Meet the man who went inside the Ku Klux Klan

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... Filmmaker Dan Murdoch headed to North Carolina earlier this year to spend time with a chapter called the Loyal White Knight and recorded his experiences in a new documentary for BBC3 ... The people he meets advocate the removal of the black race, use derogatory terminology to startling effect and deny that the Holocaust ever happened ...

I met a new recruit named Bubba, who’d been a roofer for 20 years, until, he told me: ‘Mexicans took my job.’ He was unemployed and felt he was being squeezed out the job market by immigrants undercutting him on wages, and big businesses outsourcing work to cheaper countries. He felt an America run by the Klan would help protect him ...

They constantly told me that they don’t <hate non-white people>. But then a moment later would be using obscene racist language or stereotypes ...

Many of the people I met claimed they had experienced racism themselves – they’d been in a white minority at a black school or in a black neighbourhood. A lot were unemployed ...

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