I was struck by Thom’s choice of words. He respected the self-help authors so he didn’t want to imply that they were secret Klansmen. This was an unusually self-deprecating position for the leader of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan to take. I remembered Omar telling me that I should be proud to be a Jew, that assimilation was the worst thing of all, and I considered offering similar advice to Thom.
