R. Derek Black > Quotes

“Antiracism is the more difficult sell because it asks that we change”
― R. Derek Black, The Klansman’s Son: My Journey from White Nationalism to Antiracism: A Memoir

“joked with White nationalists at conference after-parties about how funny it was that all it took to get our message out was to embrace their horror.”
― R. Derek Black, The Klansman’s Son: My Journey from White Nationalism to Antiracism: A Memoir

“They are all the same movement”
― R. Derek Black, The Klansman’s Son: My Journey from White Nationalism to Antiracism: A Memoir

“They’re too late to take anything from us.”
― R. Derek Black, The Klansman’s Son: My Journey from White Nationalism to Antiracism: A Memoir

“No matter how much my family tried to adopt the language of persecution for White people broadly”
― R. Derek Black, The Klansman’s Son: My Journey from White Nationalism to Antiracism: A Memoir

“Racism should have been intuitively wrong.”
― R. Derek Black, The Klansman’s Son: My Journey from White Nationalism to Antiracism: A Memoir

“This distinction between individuals and groups was a lifeline I had rationalized for myself.”
― R. Derek Black, The Klansman’s Son: My Journey from White Nationalism to Antiracism: A Memoir