Years before Donald Trump launched a presidential campaign based in part on the politics of race and division, a group of avowed white nationalists was working to make his rise possible by pushing its ideology from the radical fringes ever closer to the far conservative right. Many attendees in Memphis had transformed over their careers from Klansmen to white supremacists to self-described racial realists, and Derek Black represented another step in that evolution.
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He was not only a leader of racial politics but also a product of them. His father, Don Black, had created Stormfront, the Internets first and largest white nationalist site, with 300,000 users and counting. His mother, Chloe, had once been married to David Duke, one of the countrys most infamous racial zealots, and Duke had become Dereks godfather. They had raised Derek at the forefront of the movement, and some white nationalists had begun calling him the heir.
