From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbar. This is the deal.

Today, Derek Black left the white nationalist movement.

He was poised to help me, betraying his family and friends in the process.

After leaving, he came to see it as a fringe movie on the margins and

reprehensible to most Americans, which is why he has been shocked by the events of the past couple.

It's Tuesday, August 20th.

Yeah, I was born into one of the most prominent white nationalist families in the country.

Wow.

My Godfather, for a lack of any other words, David Duke, who was married to my mother when before I was born.

And then my father started the largest white nationalist website, Stormfri.

The first white nationalist website on the internet, and it has been the largest one ever since.

So I grew up with the leadership of the white nationalist movement all coming over to the house.

And when I got older, we'd go to conferences.

And it was my life.

Derek Black grew up in West Palm Beach, Florida, across the water from the President's Mar-a-Lago mansion.

And he used to drive past it almost every day in a red pickup truck with a Confederate flag sticker on the back window.

His father is Don Black, once a grand wizard of the KKK.

It sounds like what you're describing is that you're kind of the first child of American white nationalism.

I mean, I did. I knew everybody. I knew everybody who was involved in it.

And I knew all the different organizations.

And I expected that it would be my life's work to try to advance this.

I thought it was the right thing.

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