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Related: About this forumHow a black man 'outsmarted' a neo-Nazi group and became their new leader
Dave Weigel RetweetedWild. He shared a prison cell with the white supremacist responsible for the Mississippi Burning murders and got him to sign over his life rights. Then, he convinced the neo-Nazi group behind Unite the Rights fatal rally to sign over ownership. Wild.
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How a black man outsmarted a neo-Nazi group and became their new leader
By Katie Mettler
March 2 at 10:03 AM
This story has been updated.
Without notifying his followers or even his inner circle, the longtime president of a legacy neo-Nazi group signed over its control to a black civil rights activist from California. James Hart Stern, a 54-year-old with a history of infiltrating white-supremacist groups, is the new leader of the National Socialist Movement.
Sterns first move as president was to address a pending lawsuit against the group by asking a Virginia judge to find it guilty of conspiring to commit violence at the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017. Next, he plans to transform the hate groups website into a space for Holocaust history lessons.
I did the hard and dangerous part, Stern told The Washington Post in his first interview since taking over the National Socialist Movement. As a black man, I took over a neo-Nazi group and outsmarted them.
For weeks, the sudden change in power had confounded those who study hate groups and perplexed those within the organization, who had heard nothing from Jeff Schoep, the man who led the Detroit-based hate group for 24 years.
Before Friday, neither man had publicly addressed the organizational changes. ... Stern came forward Friday to share the full story of his unconventional rise to power: an epic tale, he said, that includes infiltration, persuasion and a hint of manipulation. Theres a reason, he said, that some call him the race whisperer.
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Katie Mettler is a general assignment reporter for The Washington Post. She previously worked for the Tampa Bay Times in St. Petersburg, Fla. Follow https://twitter.com/kemettler
How a black man outsmarted a neo-Nazi group and became their new leader
By Katie Mettler
March 2 at 10:03 AM
This story has been updated.
Without notifying his followers or even his inner circle, the longtime president of a legacy neo-Nazi group signed over its control to a black civil rights activist from California. James Hart Stern, a 54-year-old with a history of infiltrating white-supremacist groups, is the new leader of the National Socialist Movement.
Sterns first move as president was to address a pending lawsuit against the group by asking a Virginia judge to find it guilty of conspiring to commit violence at the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017. Next, he plans to transform the hate groups website into a space for Holocaust history lessons.
I did the hard and dangerous part, Stern told The Washington Post in his first interview since taking over the National Socialist Movement. As a black man, I took over a neo-Nazi group and outsmarted them.
For weeks, the sudden change in power had confounded those who study hate groups and perplexed those within the organization, who had heard nothing from Jeff Schoep, the man who led the Detroit-based hate group for 24 years.
Before Friday, neither man had publicly addressed the organizational changes. ... Stern came forward Friday to share the full story of his unconventional rise to power: an epic tale, he said, that includes infiltration, persuasion and a hint of manipulation. Theres a reason, he said, that some call him the race whisperer.
....
Katie Mettler is a general assignment reporter for The Washington Post. She previously worked for the Tampa Bay Times in St. Petersburg, Fla. Follow https://twitter.com/kemettler
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How a black man 'outsmarted' a neo-Nazi group and became their new leader (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Mar 2019
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I was hoping to get that "Ach so" clip from Stalag 17 to use here, but
mahatmakanejeeves
Mar 2019
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(52,243 posts)1. That is a truly incredible story!
Yonnie3
(17,443 posts)2. This clarifies the strange document I mention in my earlier post
My post:Neo Nazi Organization Willing to Pay Plaintiffs in Federal Lawsuit
The filed document in PDF: http://ftpcontent.worldnow.com/wvir/documents/sines-national-socialist-movement.pdf
some of it:
I James Hart Stern the Director, President of this organization, the first and only Black Man, African American, one that do not hold the values of the Nationalist to be given contröl over the Iargest Neo Nazi organization in the world by the former Director of 25 years and dictator, I have been privilege to information that make this decision possible. There is no one vlse with in the corporation that can Iegally challenge this decision, so there is no chance of this decision being appealed. I James Had Stern Taking over the National Socialist Movement February 15, 2019 having no official or causal relationship with this group prior, take no personal Iiabilities of any of its action, it is James Hart Stern actions of filing for Summary Judgment that rights a wrong that is over 25 years coming
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,475 posts)3. I see. NT
Yonnie3
(17,443 posts)4. Now I see too.
Thanks
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,475 posts)5. I was hoping to get that "Ach so" clip from Stalag 17 to use here, but
clips from that film are hard to come by. I've spent a lot of time at YouTube looking for appropriate snippets.
Yonnie3
(17,443 posts)6. I much prefer "I know nothing" n/t