I'm certain they exist. But I've never met one.
Has anyone here ever met one?
Tell us how it went...
David Duke and Don Black used to rent a basement out from my father for storing their recruitment literature and holding their strategy meetings.
During school, I clerked in Jimmy Venable's law office. He was the last living klansman (and then Imperial Wizard) when the KKK got rebirthed atop Stone Mountain in (I'm thinking the 1920s IIRC - it was a long time ago when I clerked for him.) Additionally I went to school with the guy that Venable passed the torch to.
It all went strange - David Duke took Don Black's wife away from him. They would later reunite and rekindle their college years friendship. Don Black was shot by the brother of James Earl Ray (who was a security guard) when Black tried to steal the mailing list of a rival organization (IIRC.) Then David Duke was caught trying to sell the KKK mailing list to Bill Wilkinson. Wilkinson ended up being that faction's leader without paying for the mailing list.
When Jimmy Venable retired, he turned over that faction to a guy I went to school with. In some strange turn of events (I'm fuzzy on details) that guy got sent to prison and didn't have much for his former KKK buddies. We would later have the same classes in school (Constitutional Law, Real Estate, and a Probate - Wills class.) After that he went to work for two Jewish guys that are ACLU lawyers.
BTW, when I clerked for Venable, he used to debate politics in his office, after hours with another visible activist. This activist was also a client. A local legal newspaper did a story about the relationship as it was so unbelievable. Venable's regular client was Hosea Williams (the man who inherited the
political empire SCLC from Martin Luther King, Jr.) Venable had his clean up lady save his copy and give it to me as I had asked for it... still have it, BTW.
If I wrote a book about the 1970s through the 1990s nobody would believe it. One time a guy tried to recruit me at Venable's office. I wasn't very good recruitment material - and that was a good thing. That guy was connected to a white supremacist group that went on to rob armored cars. Luckily, I'm the kind of guy that is afraid to hold up a 3 year old for their candy bar. But I digress. That question brought back a lot of memories of my youth, school and the characters I ran across.