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<br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shhh: You might hear a pin drop in the city hall of Parma, Missouri, where top officials and police officers quit after a black woman was elected mayor for the first time, <a href="http://www.kfvs12.com/story/28801129/officers-city-officials-resign-after-new-mayor-elected">KFVS</a> reports via the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/19/parma-police-resign-black-female-mayor_n_7097110.html">Huffington Post</a>. Former city clerk Tyrus Byrd was sworn in as mayor last week, after beating 37-year incumbent Randall Ramsey by a 38 votes, 122-84. But Byrd is without a clerk, city attorney, or water treatment supervisor, who promptly walked off the job; five of Parma's six cops did as well, claiming "safety concerns." Byrd has no comment on the walkouts, but says she hasn't been able to find resignation letters reportedly left behind, the <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/missouri-town-elects-black-mayor-5-6-cops-resign-report-article-1.2190915">Daily News</a> reports.<br /><br />On the bright side, Byrd says she's getting assistance from residents and other communities to help keep the town on track, <a href="http://www.wsmv.com/story/28814016/parma-residents-react-to-loss-of-police-officers">WSMV</a> reports. And Parma residents are weighing in: "I think it's pretty dirty they all quit without giving her a chance," says Martha Miller, a white resident. "But I don't think they hurt the town any by quitting, because who needs six police for 740 people." Black resident Terrell Thatch sees it a little differently: "They say we have six cops on the payroll," he says. "How can we have six cops, and go days without cops patrolling? You know, and we've got these recent break-ins." According to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parma,_Missouri#Demographics">Wikipedia</a>, the 2010 census found Parma to be about 67% white, 29% black, and 2.8% Latino. (See how officials in Ferguson, Missouri joked about black abortions.</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How does a Black police officer working undercover in Colorado Springs become a card carrying member of the Ku Klux Klan? And do it so convincingly that he is asked to lead the local KKK chapter? <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ron.stallworth?fref=ts" target="_blank">Ron Stallworth's</a> new book tells a story that would be fascinating as fiction but is made all the more exciting because it is true. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Black-Klansman/527633360689778?fref=ts" target="_blank">Black Klansman</a> is a worthwhile and important read. I enjoyed it immensely and recommend it highly.<br /><br />Laura Minor<br /><br />Manager, Bauman Rare Books<br /><br />Las Vegas, Nevada</span><div>
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I encouraged Ron Stallworth to write this book. It is a brilliant demonstration of police intelligence thinking outside the box. More than this, it is a revealing story exposing the utter stupidity of racial prejudice among the most notorious and supposedly intelligent people. A special gem awaiting the reader who searches a little deeper are moments of subtle covert bias hidden even in our own law enforcement circles. I must admit, I enjoyed the amusing way these arrogant fools are publicly stripped of their facades. <br />
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“Ron Stallworth infiltrated the ruthless Ku Klux Klan, as an African-American police detective. With courage and brilliance he breached this oldest and violent white supremacist hate group. Although Ron encountered internal political dissentions that would jeopardize his career, he had the fortitude to keep going; quitting was not an option! There are many training manuals on “how to work undercover.” Most give you the basics, but fail to expand on this dedication, commitment, and the personal and political sacrifices to succeed. Ron Stallworth tackles these struggles in his book of an untold written chapter in the history of the Colorado Springs Police Department.”</div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: NeueHaasGroteskTextPro-75Bold, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Sgt. Stallworth: </span>Alicia, my experience working the KKK assignment influenced the rest of my career in law enforcement in that it taught me to think and act on my own initiative when my superiors in the department stood in my way. I refused to bend to the rules of protocol when the obstacles of “rank structure” and “following the chain of command” prevented me from getting the job done. That’s one reason I retired as a Sergeant and not at a higher rank…I refused to “play the game” the way the bosses wanted the game played. It is a decision that has cost me money in retirement pay, but one that I have NEVER regretted. Had I played by those rules this investigation would never have gotten off the ground because, as I described in the book, Lt. Arthur and Sgt. Jim of the Narcotics Unit refused to let me use Chuck, the “white Ron Stallworth” for the investigation. This was a crucial aspect towards the overall success of the investigation and their pettiness towards me personally forced me to violate normal protocol procedures which allowed for the investigation to move forward. In terms of “insider information” regarding race relations, I do not think I learned anything unique that I or anyone of color had not previously known. They simply do not like people of color because of their color and their belief that their color has given them an edge in edge in American society at the expense of the white race. They feel that we who, as the late Curtis Mayfield sang, “people who are darker than blue” are the puppets of the Jews who exist to do their bidding and therefore we (and they) must be eliminated or controlled if the white race is to flourish. They feel blacks are not too far removed on the evolutionary plain from monkeys and can never be thought of in the same social sphere as the white man. This was one reason why I took such great pleasure in making a fool out of the Grand Wizard, David Duke, himself. This simian with a badge was literally out-thinking him both on the phone in our conversations and in person when I was assigned to be his bodyguard. At the time he held a Masters Degree from Louisiana State University while I was a high school graduate with approximately 15-20 hours of college credit. Which one of us was exhibiting more of an ape-like mental capacity during these encounters? I don’t believe it was me. As I said in the lyrical rap ditty I wrote that can be found on YouTube called “A Salute to the Klan”…<span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">“Made a fool of by one he called ape-like / Proving he was the actual intellectual tyke.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: NeueHaasGroteskTextPro-75Bold, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><a href="https://twitter.com/Nyota_nuru" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Barbara Jackson </a><a href="https://twitter.com/Nyota_nuru" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">@Nyota_nuru:</a> </span>Was he passing for white or did he wear his hood all the time or is it the KKK now accept AAs in their ranks?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: NeueHaasGroteskTextPro-75Bold, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Sgt. Stallworth: </span>No, George, they were not blind. The KKK members that I was dealing with NEVER saw me because my interaction with them occurred over the phone. They were convinced that I was 1) white, and 2) a racial supremacist like them based strictly on my telephone conversation with them. Their belief was reinforced by my use of the white detective, “Chuck”, the “white Ron Stallworth” referenced in my book, <i style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Black Klansman,</i> who took my phone conversations and projected them to the next level forward in the undercover scheme. Throughout the seven month undercover phase of this investigation the KKK members only saw me once, at the Colorado Springs luncheon when the Grand Wizard (David Duke) came into town on a media tour and recruitment blitz and I was assigned to be his bodyguard. I interacted personally with him, his state Grand Dragon (state leader), and the local Colorado Springs chapter leader. All three of these individuals were “victims” of my undercover telephone conversations pretending to be a white supremacist and I stood there among them, shaking their hands, conversing with them in all of my beautiful black-skinned glory (with a KKK membership card signed by David Duke in my wallet) and not one of them recognized that I was the one they had been speaking with on the phone. Remember, this was not long after David Duke had told me during one of our conversations how he could tell how he was speaking to a “n—-r” over the phone. Now here he was in the physical midst of that very same “n—-r” and he could not tell that he had conversed with me over the phone in the guise of one of his Klansmen. As I wrote in a little lyrical rap ditty you can find on YouTube: “<span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">So clever this con, their trust to a man with faith and their respect I was now part of the Klan.”</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: NeueHaasGroteskTextPro-75Bold, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Sgt. Stallworth: </span>I take the usual precautions, which I will not outline here for your readers. Let’s just say that I am ready for any and all possible eventualities but I don’t live in fear of these racist idiots. I REFUSE to succumb to their brand of lunacy and have my life governed by their need to feel superior based on their sense of inferiority and need to feel superior because of their white skin. I REFUSE to play their game and no person of color should play their game. That is how they held our people hostage-psychologically-for generations. NO MORE!!! Not with me! My investigation, as described in my book, <i style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Black Klansman</i>, detailed the seriousness of these types of individuals, but it also detailed the clownish nature that is all too often an inherent part of their nature. It is that clownish nature that I captured in my narrative that led me to believe (and I stated) that “…sooner rather than later we WOULD, in fact, OVERCOME those that would try and define minorities by their own personal failings of racial/ethnic bias, bigotry, religious preferences, and the false belief that people of color and others who did not fit their definition of ‘pure Aryan white’ were not deserving of respect, much less of being classified as ‘people.’”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: NeueHaasGroteskTextPro-75Bold, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><a href="https://twitter.com/reginas232" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">@reginas232</a>:</span> I’m too busy laughing to ask. How did he keep a straight face in dealing with them? Kudos to you sir.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: NeueHaasGroteskTextPro-75Bold, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Sgt. Stallworth: </span>Regina, thank you for the kudos. Much appreciated. How did I keep a straight face in dealing with them during the course of the investigation? The fact of the matter was that often I did not keep a straight face. As I describe on pages 81-82 of my book, <i style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Black Klansman,</i> there were times when professional decorum was lost on my part due to the reaction of my Sergeant, who was white and a dear friend, listening to my end of the telephone conversation with the various Klansmen. As I pretended to be a raging white supremacist blaring out the racist buzzwords of hate and vitriol that they love to spout, my Sergeant would be doubled over in red-faced, belly-aching laughter at my pretense conning them in the process. His response at my antics would all too often set me off into fits of laughter which would further spur him on into deeper fits of laughter until we resembled a<i style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Saturday Night Live</i> skit in which the performers are cracking each other up while trying with all their means to maintain the appropriate professional decorum yet finding it virtually impossible to do so. Sometimes my Sergeant would find himself so caught up in my telephone performance that he would be in the throes of falling out of his chair on one knee and choking in a fit of laughter to the point where he had to run out of the office to recompose himself while I tried to continue the conversation without diminishing my professional decorum as a “white racist” any further due to my breakdown in laughter at him. Fortunately they never caught on to our antics and things proceeded along. But even I have to admit it was funny hearing myself saying how much I hate “n—–s” and how we have to do something to control “n—–s” and “the white man can’t get a fair shake in this society because of the dominance of the n—–s.” These were typical statements that I used to ingratiate myself with these people and they “ate it up.” Though David Duke and his “new” Ku Klux Klan did not (supposedly) use the “n-word” in public, he/they and I threw it around like a baseball in our conversations with one another as a matter of routine. I also used other words and phrases that were typical of their speech and thought process to allow them to accept me as one of them.</span></div>
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LAYTON -- Sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction.<br />
Retired police <a href="http://about.me/blackklansman" target="_blank">Sgt. Ron Stallworth’s</a> story — about how he, a black undercover cop, infiltrated one of the nation’s most notorious hate groups in 1978 — is one such truth. Stallworth, 61, recently released the book “Black Klansman,” detailing his amazing story during his early years of service.<br />
“I was sitting in my office reading the newspaper,” Stallworth, who now lives in Layton, said. “I was going through the classified section, and on this particular day there was an ad that said ‘Ku Klux Klan.’”<br />
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It listed a post office box to send inquiries, and so he wrote a letter, identifying himself as a white man and peppering the note with racial slurs. The undercover Colorado officer, who was still in his 20s at the time, did make one crucial mistake, however: He signed the letter with his real name. He wasn’t too worried, though, since he figured the whole setup was probably a joke.<br />
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It wasn’t until he got a phone call a week later from the local <a href="http://www.kkk.com/" target="_blank">KKK</a> organizer about starting a Colorado Springs chapter that he realized how serious the ad was.<br />
Stallworth told the man that his sister was dating a “n--ger,” and how mad it made him. The organizer liked his story and figured that Stallworth was exactly what the new chapter needed. He asked to meet-which was obviously a problem. But the quick-thinking officer gave a description of one of his close friends, who worked in the narcotics division, and organized a meeting for the following week.<br />
Stallworth’s friend Chuck would play “the white Ron Stallworth.”<br />
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“The funny thing is that Chuck’s voice [was] totally distinctive [from] mine,” Stallworth said. He was only questioned about the different voices once — and he successfully blamed the flub on a sinus infection.<br />
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There was only one other time when Stallworth’s cover was almost blown: after his supervisor assigned him to be then-Grand Wizard David Duke’s bodyguard.<br />
“[Duke] was planning a publicity blitz in Colorado Springs. He was coming into town to do interviews and try to drum up interest,” Stallworth said. “I got assigned to be his bodyguard because there were death threats against him.”<br />
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At the time, Stallworth was having fairly regular phone conversations with at least three Klansmen, including David Duke. “I was apprehensive that they would recognize my voice,” the retired officer said.<br />
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Stallworth remembered how seemingly amiable Duke was. He was likable enough and intelligent, a great orator, and never used slurs about black people or wore his robe. The Grand Wizard even shook Stallworth’s hand and thanked him.<br />
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“He was changing the face of the whole Ku Klux Klan,” Stallworth said, describing Duke as the type of man a girl would love to take home to her mother.<br />
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One moment between the two almost went south, however, when Stallworth had someone take a photo of him with Duke and the Grand Dragon, even putting his arm around both men. It obviously upset Duke, who tried to snatch the camera. Stallworth and Duke faced off. “If you touch me,” Stallworth said to the Grand Wizard, “I’ll arrest you for assaulting a police officer, and that’s worth five years in prison.”<br />
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Stallworth recalled, “I was thinking about all our forefathers and foremothers who [were] dealing with racists like this throughout the generations, who lacked power, who lacked authority, who were at the mercy of idiots like this and could do nothing to stop it because of the power of the Klan,” he said pointedly. “But on this particular occasion, I had the power, I was the authority and the Klan was at my mercy.”<br />
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Duke eventually backed down and walked away. As Stallworth put it, he was the supremacist’s greatest fear: “a n----- with a gun.”<br />
Stallworth’s life has never really been stereotypically “normal”; his Klan infiltration epitomized his unusual approach to life.<br />
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At just 19 years old, he moved from Texas to Colorado Springs, joining the police force via a cadet program designed to bring more minorities into the department. He was the first black cadet to enter the program. At 22 he became the first black detective, the youngest in the history of the department, "he said". Ron Stallworth also has a twitter account and you can connect with him here to find out the latest news or interview.<br />
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Meanwhile, he was just trying to save up enough money so that he could go to college to get a degree and become a physical education teacher. However, in the end, Stallworth was having too much fun as an officer, and he also realized he’d be making way more money than he would as a teacher.<br />
One of his first undercover assignments was to look into Black Panther activist Stokely Carmichael. His supervisors told him to blend in and listen to Carmichael’s speech and then report anything interesting. Ron Stallworth has a viral rap video on YouTube <br />
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“It was my first brush with living black history,” Stallworth says. “He was a fiery, bombastic speaker. He had a special way of speaking, and he could fire up a crowd like nobody’s business.”<br />
Stallworth’s Klan investigation ended after about seven months because he was so good at his job that “the local organizer had the idea that they needed someone who was a resident of Colorado <br />
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Springs to assume the duties,” he says. “They took a vote at one of their meetings, and by unanimous vote they had determined that they wanted Ron Stallworth to become the new local organizer because he was a ‘loyal and dedicated Klansman.’ “<br />
Stallworth wanted to go for it, but the higher-ups weren’t as thrilled. “The chief panicked and said, ‘I want you to shut this investigation down now. I want you to stop sending Chuck to meetings, stop answering the undercover phone line. I want the undercover phone line changed, and I want Ron Stallworth the Klansman to disappear.’ “<br />
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The chief also ordered Stallworth to destroy all reports from the investigation. Stallworth tried to argue against closing down the operation, but his efforts were in vain.<br />
What Stallworth didn’t do, however, was destroy all the reports.<br />
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“I took the notebooks ... and I walked out of the office with them under my arm and put them in the car. I drove home with them, and they’ve remained with me over the past 35 years, and that’s what I based my book on.“For one thing, I recognized that I had done something quite significant. I had penetrated the Ku Klux Klan as a black man,” he continued. “To the best of my knowledge, no one had ever done that before. I have a membership card that I carry in my wallet that identifies me as a member of the [Klan]; I have a certificate of membership signed by Duke, certifying me as a member of his [Klan]; and if I had destroyed the information ... if I had told the story after that, nobody would ever have believed [me] ... because there was no evidence.”<br />
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It is believed that during Stallworth’s stint with the Klan, he prevented at least three cross burnings from occurring by upping security in those neighborhoods whenever the Klan invited him on one of their excursions.<br />
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The same day the chief told him to stop the investigation, the phone that he used for undercover work rang again and again, but Stallworth obeyed orders and didn’t answer.<br />
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“That very night, a cross burned in front of the nightclub where Carmichael had spoken three years earlier,” he said. Stallworth believes the phone call was one of his “Klan buddies” inviting him to a burning<br />
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Credit By BREANNA EDWARDSAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02263913509702787186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4936785010235662395.post-10259463156946272862014-05-28T16:19:00.000-07:002014-05-28T16:19:30.038-07:00News!! Alert!! Set your DVR's "Black Klansman" will be HARDBALL with Chris Matthews (MSNBC). <span class="userContent">Hello all <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk8_XLLUlYk" target="_blank">Sgt. Ron Stallworth</a>, Ret. was called by a producer for HARDBALL with <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3080432/ns/msnbc-hardball_with_chris_matthews/t/chris-matthews/" target="_blank">Chris Matthews (MSNBC)</a>. He will be appearing on his show today at 5:45 PM (MST), 4:45 PM (PST) to discuss this Shocking true story and book <br /> <a href="http://www.blackklansman.com/" target="_blank">Black Klansman</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="color_2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;"><a href="http://about.me/blackklansman" target="_blank">Sergeant Ron Stallworth</a>, (Ret.) is a 32-year law enforcement veteran who began his career in 1972 at the age of 19 with the <a href="http://www.springsgov.com/SectionIndex.aspx?SectionID=12" target="_blank">Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD</a>). In 1975 he became the first Black detective in the history of the CSPD as well as the youngest at the age of 22. He worked undercover narcotics, vice, criminal intelligence and organized crime. During this time, he initiated the investigations which are the subject of this book. He later served a one-year assignment as an investigator with the Colorado Attorney General’s Organized Crime Strike Force. He left the CSPD in 1980.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="color_2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">From 1980-82, Sergeant Stallworth worked narcotics and organized crime intelligence in Phoenix, Arizona for the Arizona Drug Control District (later known as the <a href="http://azmemory.azlibrary.gov/cdm/" target="_blank">Arizona Criminal Intelligence Systems Agency</a>). From 1982-86, Stallworth worked undercover narcotics as a Special Agent for the Wyoming Attorney General’s Division of Criminal Investigation.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="color_2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">In 1986, Sergeant Stallworth was hired as a Special Agent by the <a href="http://www.publicsafety.utah.gov/investigations/TaskIndex.html" target="_blank">Utah Department of Public Safety’s Narcotics & Liquor Law Enforcement Bureau</a>, later known as the Utah Division of Investigation. In 1989, he researched and authored the report that led to the creation of the Gang Narcotics Intelligence Unit, a joint effort between the Utah DPS and <a href="http://slcpd.com/" target="_blank">Salt Lake City Police Department</a>. With the aid of federal grant money, that unit later evolved into the Salt Lake Area Gang Project now known as the <a href="http://updsl.org/divisions/metro_gang_unit/metro_gang_unit" target="_blank">Metro Gang Unit</a>, the first multi-jurisdictional gang suppression and diversion unit in the state. From the recommendations contained in Sergeant Stallworth’s report, several other gang task forces later became operational in the state. The Utah Public Safety Commissioner later named Sergeant Stallworth the state’s Gang Intelligence Coordinator. He was the first, and to date, only person to hold this position.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="color_2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">While working gangs, Sergeant Stallworth began researching the correlation between gangster rap music and street gang culture. He subsequently wrote four books on the subject (two of which have been published) and has authored numerous articles for magazines and journals. In the 1990’s, Sergeant Stallworth testified at three congressional hearings on the subject of gangster rap music, gangs, and youth violence in America. In 1998, the <a href="http://www.ngcrc.com/" target="_blank">National Gang Crime Research Center</a> honored him with its prestigious “Frederick Milton Thrasher Outstanding National Leadership Lifetime Achievement Award.” Sergeant Stallworth was a consultant for the 2009 Gangland episode, “From Heaven to Hell,” about the Polynesian Tongan Crip Gang of Salt Lake City.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="color_2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">Sergeant Stallworth holds a BA in Criminal Justice Administration from <a href="http://www.ccis.edu/nationwide/main.asp?Saltlake" target="_blank">Columbia College (Salt Lake Campus</a>). He has been a guest lecturer at the <a href="http://www.utah.edu/" target="_blank">University of Utah</a>, <a href="http://home.byu.edu/home/" target="_blank">Brigham Young University</a>, <a href="http://www.utexas.edu/" target="_blank">University of Texas</a> - El Paso, Utah State University, Weber State University, San Francisco State University, Westminster College (Salt Lake City), and Columbia College (Salt Lake City and Missouri campuses). Sergeant Stallworth was an Adjunct Criminal Justice Instructor at Salt Lake Community College from 2008-2013. Ron was awarded a letter of commendation from the Colorado Attorney General during his year with the Organized Crime Strike Force. He retired from the Utah Department of Public Safety in 2005 after a 20-year career during which he was a two-time recipient of the department’s Distinguished Service Award. </span></span></span></span></div>
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SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 Utah) - A black Utah man is now talking about what some would consider the unthinkable. As an undercover officer he became a member of Ku Klux Klan. Thursday he spoke to Good 4 Utah's Brian Carlson about his experience.<br />
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"If looks could kill, I would not be here sitting talking to you today," said Ret. Sgt. Ron Stallworth, author of “Black Klansman.” <br />
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You wouldn't believe it unless former Utah police Sgt. Ron Stallworth told you himself. In 1979 he went undercover as a black member of the Ku Klux Klan. <br />
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"I did the talking on the phone, when they needed a face to face I would send in Chuck posing as me, or as I liked to refer to him as the white Ron Stallworth, he said. <br />
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With the help of another detective, while working in Colorado Springs, Stallworth gained the trust of the local KKK and convinced them to give him membership.<br />
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He had a card signed by David Duke himself. The Klan trusted him with their plans to commit crimes, and threaten African Americans by burning crosses, something Stallworth put a stop to three times during his investigation. <br />
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"One of the things I'm most proud of is no black child, no child period ever had to wake up to a burning cross," Stallworth said. <br />
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All documented in his recently released book “Black Klansman,” Stallworth got unprecedented access to one of America's most notorious hate groups. <br />
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Over nine months he did it so well, the KKK considered him one of their most respected members. <br />
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"So they took a vote, they took a unanimous vote and they wanted Ron Stallworth to become the leader of the Ku Klux Klan chapter because he was quote loyal and a dedicated Klansman," he said. <br />
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There's a lot more experiences Carlson couldn't cover with the short time ABC 4 Utah has in the newscast, but they’re all in his book Black Klansman. If like to purchase the book, click on this link – <a href="http://blackklansman.blogspot.com/2014/03/author-of-black-klansman.html" target="_blank" title="Black Klansman book blogsite">Black Klansman</a>. If you'd like to have Stallworth speak to your group or class about his stories, call him at 801-898-6953. </div>
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<strong>CNN)</strong> -- The <a href="http://www.blackklansman.com/" target="_blank">racism</a> controversy embroiling Don Sterling, the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, has reached half way around the world to Malaysia, where President Obama is on a diplomatic mission to Asia Pacific nations.<br />
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At a press conference with Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak Sunday, Obama was asked about racist comments Sterling allegedly made about <a href="http://about.me/blackklansman" target="_blank">African-Americans</a>.</div>
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"When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk. That's what happened here," the President said.</div>
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Obama also said Sterling's alleged comments are an example of how "the United States continues to wrestle with the legacy of race and slavery and segregation."</div>
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"That's still there, the vestiges of discrimination. We've made enormous strides, but you're going to continue to see this percolate up every so often," Obama said in Malaysia.</div>
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Sterling, who has owned the basketball franchise for nearly three decades, is now under investigation by the NBA over the alleged comments.</div>
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According to the website TMZ, Sterling made the alleged discriminatory remarks during a 10-minute argument he had with girlfriend V. Stiviano on April 9. TMZ posted a recording of the argument online Friday.</div>
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If authentic, the remarks seem to reflect Sterling's embarrassment and frustration with Stiviano over her associating with African-Americans at Clippers games and for posting such pictures on her Instagram account.</div>
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Clippers president Andy Roeser on Saturday questioned the recording and suggested a woman -- whom he doesn't mention by name -- was "getting even" with Sterling over a lawsuit.</div>
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According to a report from CNN affiliate KCAL/KCBS last month, Rochelle Sterling, the wife of Donald Sterling, filed a lawsuit last month and is seeking damages and property.</div>
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NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said that the league's investigation will seek to determine whether the tape is authentic and to figure out the context in which these "offensive and disturbing" comments were made.</div>
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But he cautioned that Sterling must be afforded due process, so he would not speculate on any possible punishment, if any -- but said that the investigation will move "extraordinarily quickly." <strong></strong></div>
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Speaking about the recording, Roeser said, "we do not know if it is legitimate or it has been altered. We do know that the woman on the tape -- who we believe released it to TMZ -- is the defendant in a lawsuit brought by the Sterling family alleging that she embezzled more than $1.8 million, who told Mr. Sterling that she would "get even."</div>
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TMZ has not said who made the recording or how the <a href="http://bre348.wix.com/celebritypublishing" target="_blank">celebrity</a>-centric website obtained it.</div>
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Attempts to reach Stiviano on Saturday were unsuccessful. She is part African-American, according to the recording.</div>
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The man alleged to be Sterling takes particular exception to a photo she posted to Instagram with NBA icon Earvin "Magic" Johnson.</div>
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"In your lousy f**ing Instagrams, you don't have to have yourself with -- walking with black people," the man says.</div>
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"If it's white people, it's OK?" she responds. "If it was Larry Bird, would it make a difference?"</div>
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"I've known [Magic] well and he should be admired .... I'm just saying that it's too bad you can't admire him privately," the man on the recording says. "Admire him, bring him here, feed him, f**k him, but don't put [Magic] on an Instagram for the world to have to see so they have to call me. And don't bring him to my games."</div>
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"I feel sorry for my friends Coach Doc Rivers and Chris Paul that they have to work for a man that feels that way about African Americans" read a tweet from <a href="https://twitter.com/MagicJohnson" target="_blank">@MagicJohnson</a>. "I will never go to a Clippers game again as long as Donald Sterling is the owner," read another.</div>
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"We also suggest that <a href="http://www.blackklansman.com/" target="_blank">African Americans and Latinos</a> should honor his (Sterling's) request and not attend the games," Alice Huffman, the President of the NAACP California State Conference said in a statement released Saturday.</div>
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It's the first suggestion of a boycott of the team after the racism allegations.</div>
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In a side bar, Sterling was expected to receive a lifetime achievement award at an event next month to mark the 100th anniversary of the Los Angeles NAACP.</div>
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"If these allegations are proven true, we are extremely disappointed in Mr. Sterling," Huffman said.</div>
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She urged the Los Angeles branch of the NAACP to withdraw Sterling's name from the honoree list for the anniversary celebration.</div>
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Roeser said Sterling is upset and apologizes for sentiments attributed to him about Earvin Johnson. "[Sterling] has long considered Magic a friend and has only the utmost respect and admiration for him -- both in terms of who he is and what he has achieved."</div>
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Sterling is "emphatic that what is reflected on that recording is not consistent with, nor does it reflect his views, beliefs or feelings," Roeser said.</div>
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"I don't know if I'm surprised or not," Clippers head coach Doc Rivers said at the team's practice Saturday, adding that he "obviously" didn't like the comments.</div>
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Rivers, who is in his first year coaching the team, told reporters that he didn't want the controversy to distract from the playoffs. He said he would be the sole person speaking on behalf of the team.</div>
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Miami Heat forward LeBron James was one of several players and former players weighing in on the controversy. James spoke to reporters before the playoff game against the Charlottle Bobcats Saturday night.</div>
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"If the reports are true, it's unacceptable. It's unacceptable in our league. It doesn't matter if you're white, black, Hispanic, whatever, all across the races. It's unacceptable and as a commissioner in our league, they have to make a stand, and they have to be very aggressive with it."</div>
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"Should this guy continue to be an owner?" asked<a href="https://twitter.com/SHAQ" target="_blank"> Shaquille O'Neal</a>, who also called the comments "repugnant."</div>
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"We cannot have an NBA owner discriminating against the league," said <a href="https://twitter.com/CHARLESBARRKLEY" target="_blank">Charles Barkley</a>. "We're a black league."</div>
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The players union's response will be led by NBA player-turned-mayor of Sacramento Kevin Johnson. "The reported comments made by Clippers owner Donald Sterling are reprehensible and unacceptable," he said in a statement.</div>
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Former El Pasoan <a href="http://about.me/blackklansman" target="_blank">Ron Stallworth</a> still carries an official<br />
Ku Klux Klan membership card in his wallet.<br />
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Stallworth details how he infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in "<a href="http://www.blackklansman.com/" target="_blank">Black Klansman</a>," a new book describing his work as an undercover intelligence
police officer in Colorado Springs, Colo.<br />
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Stallworth, 60, a 1971 graduate of Austin High School, became the
youngest and first black detective in the <a href="http://www.springsgov.com/SectionIndex.aspx?SectionID=12" target="_blank">Colorado Springs Police Department</a>, 22 months after he signed up as a patrolman.<br />
"I broke racial grounds in that department," he said during a recent visit to El Paso.<br />
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<a href="http://policeandfirepublishing.com/">Policeandfirepublishing.com</a> is releasing the retired veteran police
officer's book on Tuesday. It may be ordered through <a href="http://blackklansman.com/">blackklansman.com</a>.<br />
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Stallworth, a decorated
police officer, retired in 2005 after 32 years working undercover
investigating narcotics, vice, criminal intelligence and organized crime
in Colorado, Arizona and Utah.<br />
Stallworth monitored subversive groups or individuals while working as an intelligence officer in Colorado in 1978.<br />
One day, he spotted a newspaper classified ad posted by the local<a href="http://www.kkk.com/" target="_blank"> Ku Klux Klan</a> chapter as part of its recruiting efforts.<br />
Stallworth sent a note to a post office box saying that he was a
white racist interested in learning more about the Klan. He mistakenly
signed his own name and included an undercover telephone number.<br />
"I thought they'd send me a leaflet or something like that," he said.
"Six days later, I get a phone call on the undercover phone line. The
guy identified himself as the local leader of the new <a href="http://www.kkk.com/" target="_blank">Ku Klux Klan</a>
chapter in Colorado Springs. He wanted to know why I wanted to become a
Klansman. Thus began my journey into becoming a black Klansman."<br />
The two agreed to meet a week later, but "for obvious reasons, I couldn't meet with him," Stallworth said.<br />
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So Stallworth recruited a
friend in the narcotics division to pose as him during face-to-face
meetings with the Klan leaders. He continued to chat with the Klan
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"These idiots never figured out that they were talking to two different people," he said.<br />
<a href="http://blackklansman.com/" target="_blank">The book</a> also describes Stallworth's relationship with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Duke" target="_blank">David Duke</a>, a
former <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Duke" target="_blank">Grand Wizard</a> of the Ku Klux Klan. At one point, Stallworth was
assigned to help provide security for Duke during a visit to Colorado.<br />
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Stallworth had other brushes with history. He once was assigned to
undercover work monitoring Stokely Carmichael, a charismatic black
activist in the civil rights movement.<br />
He also has written and published books on the correlation between <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangsta_rap" target="_blank">gangster rap</a> music and street gang culture.<br />
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About his 32 years service in law enforcement, Stallworth said he
always wanted to become an undercover police officer, partly because he
hated wearing uniforms.<br />
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"I'm somewhat radical," he said. "I have very little decorum. If I want something I go get it."<br />
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<span class="authorLocation">EL PASO, Texas - </span>He was a police officer who went undercover as a Ku Klux Klan member in the late 1970s. Before his book about the operation is released next week, the man raised in El Paso told <a href="http://www.kvia.com/news/man-raised-in-el-paso-talks-about-undercover-kkk-operation/25353162" target="_blank">ABC-7</a> what it was like.<br />
<a href="http://www.about.me/blackklansman" target="_blank">Sergeant Ron Stallworth</a> is not a man you would expect to be a member of the KKK and before he talks to UTEP students about it on Tuesday, he gave <a href="http://www.kvia.com/news/man-raised-in-el-paso-talks-about-undercover-kkk-operation/25353162" target="_blank">ABC-7</a> a look inside the undercover operation.<br />
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"We prevented three cross burnings in Colorado Springs. How? Because I knew about them. I was invited to participate in them," Stallworth said.<br />
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<a href="http://www.about.me/blackklansman" target="_blank">Stallworth</a> was as member of the KKK during a nine month long police investigation in the late 1970s. He joined by responding to a classified newspaper ad.<br />
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"David Duke processed my application fee, he processed my membership card, he put it in the mail to me," Stallworth described.<br />
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Stallworth was the first black detective and youngest in Colorado Springs Police Department Intelligence Unit.<br />
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"I carry that card in my wallet and I've carried it since 1979 when it was handed to me," Stallworth said.<br />
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His membership was successful by having a white colleague pose during face-to-face meetings. He met Duke, a former grand wizard of the Knights of KKK, face to face but was introduced simply as a detective assigned to be Duke's body guard while he visited Colorado.<br />
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"They're no different than you or I except they have a racial belief ... a belief in the superiority of themselves over anyone that doesn't look like them," Stallworth explained.<br />
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Now that Sgt. Stallworth is retired from a long career in law enforcement, he can talk about infiltrating the KKK and a lesson to younger generations about dealing with people who preach hate.<br />
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"Fight back, challenge them, stand up to them, do not cower in fear," Stallworth said passionately.<br />
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Stallworth's book, <i><a href="http://www.blackklansman.com/" target="_blank">Black Klansman</a></i> comes out April 15. It can be pre-ordered <a href="http://blackklansman.com/" target="_blank">online</a>. There were a couple times he feared for his safety or that he'd be recognized, but ended up working law enforcement in several different states for a total of 32 years.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02263913509702787186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4936785010235662395.post-71924982229578485712014-03-27T09:59:00.000-07:002014-03-27T09:59:10.773-07:00The Story Of This Black Teen Who Protected A White Man From An Angry Mob Continues To Inspire In a world where two men were insensitive enough to dress up as Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman for a Halloween party, and a black college student is arrested at a high-end luxury department store for buying a belt, this teen's story will restore your faith in humanity. <br />
In a series on kindness, the BBC recounted the incredible moment
in 1996 when Keshia Thomas, an 18-year-old at the time, protected a man
believed to be a white supremacist affiliated with the <a href="http://about.me/blackklansman/#" target="_blank">KKK</a> from an
angry mob.<br />
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In June of that year, the <a href="http://about.me/blackklansman/#" target="_blank">Ku Klux Klan</a> held a rally at the city hall
building in Ann Arbor, Mich. The town, whose population is known to be
home to mostly liberals, came out in large numbers to protest the
presence of the notoriously racist group. According to reports 300 anti-clan protestors showed up, while just 17 Klansmen were present. <br />
Thomas was in the crowd of anti-clan protesters, when someone spotted
a man in the crowd amongst them with an SS tattoo and a confederate
flag shirt. The group, including Thomas, immediately chased the man.<br />
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But, in a flash, the crowd went from controlled protestors to an
angry mob, hitting the man with sticks and kicking him as he lay on the
ground. In that moment, Thomas separated herself from the mob and threw
herself on the man to protect him. <br />
"When they dropped him to the ground, it felt like two angels had lifted my body up and laid me down," Thomas said.<br />
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Thomas' act of true altruism was captured by photographer Mark
Brunner in a series of photos, and it still inspires people to this day.
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"She put herself at physical risk to protect someone who, in my
opinion, would not have done the same for her," he said. "Who does that
in this world?"<br />
Even the <a href="http://about.me/blackklansman/#" target="_blank">police assigned to protect the Klan</a> members felt conflicted. A retired police officer, shared his story with Ann Arbor news last year. <br />
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“Behind the faceshield, what bugged me was when the
crowd chanted, <a href="http://www.blackklansman.com/" target="_blank">"The cops and the Klan go hand in hand!"</a> Inside you want
to scream, "No! No! Don't you understand that is completely false? I'm
here because it is my duty to protect all of you." Outwardly you stand,
you say nothing and get ready to duck if necessary.”</blockquote>
Today, Thomas continues to work to make a difference, by doing simple things each and every day. <br />
"The biggest thing you can do is just be kind to another human being.
It can come down to eye contact, or a smile. It doesn't have to be a
huge monumental act."<br />
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Reading came early to me, but I didn’t think of the words as anything special. I don’t think my stepmom thought of what she was doing as more than spending time with me in our small Harlem apartment. From my comfortable perch on her lap I watched as she moved her finger slowly across the page. She probably read at about the third grade level, but that was good enough for the True Romance magazines she read. I didn’t understand what the stories were about, what “bosom” meant or how someone’s heart could be “broken.” To me it was just the comfort of leaning against Mama and imagining the characters and what they were doing.
Opinion: The Apartheid of Children’s Literature <a href="http://www.blackklansman.com/">MARCH 15, 2014</a>
Later, when my sisters brought home comic books, I got Mama to read them to me, too. The magazines and comics pushed me along the road of the imaginative process.<br />
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When I got my first books — “The Little Engine That Could,” “Bible Stories for Every Day,” and “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” — I used them on the same journeys. In the landscape of my mind I labored as hard as I could to get up the hill. I stood on the plain next to David as he fought Goliath, and tasted the porridge with Goldilocks.
As a teenager I romped the forests with Robin Hood, and trembled to the sound of gunfire with Henry in “The Red Badge of Courage.” Later, when Mama’s problems began to overwhelm her, I wrestled with the demons of dealing with one’s mother with Stephen Dedalus in “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.” But by then I was beginning the quest for my own identity. To an extent I found who I was in the books I read. I was a person who felt the drama of great pain and greater joys, whose emotions could soar within the five-act structure of a Shakespearean play, or find quiet comfort in the poems of Gabriela Mistral. Every book was a landscape upon which I was free to wander.
In the dark times, when my uncle was murdered, when my family became dysfunctional with alcohol and grief, or when I realized that our economics would not allow me to go to college, I began to despair. I read voraciously, spending days in Central Park reading when I should have been going to school.
But there was something missing. I needed more than the characters in the Bible to identify with, or even the characters in Arthur Miller’s plays or my beloved Balzac. As I discovered who I was, a black teenager in a white-dominated world, I saw that these characters, these lives, were not mine. I didn’t want to become the “black” representative, or some shining example of diversity. What I wanted, needed really, was to become an integral and valued part of the mosaic that I saw around me.
Books did not become my enemies. They were more like friends with whom I no longer felt comfortable. I stopped reading. I stopped going to school. On my 17th birthday, I joined the Army. In retrospect I see that I had lost the potential person I would become — an odd idea that I could not have articulated at the time, but that seems so clear today.
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My post-Army days became dreadful, a drunken stumble through life, with me holding on just enough to survive. Fueled by the shortest and most meaningful conversation I had ever had in a school hallway, with the one English teacher in my high school, Stuyvesant, who knew I was going to drop out, I began to write short columns for a local tabloid, and racy stories for men’s magazines. Seeing my name in print helped. A little.
Then I read a story by James Baldwin: “Sonny’s Blues.” I didn’t love the story, but I was lifted by it, for it took place in Harlem, and it was a story concerned with black people like those I knew. By humanizing the people who were like me, Baldwin’s story also humanized me. The story gave me a permission that I didn’t know I needed, the permission to write about my own landscape, my own map.
During my only meeting with Baldwin, at City College, I blurted out to him what his story had done for me. “I know exactly what you mean,” he said. “I had to leave Harlem and the United States to search for who I was. Isn’t that a shame?”
When I left Baldwin that day I felt elated that I had met a writer I had so admired, and that we had had a shared experience. But later I realized how much more meaningful it would have been to have known Baldwin’s story at 15, or at 14. Perhaps even younger, before I had started my subconscious quest for identity.
TODAY I am a writer, but I also see myself as something of a landscape artist. I paint pictures of scenes for inner-city youth that are familiar, and I people the scenes with brothers and aunts and friends they all have met. Thousands of young people have come to me saying that they love my books for some reason or the other, but I strongly suspect that what they have found in my pages is the same thing I found in “Sonny’s Blues.” They have been struck by the recognition of themselves in the story, a validation of their existence as human beings, an acknowledgment of their value by someone who understands who they are. It is the shock of recognition at its highest level.
I’ve reached an age at which I find myself not only examining and weighing my life’s work, but thinking about how I will pass the baton so that those things I find important will continue. In 1969, when I first entered the world of writing children’s literature, the field was nearly empty. Children of color were not represented, nor were children from the lower economic classes. Today, when about 40 percent of public school students nationwide are <a href="http://www.blackklansman.com/" target="_blank">black</a> and <a href="http://www.blackklansman.com/" target="_blank">Latino</a>, the disparity of representation is even more egregious. In the middle of the night I ask myself if anyone really cares.
When I was doing research for my book “Monster,” I approached a white lawyer doing pro bono work in the courts defending poor clients. I said that it must be difficult to get witnesses to court to testify on behalf of an inner-city client, and he replied that getting witnesses was not as difficult as it sometimes appeared on television. “The trouble,” he said, “is to humanize my clients in the eyes of a jury. To make them think of this defendant as a human being and not just one of ‘them.’ ”
I realized that this was exactly what I wanted to do when I wrote about poor inner-city children — to make them human in the eyes of readers and, especially, in their own eyes. I need to make them feel as if they are part of America’s dream, that all the rhetoric is meant for them, and that they are wanted in this country.
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The <a href="https://twitter.com/UnavoidableDrud" target="_blank">Unavoidable Drudge</a> team caught up with Ron Stallworth and had some "Do Tell's" which can be heard here <a href="http://theunavoidabledrudge.podomatic.com/" target="_blank">Black Klansman Podcast</a> a picture shows left to right John Flores, Ron Stallworth, and Jason Baron producers and host of the <a href="https://twitter.com/UnavoidableDrud" target="_blank">Unavoidable Drudge </a><br />
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Years ago, I worked in the personnel office for a transformer firm. We needed to hire a chemist, and two candidates stood out, in my mind, for the position. One was a young white man with a degree from St. John’s University and the other an equally qualified black man from Grambling College (now Grambling State University) in Louisiana. I proposed to the department head that we send them both to the lab and let the chief chemist make the final decision. He looked at me as if I had said something so remarkable that he was having a hard time understanding me. “You’re kidding me,” he said. “That black guy’s no chemist.”
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I pointed out the degrees on the résumé that suggested otherwise, and the tension between us soared. When I confronted my superior and demanded to know what about the candidate from Grambling made him not a chemist, he grumbled something under his breath, and reluctantly sent both candidates for an interview with the chief chemist.
Simple<a href="http://www.blackklansman.com/" target="_blank"> racism</a>, I thought. On reflection, though, I understood that I was wrong. It was racism, but not simple racism. My white co-worker had simply never encountered a black chemist before. Or a black engineer. Or a black doctor. I realized that we hired people not so much on their résumés, but rather on our preconceived notions of what the successful candidate should be like. And where was my boss going to get the notion that a chemist should be black?
Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books? Where are the future white personnel managers going to get their ideas of people of color? Where are the future white loan officers and future white politicians going to get their knowledge of people of color? Where are black children going to get a sense of who they are and what they can be?
And what are the books that are being published about blacks? Joe Morton, the actor who starred in “The Brother From Another Planet,” has said that all but a few motion pictures being made about blacks are about blacks as victims. In them, we are always struggling to overcome either <a href="http://www.blackklansman.com/" target="_blank">slavery or racism</a>. Book publishing is little better. <a href="http://www.blackklansman.com/" target="_blank">Black history</a> is usually depicted as folklore about slavery, and then a fast-forward to the civil rights movement. Then I’m told that black children, and boys in particular, don’t read. Small wonder.
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02263913509702787186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4936785010235662395.post-73883465533831210532014-03-12T10:44:00.000-07:002014-03-12T10:50:19.795-07:00Black Sergeant was "loyal Klansman" In an Article with <a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/635175667/Black-sergeant-was-loyal-Klansman.html">"Desert News"</a> written by Deborah Buckley titled <a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/635175667/Black-sergeant-was-loyal-Klansman.html" target="_blank">Black sergeant was 'loyal Klansman'</a>
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About 25 years ago, Ron Stallworth was asked to lead the <a href="http://www.kkk.com/" target="_blank">Ku Klux Klan</a> chapter in Colorado Springs.<br />
Problem was, the outgoing Klan leader didn't know that <a href="http://www.blackklansman.com/" target="_blank">Sgt. Ron Stallworth, Ret.</a> is black.<br />
"He asked me to take over the lead because I was a good, loyal Klansman," said Stallworth, who had been in constant phone contact with the Klan leader while leading a yearlong Colorado Springs police investigation into the Klan.<br />
Stallworth later moved to Utah, where he recently retired after nearly 20 years as an investigator for the <a href="http://publicsafety.utah.gov/" target="_blank">Utah Department of Public Safety</a>. He says he's amazed that no one ever caught on to the investigation he led starting in 1979. After he was offered Klan leadership, he quietly disappeared.<br />
As a memento Stallworth still carries his Klan membership card — signed by <a href="http://davidduke.com/" target="_blank">David Duke</a>.<br />
"It was one of the most fun" investigations, he said. "Everybody said it couldn't be done."<br />
Stallworth communicated with Klan leaders using the telephone. A white officer posing as Stallworth went to the meetings.<br />
"The challenge for me was to maintain the conversation flow," Stallworth said. At the same time, Stallworth also led an undercover investigation into the <a href="http://www.plp.org/" target="_blank">Progressive Labor Party</a>, a communist group that protested at Klan rallies.<br />
Stallworth, of Layton, worked 30 years in law enforcement in four states. Stallworth's undercover experience and research led him to become a nationally known expert on gang culture.<br />
He calls the Klan investigation "one of the most significant investigations I was ever involved in because of the scope and the magnitude of how it unfolded."<br />
The investigation revealed that Klan members were in the military, including two at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NORAD_(disambiguation)" target="_blank">NORAD</a> who controlled the triggers for nuclear weapons.<br />
"I was told they were being reassigned to somewhere like the North Pole or Greenland," Stallworth said.<br />
The Klan investigation isn't the only time Stallworth has been mistaken for a white guy.<br />
He's been contacted by academics about his "scholarly research" on gangs. One such academic "said he was so impressed that a white Mormon in Utah could write such an impressive work on black gang culture."<br />
Stallworth said he laughed and explained that not only is he not white or Mormon, he started his college career in 1971 and remains about 2 1/2 years shy of his bachelor's degree.<br />
Stallworth started to work on gang activity for the Utah Department of Public Safety in the late 1980s. He wrote a report that led to the formation of Utah's first gang task force — the <a href="http://orem.org/index.php/police/utah-county-major-crimes-task-force" target="_blank">Gang Narcotics Intelligence Unit</a> that involved the Utah Division of Investigation and the <a href="http://slcpd.com/" target="_blank">Salt Lake City Police Department</a>.<br />
"Based on what was going on at the time, I knew about the L.A. gang problem," he said. Utah gang suspects were "telling us they were Crips from California."<br />
Stallworth said of his work in Utah, it's his investigation of gangs that he's most proud of.<br />
"It's had a lasting impact, first and foremost, on law enforcement," he said.<br />
Wes McBride, president of the California Gang Investigators Association and retired from the <a href="http://sheriff.lacounty.gov/wps/portal/lasd" target="_blank">Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department</a>, said about 15 years ago he "heard about this guy in Salt Lake who was becoming an expert" in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangsta_rap" target="_blank">gangsta rap</a> music. So, he invited Stallworth to speak on the topic. It was the first of a series of lectures Stallworth gave on street-gang culture.<br />
"I don't know that any of us ever listened to it," McBride said. "Where he was instrumental with us was pointing out to listen to the words, to listen to what these gangsters were saying."<br />
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It seems like things haven't changed much. Sgt. Ron Stallworth, Ret. newest book "The Black Klansman" some excerpts I would like to share<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.blackklansman.com/" target="_blank">“I hate niggers, Jews, Mexicans, spics,chinks, and anyone else that does not have pure white Aryan blood in theirveins...” sound familiar</a></span><br />
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Like a delay of game or a personal foul, NFL players may face a penalty – which could range from a 15-yard setback to an ejection from the game – for using the N-word on the field, per a proposal the NFL is reportedly considering. The rule, which is being pushed by the NFL diversity organization the Fritz Pollard Alliance, <span class="apple-converted-space">by the </span>NFL's competition committee and could be enacted as early as next month's owners meeting.<br />
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The <a href="http://www.blackklansman.com/" target="_blank">N-word</a> is one of the most problematic, loaded and volatile words in the English language. It is deeply embedded in America’s slave history and continued discrimination of African-Americans. While now deemed incredibly offensive in most contexts, pockets of the black community, particularly in hip-hop, have complicated its meaning by taking ownership of it. Attempts at censorship have come with their own issues, be it removing the word <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/huckleberry-finn-and-the-n-word/" title="Link: http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/huckleberry-finn-and-the-n-word/">from editions of “Huckleberry Finn” </a>to debates over its use in the recent film “<a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jan/03/entertainment/la-et-mn-django-unchained-controversy-20130102" title="Link: http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jan/03/entertainment/la-et-mn-django-unchained-controversy-20130102">Django Unchained</a>.” <br />
While the proposal has gotten the support of everyone from <a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/10515628/whitlock-nfl-ban-n-word" title="Link: http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/10515628/whitlock-nfl-ban-n-word">sports commentators</a> to <a href="http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/24455485/ryan-clark-dan-rooney-wanted-n-word-out-of-steelers-locker-room," title="Link: http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/24455485/ryan-clark-dan-rooney-wanted-n-word-out-of-steelers-locker-room,">team chairmen</a>, it also has arisen doubts,<a href="http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/24456886/clay-matthews-thinks-it-will-be-tough-to-enforce-n-word-penalty" title="Link: http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/24456886/clay-matthews-thinks-it-will-be-tough-to-enforce-n-word-penalty"> including from Packers player Clay Matthews</a>, who questioned the logistics of the rule. <br />
[<b><a href="http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/01/30/senators-seek-to-punt-nfls-tax-exempt-status">READ:</a></b><a href="http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/01/30/senators-seek-to-punt-nfls-tax-exempt-status" title="Link: //www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/01/30/senators-seek-to-punt-nfls-tax-exempt-status"> Senators Seek to Punt NFL's Tax-Exempt Status</a>]<br />
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Recent incidents have brought the N-word to the forefront of conversations about race and the culture of professional football. Last fall, Miami Dolphins player Richie Incognito, who is white, was suspended for harassing his African-American teammate, Jonathan Martin, in actions that included using the N-word on a voice mail he left Martin.<br />
Also last fall, an NFL official was suspended for using vulgar language to respond, <a href="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/umpire-suspended-profanity-redskins-player" title="Link: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/umpire-suspended-profanity-redskins-player">according to some</a>, to a player’s own use of the <a href="http://www.blackklansman.com/" target="_blank">N-word</a>. The referees union – the National Football League Referees Association – called the official’s punishment a “double standard.”<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/football-insider/wp/2013/11/22/nfl-referee-association-denounces-leagues-suspension-of-roy-ellison/" title="Link: null"> In a statement, it said:</a><br />
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"Apparently the NFL accepts and condones a culture where players, coaches and teams can use racial slurs and profanity toward each other and at Officials. Music played in locker rooms and in the stadiums before games include racial slurs (including the “N” word) and references to sexual violence with impunity. These types of cheap slurs and racial banter on the field often lead to angry and emotional responses which can result in fighting and injury."</div>
In a sense, the proposal being considered is an attempt to correct at least some of that double standard by giving officials the ability to punish players for using the N-word and other slurs. “At a workplace environment there has to be mutual respect,” says Cyrus Mehri, counsel for the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Fritz Pollard Alliance, emphasizing the distinction between the language used in a workplace and in creative expressions. “We are asking the league to take control of the game on the 100-yard field.”<br />
[<b><a href="http://www.usnews.com/opinion/economic-intelligence/2014/02/24/fcc-sports-blackout-rules-hurt-american-cable-viewers">ALSO:</a></b><a href="http://www.usnews.com/opinion/economic-intelligence/2014/02/24/fcc-sports-blackout-rules-hurt-american-cable-viewers"> FCC's Blackout Rules Hurt American Cable Viewers</a>]<br />
The field may be where all the cameras are, but for NFL players, the workplace extends to locker rooms, training camps and conversations between players, coaches and team assistants. And while Mehri says for now his organization is focusing on the on-the-field penalty, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" title="Link: null">its chairman, </a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" title="Link: null">John Wooten, </a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" title="Link: null">told CBS Sports</a>, “We want this word to be policed from the parking lot to the equipment room to the locker room … we want it eliminated completely and want it policed everywhere.” But the Incognito controversy was regarded as a rare glimpse of NFL culture off-camera and behind the scenes, where players have suggested racial and homophobic slurs have different meanings than in everyday life. In the wake of the stir over Incognito's comments, <a href="http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/richie-incognito-2013-11/" title="Link: http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/richie-incognito-2013-11/">former NFLer Nate Jackson wrote for New York magazine:</a><br />
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"Out in society, the word nigger still excites and appalls, and a white man who is unlucky enough to utter it, even in jest, is forever labeled a racist. But inside an NFL locker room, the meaning of the word has washed out. There are white men who are so close to their black brothers that their lexicon is identical, and they communicate with the same phrases, jokes, and nicknames."</div>
Mark Anthony Neal, a Duke University Department of African and African American Studies professor<span class="apple-converted-space"> who has written about the <a href="http://www.blackklansman.com/" target="_blank">N-word</a></span>, agrees with the idea that, as a workplace, the N-word shouldn’t be used on the field. But he also sees this as a branding issue for the NFL.<br />
“You don’t have black players running around complaining about there is too much use of the N-word in the locker room,” he says, noting that the proposal is coming at a time when there has been <a href="http://deadspin.com/what-espn-and-the-nfl-dont-talk-about-when-they-talk-a-1529286618" title="Link: null">much discussion</a> about the fluidity of the word's meaning. “For centuries it was used in a context where we understood its context and its meaning. No one was interested in legislating it at that time.”<br />
[<b><a href="http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/susan-milligan/2014/02/11/the-cowardly-reaction-to-michael-sam-coming-out">OPINION:</a></b><a href="http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/susan-milligan/2014/02/11/the-cowardly-reaction-to-michael-sam-coming-out" title="Link: //www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/susan-milligan/2014/02/11/the-cowardly-reaction-to-michael-sam-coming-out"> The Cowardly Reaction to Michael Sam Coming Out</a>]<br />
The rule also<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dc-sports-bog/wp/2014/02/25/michael-wilbon-on-redskins-and-the-n-word/" title="Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dc-sports-bog/wp/2014/02/25/michael-wilbon-on-redskins-and-the-n-word/"> touches the current controversy </a>over the name of the team in Washington, D.C. – the Redskins – which owner Dan Snyder says he will not change, even though many find it offensive to Native Americans.<br />
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Some background on the <a href="http://www.blackklansman.com/" target="_blank">Black Klansman</a><br />
<span class="color_11"><a href="http://www.blackklansman.com/" target="_blank">"For many, hate is considered the worst of any four-letter word, and throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, there were few names so synonymous with hate as the Klan. Even today, factions of the Ku Klux Klan still exist"</a></span><br />
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There is some precedent elsewhere in professional sports when it comes to penalizing offensive language.<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2011/SPORT/04/13/bryant.nba.fine/index.html" title="Link: http://www.cnn.com/2011/SPORT/04/13/bryant.nba.fine/index.html"> In 2011, Kobe Bryant was fined $100,000 </a>for calling a referee an anti-gay slur during a game. (Ravens general manager Ozzie Newsome, who is on the NFL competition committee, <a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/10500657/nfl-expected-penalize-players-using-racial-slurs-games" title="Link: http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/10500657/nfl-expected-penalize-players-using-racial-slurs-games">said </a>that the members discussed including homophobic language in the NFL rule.)<br />
Mehri says he is feeling “bullish” about the proposal’s chance of passage in the coming weeks, though that sentiment stems from his past experiences working with the NFL, not from any specific conversations he’s had with the committee members. He also says it will be up to the league to work out the details of how it would be enforced and to which contexts it would apply, and up to officials to make those judgment calls.</div>
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</span>I was able to “sting” (con) the local Organizer of the Colorado Springs
chapter of the <a href="http://www.kkk.com/" target="_blank">KKK</a>, the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan_titles_and_vocabulary" target="_blank">Grand Dragon</a> </i>(equivalent
to a state leader) for the Colorado Klan, and <a href="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/david-duke-kkk-italy-expelled-belluno-republican-527842" target="_blank">David Duke</a> who, at <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span>He was based in the New Orleans, Louisiana area, and held the title of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Wizard" target="_blank">Grand Wizard</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>They all believed I was to quote David
Duke “…an intelligent white man….” and, as a result, I was able to gain their
trust and subsequently obtain membership into their faction of the Klan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So successful was the “sting” that the Grand
Dragon sought my advice on a couple of decisions concerning him and the
Colorado Springs chapter and the Local Organizer,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a Specialist 5 in the Army who was in the
process of being discharged, avidly put my name up to the chapter membership
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“I hate niggers, Jews, Mexicans, spics,
chinks, and anyone else that does not have pure white Aryan blood in their
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</span>That was my answer to the voice on the other end of the telephone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The “<a href="http://voices.yahoo.com/the-beliefs-practices-ku-klux-klan-kkk-7045916.html" target="_blank">voice</a>” had identified himself as the
Local Organizer of the new Colorado Springs chapter of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan" target="_blank">Ku Klux Klan</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had inquired about membership and was being
recruited via this phone call.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The voice
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</span>I continued, “…My sister was recently involved with a nigger and every
time I think about him putting his filthy black hands on her pure white body I
get disgusted and sick to my stomach.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
want to join the Klan so I can stop future abuse of the white race.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thus began, perhaps, the most
interesting and unique chapter in my 32-year police career, eight years
(1972-1980) of which were spent with the <a href="http://www.springsgov.com/SectionIndex.aspx?SectionID=12" target="_blank">Colorado Springs PoliceDepartment</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was a detective—the first
(and at that time the only) Black detective in the history of the CSPD—assigned
to the Intelligence Unit. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, I said
Black detective.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is what made this
an interesting and unique experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I,
a BLACK American </span><br />
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<strong>Black History Month</strong>, also known as <b>African-American History Month</b> in America, is an annual observance in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom for remembrance of important people and events in the history of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_diaspora" title="African diaspora">African diaspora</a>. It is celebrated annually in the United States<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Scott_1-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_History_Month#cite_note-Scott-1">[1]</a></sup> and Canada<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-AboutCIC_2-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_History_Month#cite_note-AboutCIC-2">[2]</a></sup> in February and the United Kingdom<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-BHMUK_3-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_History_Month#cite_note-BHMUK-3">[3]</a></sup> in October.<br />
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