they may try to destroy us, but the ku klux klan has been here for 150 years. years. let's go. white power! >> white power! ♪ >> i realize this new klan isn't as powerful as the old klan. but there is an undeniable power to this image that is even more undeniable when you see it up close. i actually feel lucky. unlike most of the black people in the history of this country who have been present for a cross burning, i get to leave. >>> we're all going to die. didn't mean to remind you of it, but it is on your schedule. >> we find the loss of comedians so profound because we had fun with them, and they were in our home. >> she'd make you feel that you had a special place in her heart. >> laughing with somebody binds you to them. >> comedians don't have a great mortality rate. we lose a lot of people. >> when you lose a comedian, i feel it's more personal because i know the [ bleep ]. ♪ ♪

figure, ron stallworth, black police detective who infiltrated the white supremacist group the ku klux klann colorado springs in the 1970's. he did it by striking up a relationship with klan members by phone, and then ate circuit police officer, a colleague, stood in for him in face-to-faceeetings. spike lee was drawn to the story for many reasons. he was certainly impressed by him as aan. spike: courageous, heroic. i mean, the klan don't play. theykilled people, murdered people, which are acts of terrotesm. homegroworism. to do that back in the 1970's, i mean, it was no picnic. >> grand wizard of the ku klux klan -- that david duke? k tom: a kn member the film isin former grand wizard david duke. >> america first. america first. tom: duke is heard using words that president trump also uttered. throughout lee's film, there a b connections made with events in the 1970's and the present day, most notably when it transitions from a fictional ku klux klan rally in the past to the very re protest in charlottesville a ye when white supremacist groups clash violently wi counterdemonstrators. it wa

k to do that b the 1970's, i mean, it was no picnicnd >> gra wizard of the ku klux klan -- that daviduke? tom: a key klan member the film isar former grand wdavid duke. >> america first. america first. tom: duke is heard using words that president trump also uttere throughout lee's film, there are connections to be made with events in the 1970's and the present day, most notably when it transitions from a fictional x klan rally in the past to the very real protest in charlottesville a year ago when white supremact groups clash violently with counterdemonstrato. it was a day that resulted in the death of heather heyer, struck down when a car drove into a crowd. spike: there are many things we d in the film that we wanted to remind people that this is not just a period piece. i whaw that, an american homegrown act of terrorism, i knew that would be the coda for this film. e power to the people. >> power to all ople. >> all power to all the people. tom: the film makes the case that the overt racism espoused by the ku klux klan in 1976 os is still flourishing today, nd that president trum

black police officer who in i970s joins the police force and he decides to try to infiltrate the ku klux klansays i am a white supremacist and i want to join the ku klux klan, they believe him, and he works himself right up to the grand wizard. and he works himself right up to the grand wiza rd. they and he works himself right up to the grand wizard. they have to get someone grand wizard. they have to get someone else to go in as him, so what they do is they get his partner to go in, and he says i will do the voice on the phone, you do it in person. they have initially very different attitudes to the case, here's a look. i am risking my life to stop some rednecks and setting a couple of set on fire... that is the job, what is the problem. that is the problem. the media is a job, for you it is personal. it is not personal, nor should it be. why aren't you buying into this? what do some light—skinned —— that is what some light—skinned —— that is what some light—skinned —— that is what some light—skinned black folks do, they passed the white.” some light—skinned black folks do, they passed the w

the times of gap former ku klux klan that wizard praised jeremy corbyn victory. made to go back to 2015, so explain the civilians to me now. the significance of the story is that whenjeremy significance of the story is that when jeremy corbyn significance of the story is that whenjeremy corbyn was a lot of violence and delete the former leader of the ku klux klan, extremely racist anti—semitic group in the us, said that this was evidence that people were coming to understand the threat, as the sole, posed by zionism. now, iam no fan ofjeremy corbyn and i have criticised him for many things. but to suggest thatjeremy corbyn is somehow if —— at fall because of a leader of the ku klux klan decided to celebrate his victory is stretching things way beyond what is equitable. this is basically a smear. do you agree? what we have seenis smear. do you agree? what we have seen isa smear. do you agree? what we have seen is a very good investigative stuff that has been done that has for the problem to jeremy corbyn's door buzzer but i do agree with lance there, you could cri

>> this is david duke. >> grand wizard of the ku klux klan that david duke?> director spike lee knew it was not a story locked in the past. understand that history repeats itself and i feel we're at a time that stuff doesn't just jump out of nowhere. >> the real ron starworth is retired but in 1978 he was an undercover detective, the first african american cop on the colorado springs police. >> you see an ad to join the kkk? >> it said ku klux klan for information and a p.o. box. what the heck? i wrote a note to the p.o. box. >> saying what? >> i said my mouth to god's ears i really hate those black rats and anyone else that really doesn't have pure white arian blood running through their veins. >> the language of hate. >> they loved it, right? >> they loved it. >> before long ron starworth was a card-carrying member of the kkk. he built a relationship with a klansman over the phone and a white officer handled the personal meetings. >> was a part of you that was almost laughing on the inside you were playing those guys? >> throughout the whole investigation.

and as depicted in the movie, buddies up to unsuspecting david duke, then grand wizard of the ku klux klanoday we are privileged to be among white men and white women. >> action. >> reporter: in his unapologetic and about as subtle as a shotgun style, lee links america's ugly past with race to her uncomfortable present. >> the whole goal going in was connect this film that takes place in the '70s with what's happening today. and agent orange, david duke, and the neo-nazis gave me a coda. >> you're referring to? >> the president of the united states. >> president trump? >> i call him agent orange. >> i want to thank you so much for never putting your country second. >> that's right. >> america first. >> reporter: some of the language in the film seems to be lifted from today's political rhetoric. >> from this day forward, it's going to be only america first. america first. >> reporter: this film directly takes on president trump and his initial refusal to renounce hate groups. >> i think there's blame on both sides. and i have no doubt about it, and you don't have any doubt about it either.

and until they actually ban the ku klux klan and other organizations that are offshoots of the ku kluxcan be members of these organizations. now, how far are they allowed to go in their rhetoric? if they threaten human life, that's a different story. >> and tom, we're not seeing a lot of numbers, though, that are deciding to do what you just described, gloria, stand up and participate as a protester with a white nationalist. >> with charlottesville last year, the man who has been indicted and charged with murder and federal hate crimes, he was on social media, you know, expressing these pro nazi, you know, pro white sort of views. and no one knew who he was. his family was aware, his teachers were aware, his friends were aware. and the numbers weren't necessarily outrageous last year in charlottesville. so it just took that time on social media for this young man, james alex fields, to develop this sort of belief system, and show up and cause harm. and, you know -- i think that's important. i had a chance in early july to go down to charlottesville and talk to the new police chief ther

house and we were here to talk to them and a lot of these folks who came out to do to counter the ku klux klan to counter the white nationalist a lot of them had different ideas some of them buy into this idea that russia is responsible for divisions in the usa but others do not i think the source of the division is there's always some hatred deep inside in some percentage of people i think. the source of it is just some of it is natural i think unfortunately going to give it a platform to let it expand it kind i think it can get easily out of hand so you buy in the idea that it's russia's falls that the people having the rally over there is somehow the fault of russia russian bought tacker facebook yet not even a little and why do you think that's so big in the mainstream media why are they pushing that so hard. that's a good question i don't know i think it kind of it's comforting to hear that this is russia's fault and not something that's been the wrong with america since the foundation of this country it's nice to say it's russia's fault go and it's trumps fault and that once trump is gon

lots of different forces here lots of different causes represented all of them denouncing the ku klux klan white supremacy ism so quite a diverse crowd out here so far we have not heard any reports of any by. and there anyone being injured huge police presence we are hearing the sound of police helicopters above there are lots of police standing in front of the white supremacy there are there are lots of police elsewhere around the city of the city is on lockdown largely with the natural on a special schedule so situation is tense a lot of anger here a lot of people chanting anger at the white supremacists but as of yet we have not seen any any violence or people hurting each other now the anti fox crowd has come decked out in body armor gas masks almost as if they're ready for a fight but no fights as of yet have broken out ok giving his sense of what's happening on the ground there near the wife's heist in washington d.c. this hour. well this week washington announced it will impose new sanctions against russia over the poisoning of former russian double agent service kripalani his daugh

. —— ku klux klan. this is the head of the ku klux klan who made this comment in 2015. the labour party by a landslide, the former head of the ku klux klan, which is the white racist supremacist american organisation, read into that that he saw this as evidence people were waking up to what he perceived to be the threat of zionism and effectively the jews. the implication in the wake of all the other stories around anti—semitism in the labour party is somehow this reflects on jeremy corbyn. i'm no fan ofjeremy corbyn, and i've criticised him many times on many things, and would criticise his stance on the anti—semitism debate and his failure to show leadership over it, but the fact somebody else draws implications from his election in that way is no reflection on him whatsoever and this is effectively a smear story. when you were saying this is a way for the times to keep the long—running anti—semitism story surrounding the labour party that's not away taking over? all the papers are trying to do that and there's not necessarily anything wrong with that because the cris

>> no, i have friends that are black. >> reporter: but you're an imperial wizard of a ku klux klan groupthe klan has a history of terrorizing black folks. how can you say that? >> some klans did have a history of terrorizing black folks, but not all klans did. i've never terrorized a black person in my life. >> reporter: why not join the kiwanis club? why not call it something different? >> because i want to see the klan become what it once was. >> reporter: rereferences, this the second rising of the klan, when thousands marched through washington in 1925. >> at that time, that march was about the fact that our country was allowing immigrants to come here, change their names with no documentation. nobody cared. >> reporter: he fails to mention it was also about keeping blacks, jews, and immigrants from rising socially or politically, but he says his klan is different. >> it's not about a black man, a white man, a brown man, a red man, or a yellow man. it's about red, white, and blue. >> reporter: preston is still awaiting sentencing in charlottesville. while he waits, something remarkab

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bit and director spike lee is back with a tense but often funny thing about the ku klux klan. band play. calling a very warm welcome to you i'm on the. the united nations is calling for a prompt and independent investigation into an attack in yemen in which a police twenty nine children were killed the airstrike by the saudi led military alliance hit a school bus apparently taken pupils to summer camp a saudi spokesman says it was part of legitimate military action in its battle against who see rebels in yemen but the attackers come in for strong international criticism. this is yemen doctors desperately fighting for the lives of children the school bus hit by an aerial strike. eyewitnesses say that they were on their way to a school summer camp. where. the devastation of the blasts showing just how powerful the strike was awful a lot about what's the stroke the attack happened in the middle of the market and was aimed at the bus full of children. and our shops were open and people were going about their daily lives on many of those who died were just local kids and shop owner

grand wizard of the ku klux klan? what can ido wizard of the ku klux klan? what can i do for you? trying to persuade racist colleagues as well, that they need to bring down the plan. and the language that john washington needs to use when he impersonates the ku klux klan, it is quite harsh. how did you deal with having to say those words? be that character? he is undercover. in fa ct, character? he is undercover. in fact, there is a scene where he is holding the phone and everybody is laughing, so there is humour in the film. and as people, especially white audience members, are looking around, like, is it ok to laugh? but they can laugh. ijust want around, like, is it ok to laugh? but they can laugh. i just want them around, like, is it ok to laugh? but they can laugh. ijust want them to laugh at the end of the movie. they can laugh. ijust want them to laugh at the end of the movielj find it interesting that he says david duke could never be elected to president. that line made me laugh. we put a whole lot of things like that in the film. my co—writer that automatically had peopl

but you're an imperial wizard of the ku klux klan group. the klan has a history of terrorizing black folks, how can you say that? some klans had a history of terrorizing black folks but not all did. >> why not call it something different, why the ku klux klan? >> i want to see the klan become what it once was. at that time that march was about the fact that our country was allowing immigrants to come here, change their names and no documentation. >> he fails to mention it was also about keeping blacks, jews, and immigrants from rising socially or politically. but he says his klan is different. >> it's not about a black man, brown man, red man, or yellow man. it's about blood. >> while he waits something remarkable is happening because of this man. r&b musician darrel davis has spent decades engaging with klan members and challenging their beliefs. they have talked for years via phone and suddenly davis was standing up for preston in court. >> what did you say to the judge? >> i testified on his behalf. i also paid for his bail to get him out

ku klux klan flyers are showing up in the bay area. specifically in solano county.nd recruitment flyers in their driveways. kron4's gayle ong talked with neighbors. ths is one of the areas the flyers were found.to make things more unusual - they were packaged inside a plastic ziploc bag full of raw rice. the ku klux klan recruitment flyers were left on driveways here in suisun citya very bizarre discovery in a racially mixed neighborhoodsot sotresidents say they saw a truck pass through friday night and found the bags saturdaysotthe flyers showed up in a plastic bag filled with riceurging people to call a number in north carolina.. among those who received the message - kyle atalig's (atalic) family it also made it's way through the mayor's neighborhood - sotsuisun city police say there is no evidence of any specific crime related to the flyersand calls them disappointing and unnecessary sotpolice believe whoever left the flyers was passing through the detective on this case here insists there is no local klan activity in this town.here in suisun city, gayle ong kro

why the ku klux klan? i want to see the klan be what it once was. >> reporter: the second rising of the klan when thousands marched through washington in 1925. >> at that time that march was about the fact our country was allowing immigrants to come here, change their names with no documentation, and if your name was schwartzkoffer you come here and call yourself schwartz and nobody cares he says his klan is different. >> not about what color you are. it's about a red, white and blue. >> reporter: preston is still awaiting sentencing in charlottesville. while he waits, something remarkable has happened because of this man. r&b musician daryl davis has spent decades engaging with klan members and challenging their beliefs and he and preston have talked for years by phone and suddenly davis was standing up for preston in judge. what did you say to the judge? >> i testified on his part and paid part of his bail money. >> reporter: you paid part of his bail money? >> i did. >> reporter: is he taking for you a

reporter: he said he went to protect the statue of, but also wears the hat of that a member of ku klux klanhate black people in. >> i have friends that are black. >> reporter: but you're an imperial wizard of a ku klux klan group and the klan has a history of terrorizing black folks. how can you say that? >> some klans did have a history, but not all klans did, and i've never terrorized a black person in my life. >> reporter: he referenced this, the second rising of the klan when thousands marched to washington in 1925. >> at that time that march was about the fact our country is allowing immigrants to come here, change their names with no documentation. if your name was schwartz coffee, you'd call yourself schwartz, and nobody cared. >> reporter: and he said it was about keeping blacks and immigrants from socially rising but he says now it's different. >> it's about red, white or blue. >> reporter: he's still awaiting sentencing in charlottesville. while he waits something remarkable is happening because of this man. r & b musician has engaged in decades, and suddenly davis was standing up

ku klux klan flyers are showing up in the bay area. specifically in solano county.people in one neighborhood found recruitment flyers in their driveways. kron4's gayle ong was in suisun city and talked with neighbors. ths is one of the areas the flyers were found.to make things found. ( james ) an alaska airlines plane that left san francisco had to make an emergency landing in los angeles. the flight was headed to new orleans with 136 people on board. the flight crew detected a strong odor in the cabin and diverted to los angeles. the plane landed safely and no one was hurt. it is still unclear where that smell came from. passengers were booked on other flights. ( james ) happening today... tehre will be a ribbon cutting for the new 2 billion dollar transbay transit center in downtown san francisco. kron 4's ella sogomonian takes a look at what you need to know for this morning's commute. hard to believe this is a transit center ... with a 5 and a half acre park on the top floor with views of the city ... but -- it is!nside this one million square foot center -- th

again rhetoric is really the same talking points that groups like the ku klux klan and the national socialist movement have been using for years so as much as he may say all the wise the policies that he enacts would should include atrocious things like deporting ten year old girls in the hospital who are there for surgery back to mexico that that's the kind of stuff that it's a promise like to see and i think that they really believe they have an ally in the why those so do you think trump has a thing for those kind of groups i mean he refused to specifically shame they white supremacists for the violence in charlottesville where an anti rashness protester was killed media to get that last trump supporting the far right do you see that way as well. or is a lot of file facts to say that while adjusting for one president drones actions he is very quick to condemn football players for peacefully protesting and he calls them sons of bitches and says they should be fired like within hours of them protesting what was going on season ku klux klan members are marching under swastikas in an american

events in the 1970s and the present—day, most notably when the film transition from a fictional ku klux klanotest in charlottesville a year ago, when white supremacist groups clashed violently with counterdemonstrators. it was a day that resulted in the death of heather heyer, struck down when a car drove into a crowd. the film is quite provocative in a way, do you feel it could really entrench people in terms of their opinions rather than bringing about enlightenment? i've done my part and we'll see how the world sees it. this film is about today, and we live in a very, very serious time in this world. many people who've seen the film felt this was just about the united states of america, this is about the global rising of the right, notjust the united states of america. spike lee's film marks a triumph for him as a director. it's seen as his best movie in years, and his first picture in a while to have become part of the cultural conversation. stallworth brothers. we're on a roll, baby! with critically acclaimed films like blackkklansman and megahits like black panther, it's been a notewor

grand wizard of the ku klux klan. that david duke? >> god. last time i checked. you asked, i hate blacks. i hate jews. mexicans and irish. italians and chinese. but my mouth to god's ears, i really hate those black rats. and anyone else really that doesn't have pure white aryan blood running through their veins. >> i'm happy to be talking to the true white america. >> god bless white america. >> that was a scene from director spike lee's new film, "blackkklansman" out today purposely released one year after charlottesville's race riry ri riot. a true story of a black colorado springs police officer who successfully infiltrated the kkk. that officer would go on to strike up a relationship -- so joining me the man that portrays duke in the film, a pleasure. and congratulations on this film. >> thank you. thanks for having me. >> you have been acting for quite a while. a lot of roles. the grand wizard of the kkk. did it take you a minute to say yes? and once you did say yes, tell me why. >> well, i asked to do it so it wasn't like someone asked me. i kind of hunted

figure, ron stallworth, a black police detective who infiltrated the white supremacist group the ku klux klangs in the 19705. he did it by striking up a relationship with klan members by phone, then a white surrogate police officer, a colleague, stood in for him in face—to—face meetings. ron stallworth was modest about his accomplishments at the film's new york premiere. infiltrating the group, penetrating them was very easy because they didn't take time to recognise the signs that something was not right. you had two different voices talking to you, one in person, one on the phone, and they didn't recognise that they were being had. it wasn't difficult at all. you for the white race, ron? oh, hell, yeah. so it becomes a combined... both: ron stallworth. can you do that? with the right white man, you can do anything. spike lee was drawn to ron stallworth's story for many reasons, he was certainly impressed by him as a man. courageous, heroic. i mean, the klan don't play, they kill people, they murder people, which are acts of terrorism. homegrown terrorism. so, to do that back in the ‘705...

. >> ...any doctrinaire, militant minority, whether communist, ku klux klan, or birchers. >> chae: androphone and they'd subside, and then he'd get up and he'd art to open his mouth, and they'd start again. and he couldn't talk. it went on for over 15 minutes. >> ...wholly alien to the sound and honest republican t liberalit has kept this party abreast of -- [ audience booing ] human need. >> buchanan: the forces that could nominate goldwater from the south and west were tearing thepu ican party away from the republican eastern establhment forever, and they could sense that. >> let me get to the mic. >> you give it to 'em. it's your job! >> now, look! the governor hasn't had a chance to talk. he's been up here 10 minutes, and he hasn't a chance to talk but about four minutes. i >> buchanan: ahink they believed that when goldwater en that fever will pass, and we will t our party back. and they never got it back. >> man: back in july in san francisco, the republicans held a convention. remember him? he was there. governor rockefeller. before the convention,ry he said, boldwater's positio

gay rhetoric is really the same talking points that groups like the ku klux klan and the national socialist movement have been using for years so as much as he may say all the wise the policies that he. would should include atrocious things like deporting ten year old girls in the hospital who are there for surgery back to mexico that's the kind of stuff it's a promise like to see. think that they really believe they have an ally in the why those but it so do you think trump has a thing for those kind of groups i mean he refused to specifically shame they white supremacists for the violence in charlottesville where an anti rastus protester was killed media that asked trump supporting the far right do you see that way as well . or is a lot of file facts just say that while adjusting for one president drones actions he is very quick to condemn football players for peacefully protesting and he calls them sons of bitches and says they should be fired like within hours of them protesting what was going on season ku klux klan members are marching under sloss that goes in an american city and some

we will have more on the flyers trying to recruit people to join the ku klux klan in the search for theerson or persons responsible. 's with the new salesforce transit center is up and running. it is $82.25 billion project years in the making. alyssa harrington tells us commuters are giving the new addition two thumbs up. >> reporter: riders i talked to are excited. they love how the new transit center looks. it is quite big. it stretches four city blocks so some people feel a little overwhelmed. this is where the transit workers come in handy. there stationed all over the new transit center and are handing out maps and schedules and are directing people where they need to go. here is what some riders i talked to had to say. >> i love it. it is almost the feeling of the airport, the san francisco airports or oakland airport. that type of a feeling. it is great and clean but i'm hoping it will stay clean. it is a little overwhelming. >> reporter: it is comfortable. it is great. a new chance compared to the old building. it is great. i hope it will stay clean. >> reporter: this is the mom

house and we were here to talk to them and a lot of these folks who came out to to to counter the ku klux klan to counter the white nationalist a lot of them had different ideas some of them buy into this idea that russia is responsible for divisions in the usa but others do not you buy in the idea that it's russia's falls that the people having the rally over there is somehow the fault of russia russian bought stackers facebook yet not even a little and why do you think that's so big in the mainstream media why are they pushing that so hard. that's a good question i don't know i think it kind of it's comforting to hear that this is russia's fault and not something that's been wrong with america since the foundation of this country it's nice to say it's russia's fault go and it's trump's fault and that once trump is gone and once you know the elections are more secure and all races not fade away because the russian bots or the russian hackers are no longer influencing people to be racist but that's not true it's just a nice story you can tell yourself say this racism and this is the white supr

don't tell me that the ku klux klan are ignorant. somebody holding the door realized that bus could explode and the ku klux klan would get burned and then they said let's get out of here. >> let me interrupt you, to give you a sense of that history as bernard comes back. i want you to think about it. that this was 1960. freedom rides. in addison, alabama, when they tried to kill all the people on that bus. and bernard lafayette and the students in nashville decided they were going to pick up the torch. they knew they could die. they could be hurt. but they did it and they took the freedom rides over and moved them ahead. and i think that's something that, you know, sometimes people who have been through that are a tad too modest to talk about put their lives on the line which is what you did and lot of people did. i think it's important to put that in context. [ applause ] and i just -- and peter, because you were -- peter and i talked a bunch over the past months. you were in law school when this was going on. so i never asked you th

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of people that come out the other night unified around much but when it comes to opposing the ku klux klan opposing the white nationalist that is one thing that has brought all these people together caleb mopping archie washington d.c. . russia's prime minister has warned that if the u.s. goes ahead with sanctions against russia's major banks it will be viewed as an act of economic war that was after a first wave of measures was announced over moscow's alleged role in the poisoning of russian double agents sergei screwball and his daughter back in march and the new sanctions that banned russian state owned firms from buying certain american electronic devices on security grounds a much tougher second wave which has yet to be passed into law could prevent leading russian banks from obtaining credit on the international markets and he said he takes up the story for us. when it comes to global disagreement sanctions that the u.s. weapon of choice as russia's number two at the u.n. put it let's us welcome the united sanctions of america well russia is being on the receiving end of plenty of th

gay rhetoric is really the same talking points that groups like the ku klux klan and the national socialist movement have been using for years so as much as he may say all the wise the policies that he enacts would should include atrocious things like deporting ten year old girls in the hospital who are there for surgery back to mexico that that's the kind of stuff that it's a promise like this and i think that they really believe they have an ally in the why those so do you think trump has a thing for those kind of groups i mean he refused to specifically shame they white supremacists for the violence in charlottesville where and anti-racist protester was killed media to get that asked trump supporting the far right did you see that way as well. or is it all of fall fetch to say that while adjusting from president drones actions is very quick to condemn football players for peacefully protesting and he calls them sons of bitches and says they should be fired like within hours of them protesting what was going on season ku klux klan members are marching under swastikas in an american city a

ku klux klan. then i say, is it true? he said, yes.body, thinks it's the skit. but i knew that doing this film, it takes place in the '70s, i would be able to deal -- i'd be able to make it contemporary. i just knew that. >> yeah. so, the -- jordan peele is the oscar-winning director for "get o out". >> "get out." >> he called you. you're talking about ron stallworth, the cop who infiltrated. he's talking to the guy on the phone. >> tofe ar grace. >> but it's david duke. watch this. ♪ >> hello? >> this is ron stallworth calling. >> who am i speaking with? is. >> this is david duke. grand wizard of the ku klux klan. that david duke? >> god, last time i checked. what can i do you for? >> well, since you asked, i hate blacks. i hate jews. mexicans and irish. italians and chinese. but my mouth to god's ears, i really hate those black rats and anyone else really that doesn't have pure white aryan blood running through their veins. >> talking to a true white america. >> god bless white america. >> let's talk about it. i don't want to give aw

i've never tear rised a black person in my life. >> why the ku klux klan. >> because i want to see what it once was. >> he referenced this when thousands marched through wash in 1985. >> at that time the march was about the fact our country was allowing immigrants to come here, change their names and no documentation, if your name was schwartz cls coff you come here and call yourself schwartz nobody cares. >> he said it was to keep blacks, jews, and others from rising politically. >> it's not about a black man, red man, yellow man, it's about a red, white, and blue. >> he's still awaiting sentencing in charlottesville. while he waits, something remarkable is happening because of this man. r&b musician has spent decades engaging with clan members and challengetion his beliefs. he and press ston have talked for years via phone and suddenly davis was standing up for preston in court. >> what could doh you say to the judge. >> i testified for his behalf i also paid part of his bail non get him out. >> you paid part of his bail money? >> did i. is he taking you for a fool using you? >> not a

he squashed the ku klux klan. he did a lot of things like that. did it work all the time, no, it didn't, because many northerners and southerners thought blacks should be kept in an inferior status. but grant tried all he could to try to make sure that the results of the civil war were what he believed and what later on in the later 20th century, people believed is the main reason why the war was fought. >> frank, let me address the question of grant's image as president. we have this notion that grant was a great general, john addressed that to some extent, and then he became a not so good president. i think we have this myth that grant was popularly -- was elected in 1868 with a huge popular majority which is actually true. he took office in march of 1869 and then things began to fall apart, that he made a lot of mistakes and reformists rose up and were critical of him and their criticisms supposedly were justified by the supposed mistakes that he has made -- he had made. actually, the reality is quite a bit different from that. grant took offic

white house called birth of a nation and its sister interest by the fact that it's hero is the ku klux klan. the kkk rides to the rescue at the end of the movie. it's a racist movie shown by a racist president and suddenly we have a very interesting phenomenon to deal with intellectually. progressive racism. that's kind of a surprise because progressive racism. and yet it would not be an exaggeration to say that progressives, the democrats, invented racism and here's what i mean. historically the democratic party was the party of the state slave plantation. they were unified not around racism but around slavery and the northern democrats and southern democrats were in it together. abraham lincoln identified what he called the four bad guys of slavery, the four horsemen of the apocalypse you might say. one was roger 20 from maryland, lincoln southerner but the second was franklin., the former president from new hampshire, a northerner. then james buchanan, a northerner and stephen douglas, lincoln's supreme antagonist fromillinois, a northerner . the northern democrats were writing the row s

it is distinguished by a fact that the movie's hero is of the ku klux klan. it's a racist movie shown by racist president. we have an interesting phenomenon to deal with, progressive racism. we don't get taught that. yet it would not be an exaggeration to say progressives and democrats invented racism. historically the democratic party was the party of the slave plantation. they were unified around slavery. and seven democrats were in this together. when lincoln identified what he called the four bad guys of slavery, the four horsemen of the apocalypse, he was from maryland. lincoln counts him as a seven or. then james buchanan, in northern or. then stephen douglas. the northern democrats were driving the proslavery debate in the democratic camps. is -- the secession debate was north-south but the slavery debate was between the proslavery democratic party and the anti-slavery democratic party. that's a fact. it's so crushing that sometimes when i speak on campus, this is a familiar thing that happens. inevitably some professor of romance languages will stand

ku klux klan for information and a p.o. box and i figured what the heck?ate and identifiedm signed my real name and had a brain cramp that day. >> god works. >> yes. >> signed my real name, put it in the mail and forgot about it and about a week or two later i get a phone call. >> did you have a plan? >> no plan. >> you know how god works? >> the plan didn't begin until this phone call ended when the local organizers wanted to meet me in a week, and i basically described the white officer in my book, his name is chuck, in the movie his name is flip. >> yeah. >> i described him as me because he's about my height and my weight. i even described the type of clothes he would have on when they met because i knew how he generally came to work. i hung up and that's when i started thinking, okay, this is how i'm going to do this. >> and this could possibly work. >> it's an incredible story. did you really trick david duke into taking a picture with you? >> that happened. >> that happened. >> that's incredible. >> is it exactly as depicted in the move? >> i think s

in washington, im drew petrimoulx (jrstone)ku klux klan flyers are showing up in the bay area. specifically in solano county.those in one neighborhood found recruitment flyers on their driveways. kron4's gayle ong was in suisun (sis-soon) city and talked with neighbors. ths is one of the areas the flyers were found.to make things more unusual - they were packaged inside a plastic ziploc bag full of raw rice. the ku klux klan recruitment flyers were left on driveways here in suisun citya very bizarre discovery in a racially mixed neighborhoodsot sotresidents say they saw a truck pass through friday night and found the bags saturdaysotthe flyers showed up in a plastic bag filled with riceurging people to call a number in north carolina.. among those who received the message - kyle atalig's (atalic) family it also made it's way through the mayor's neighborhood - sotsuisun city police say there is no evidence of any specific crime related to the flyersand calls them disappointing and unnecessary sotpolice believe whoever left the flyers was passing through the detective on this cas

the ku klux klan recruitment flyers were left on driveways here in suisun citya very bizarre discovery in a racially mixed neighborhoodsot sotresidents say they saw a truck pass through friday night sotthe flyers showed up in a plastic bag filled with riceurging people to call a number in north carolina..among those who received the message - kyle atalig's (atalic) family it also made it's way through the mayor's neighborhood - sot suisun city police say there is no evidence of any specific crime related to the flyersand calls them disappointing and unnecessary sot police believe whoever left the flyers was passing through the detective on this case here insists there is no local klan activity in this town. live in suisun city, gayle ong kron4 news. kron4 news.city, gayle ong live in suisun town.live in suisun city, gayle ong kron4 news. (j.r.) for the second time this week alaska airlines is making headlines. today a plane that left san francisco had to make an emerncy landing in los angeles. the alaska airlines flight was headed to new orleans with 136 people on board. the flight cre

he joins the formerly all—white colorado police force and decides to infiltrate the ku klux klan.vert from the press, phones up and says he wants to join. he works his way up the chain all the way to david duke, the grand wizard. when it comes to face—to—face meetings, they have to get someone else to play ron, so they pull in his partner, played by adam driver, who isjewish. they say, i will do the voice on the phone, you do it in person. they have different attitudes to the case initially. here is a clip. i'm not risking my life to prevent some rednecks from lighting a couple of sticks on fire. this is the job. what's your problem? that's the problem. for you, it's a crusade, for me it's a job. it's not personal. why haven't you bought into this? because you are jewish, brother. the so—called chosen people. you have been passing for a wasp. a dull white boy. why do some light skinned light—skinned black folks folks pass for white? the balancing act is between humour and horror. it is produced by the producer of get out. jordan peele said it was a documentary. this takes a histor

is wasn't just the extremist few like the ku klux klan, but it wasn't. so if you go through a highlights reel of the civil rights era, you will find the confederate flag there almost all the time in the hands of ordinary people, or in this case at the alabama state guard, i believe, with martin luther king and fred shuttlesworth in salma, i believe. or when james meredith appeared on campus at ole miss in 1962 to integrate, the boys who were used to waving these flags at football games and kappa alpha events waved it in his face to turn him away from the campus. and when the civil rights marchers arrived in montgomery in 1965, they were greeted by at lest one camera capturing the confederate flag. when they passed their laws in 1950s and 1960s, one young man was there for support of state's rights with confederate flags. when little rock was integrated, central high was integrated in 1959, the confederate flag was there as well as it was in birmingham in 1963 when the white students wanted to boycott integration rights. or when students in louisville, ke

they actually sent out applications if you want to join the ku klux klan in high school. in church if they pass it out in alabama. that is where i live. that is what i am talking about. things that you have not seen before. how do you respond to it is the question and when you see it in the larger context of history, it is no mystery. it is when you don't know your history that it becomes a mystery. we have seen this before. let's get quickly past that and get to salome nation -- slow- motion with our perch. we don't have enough involvement of young people. remember the movement of the 60s? these were young folk. i was a teenager. look at the children's movement. the children and young folk make it happen. they had the support of the adults. the adults make sure they were there for them. we had to get the young people involved. one of the things you do is create a simulated legislature. ages 12 to 17. get those young people together and get them to elect officials to replicate the very state election that we have. they can vote on the same day. you can get a youth body. y