*With Donald Trump’s election emboldening white supremacists, A&E is going under the hood of several prominent members of the Ku Klux Klan for a new documentary series.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the cable network has embedded cameras with the KKK over the last year in an effort to facilitate a dialogue between a handful of leaders in the hate group and members of their family who want out.
Titled “Generation KKK,” the doc will air over eight episodes beginning in January, according to THR:
Unlike members of the “alt right,” the KKK has been anything about subtle about its vocal racism. The Anti-Defamation League calls the organization a “a racist, anti-Semitic movement with a commitment to extreme violence to achieve its goals of racial segregation and white supremacy.” The project comes from This Is Just A Test (TIJAT), the production which went to A&E with the idea over a year ago.
Subjects include an “Imperial Wizard” trying to recruit his daughter into the KKK, an Iraq war veteran indoctrinating his four-year-old son with racist rhetoric and fifth-generation Klan family trying to recruit a close family friend. There are no obscured faces or changed names, as has been traditional when the group appears in film and TV — members of the KKK who participated gave full permission.
Generation KKK also comes at a time where reports of hate crimes in the U.S. are on the rise. In an effort to shine a light on mounting racism in America, the series also includes members of One People’s Project, an anti-hate activism group that uses reformed hate-group members to speak with the Klan families about changing their ways.
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