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Black Civil Rights Activist Outsmarts Neo-Nazi Group, Assumes Control

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Nov 3, 2017
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-m...came-their-new-leader/?utm_term=.c97b3454365e
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.

Stern's 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 group's website into a space for Holocaust history lessons.
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To understand how Stern came to overtake Schoep's organization, you first must understand how the Michigan neo-Nazi came to find the California activist.

Stern says that while serving prison time in Mississippi for mail fraud, he formed a relationship with his cellmate and onetime Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard Edgar Ray Killen. The KKK leader had been convicted in the "Mississippi Burning" killings of three civil rights workers. Though Killen regularly called Stern a racial slur, he nevertheless granted his cellmate power of attorney over his life story and estate.
Stern was paroled from prison in 2011. In 2016, he used his legal discretion to dissolve the Klan organization that Killen once led. That was his first successful infiltration, and the lore of Stern's relationship with the KKK leader is what Stern says first drew Schoep in.
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Stern says he's preparing for what comes next and is seeking guidance from Jewish leaders. He said he does not plan to dissolve the corporation because he doesn't want Schoep's followers, or others in the white-nationalist movement, to reincorporate it.

Stern admits his plans for the website are still evolving, but his primary goal is to offer it as a reclaimed space to Jewish organizations that could help him educate NSM's followers on the history of the Holocaust.

"Everything is out in the open," Stern said. "My plans and intentions are not to let this group prosper. It's my goal to set some hard records right."
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Truth is stranger than fiction. There are too many perfect responses to a story like this. Definitely read the whole article though, there are some nuances here worth discussing, like whether or not it should just straight up be disbanded. Personally, I'm just reveling in these fuckers pulling one over on themselves.
 
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