notorious ku klux klan leaders. the anti—defamation league has called him perhaps america's best known racist and anti—semite. describe for us first the home and the environment in which you grew up, in florida in the 1990s. right, thanks for having me. i grew up in a place that i think often doesn't look like what most people expect. it was relatively urban. it was in south florida, it was very racially diverse. i lived in a neig...

That ideology was derek black's whole world, but then came a turning point and a journey from white nationalism to anti—racism. today, we have that extraordinary story of race, politics and ultimately turning against what your family stands for. how does a transformation like that come about? what can we learn from it? and has derek black found a new purpose as well as a new identity? derek black, welcome to hardtalk. your book is called the klansman's son, and your family as a whole

..the lesson that i took is that it�*s rare, because changing our minds about something that�*s really core to who we are is exactly the same thing as changing our sense of who we feel connected to, who our broader community is, who are the people we love. and if we understand it that way, you recognise why it�*s so rare, but also why it always happens. so perhaps your parents haven�*t started thinking yet? they haven�*t changed their community. they know me, but their community is white nationalists. and i think as long as that�*s the case, there�*s no reason for somebody to cha...

That all these old men who were tenured professors and condemned as white supremacists must be the truth tellers. and i had to sit for years, one piece at a time, learning that the statistics that they cited were false, learning that their arguments for biological race were just ridiculous and had been disproven 100 times. even in this period, derek, when you are going through what you�*re describing, you go and spend time with david duke, don�*t you? you spend several days with david duke? yeah. you speak of your... at the point you publicly renounce your past, you also speak of your resp...

A turning point and a journey from white nationalism to anti—racism. today, we have that extraordinary story of race, politics and ultimately turning against what your family stands for. how does a transformation like that come about? what can we learn from it? and has derek black found a new purpose as well as a new identity? derek black, welcome to hardtalk. your book is called the klansman�*s son, and your family as a whole