4 - Don Black

Summary

Nothing has contributed more in recent years to the growing influence of the whole range of white nationalist, white supremacist, and white protest groups in America than the exponential growth in the use of the Internet. And no one has been more successful in exploiting the potentials of this new development than Don Black, the publisher of the Stormfront website. Stormfront is really a web junction box that provides the web surfer with links to literally hundreds of other white racialist websites ranging from fairly mainstream European heritage organizations to the outer fringes of neo-Nazi and white militia groups. Stormfront reportedly receives many tens of thousands of visitors each month. Black himself is certainly no newcomer to the world of white racial activism and white supremacy. While still a high school student at Athens, Alabama, in the early 1970s, Black joined a white supremacist group called the National Socialist White People's Party, and later, while a student at the University of Alabama, he joined forces with David Duke in revitalizing the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Black's career as a white nationalist and white separatist leader, however, came to a sudden halt in the spring of 1981 when he and several other Klan members were arrested in a bizarre plot to invade the tiny Caribbean nation of Dominica in support of anticommunist forces on the island who were dissatisfied with the prime minister.