As part of her introduction each semester, she sometimes showed a 2000 HBO documentary called Hate.Com, about the rise of bigotry on the internet. One of the first faces to appear on-screen was Don Black, described by the narrator as “the godfather of hate on the net.” Next came his eleven-year-old son, Derek, sitting down for an interview in a baseball cap adorned with the Confederate flag, explaining that “nonwhites do not have the same values, ideals, and beliefs that I have.”
