Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime

by Ron Stallworth

At this particular moment on this particular issue, the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan clearly realized that he was a defeated man at the mercy of “something” (not “someone”) he hated most—a savage, simian-like in his and the Klan’s mind, intellectually inferior “nigger.” The difference, though, was in this instance this inferior creature carried a badge and had the force of the law behind him and was willing to use it to make his point. I had no doubt that when Duke backed off from trying to snatch the camera from my hand after hearing my warning, he knew I meant what I said, and so did his followers. I, personally, reveled in his and their mental smack-down.