*This must have come as a super shock to the system of a whole bunch of white racists: A Black man has been appointed as the new director and president of one of the most prominent neo-Nazi groups in the nation.
James Hart Stern, 54, is a civil rights activist who previously dissolved a Ku Klux Klan chapter and he vows to do the same with the National Socialist Movement (NSM) after having taken over from their former leader Jeff Schoep on February 15, per Newsweek via court filings seen by the Southern Poverty Law Centre.
Stern had “no official or casual relationship with this group prior [to February 2019],” and therefore cannot be held responsible for their actions, the report states.
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The NSM is one of several groups being sued for their involvement in the deadly “Unite The Right” rally held in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017.
Stern has filed a request asking a Virginia federal court to rule against the NSM before one of the lawsuits goes to trial, reports The Associated Press. He allegedly plans to use his position as president of the group to undermine their defense in the lawsuit, the report states.
Matthew Heimbach, a white nationalist who previously served as NSM’s community outreach director, said Stern’s takeover of the group is certainly the beginning of the end for NSM.
“I think it’s kind of a sad obit for one of the longest-running white nationalist organizations,” Heimbach said.
Stern previously dissolved a KKK chapter in Michigan after sharing a cell with former Grand Wizard Edgar Ray Killen in prison while serving a five-year sentence for wire fraud.
Via Newsweek:
Killen, who died in January 2018 aged 92, was serving a 60-year prison sentence for the “Mississippi Burnings” killings of civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner.
After sharing a cell between August 2010 to November 2011, Killen gave Stern power of attorney and land rights, which he used to dissolve a chapter of the KKK that Killen once belonged to.
“I have personally targeted eradicating the [KKK] and the National Socialist Movement, which are two organizations here in this country which have all too long been given privileges they don’t deserve,” Stern said in a video posted on his site, reports AP.
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