
Former KKK poster boy R. Derek Black today, whose pronouns are now they/them. (Photo from his Instagram)

Former KKK poster boy R. Derek Black today, whose pronouns are now they/them. (Photo from his Instagram)
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This essay was originally published in July 2013, but has become relevant again in light of the recent disclosure that R. Derek Black now identifies as transsexual, as revealed in his new memoir: The Klansman’s Son: My Journey from White Nationalism to Antiracism.
Derek Black’s renunciation of White Nationalism raises questions of wider significance about how people form and reject beliefs. (more…)