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

by Ron Stallworth

No one ever looks out for the welfare of white people, so the members are going to do something for poor white people at Christmas.”

It’s important for me to explain just who David Duke was and is, a man whose name to this day is synonymous with hate and a lightning rod in the current political and media landscape. A man who would soon consider me a “friend.”

The fact that he won an election as a Republican after failing twice as a Democratic candidate says a lot about the mind-set of the electorate. The conservative right-wing Republican political agenda was then and still is much more in sync with white, hate-fueled racist extremist groups like the Ku Klux Klan.

Being there with the KKK was surreal, frightening, and exhilarating all at once.