This is a word, a podcast from Slate. I'm your host, Jason Johnson. This weekend's deadly

shooting in Jacksonville, Florida is just the latest incident of violent white supremacists

taking black lives in this country. Now a new class of activists say white supremacists

of all colors need to be confronted everywhere, from the courts to the streets.

Good thing ranging from who you vote for to what you purchase, who you patronize is

all going to make a difference.

Confronting American Fascists, coming up on word with me, Jason Johnson. Stay with us.

Welcome to a word, a podcast about race and politics and everything else. I'm your host,

Jason Johnson, Angela Michelle Carr, AJ Laguerre, and Gerald Gallion were shot to death

this weekend in Jacksonville. The victims of a racist gunman who later killed himself.

He had approached other locations with the explicit goal of murdering black people before

opening fire in a dollar general. The Jacksonville shooting is part of a rising tide of violent

racism targeting the black community and others. At the same time, white supremacists have

found increasing acceptance within mainstream politics and leaders who seek their support

have looked the other way. Well, these white nationalist groups threaten and harass black

people, brown people, queer people, and anyone who they deem to not be a part of their

America.

But a new activist class is rising to combat white supremacy. And Darryl Amant Jenkins

is on the front line of this fight. He's an activist and journalist who has devoted

his career to tracking and confronting fascists and violent extremists and to helping people

who want a way out of those movements. He's also the executive director of one people's

project, an anti-fascist action group. And he joins us now, Darryl Amant Jenkins. Welcome

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