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'Reformed Racist' Targeted for Death After Revealing Ku Klux Klan and White Nationalists Secrets
By Gary Glennell Toms
If
they were organizations or individuals with white racist views, Scott
Shepherd was closely associated with them. Shepherd, who spent the early
part of his life in Mississippi and Texas, attended college in
Mississippi and Georgia. After graduating, he relocated to Memphis,
Tennessee; where he was introduced to the white nationalist movement and
went on to obtain a high-ranking leadership position within a number of
white nationalist organizations.
Shepherd
was also a member of the Ku Klux Klan and served as Imperial Wizard,
Grand Wizard, and national leader of the Omerta Knights of the Ku Klux
Klan. His other affiliations included the National Association for the
Advancement of White People and The European-American Unity Rights
Organization, both founded by former Louisiana Congressman and Klansman
David Duke. In effort to teach what he described as "uneducated" whites
about the movement, Shepherd created The National White Rights
Association and The White Rights Organization.
The
Mississippi native also had connections to "pro-white" organizations in
South Africa and other countries. These connections included extremist
and anti-government groups. Some were labeled militia or mercenary
groups and were considered paramilitary, such as The Civilian Material
Assistance Group (CMA), an anti-government and anti-Communist
organization with operations in Central America.
Shepherd
was a candidate for state representative and governor in the state of
Tennessee in the late 80's and early 90's and proudly campaigned as a
white nationalist.
Today,
Scott Shepherd has a very different view on race in America and has
chosen to speak out against the white nationalist movement and other
racist organizations he loved and supported. The man who spent the
majority of his life vehemently campaigning for racial separation has
become an advocate for racial harmony...and the recipient of numerous
death threats from individuals and organizations associated with the
white nationalist movement. Despite the threats to his life, he is
determined to prevent others, especially young people, from falling
victim to the propaganda and recruitment tactics used by the white
nationalist movement and other racist groups.
This exclusive interview was conducted on November 16, 2013.
CORRECTION:
I stated in this episode that former Klansman David Duke was governor
of Louisiana, but Duke actually served in the House of Representatives. I
knew this, but for some strange reason I said governor while recording
the opening segment. Scott Shepherd photos courtesy of Scott Shepherd
“I’ve never had any run-ins with the
cops before. I’ve never been to jail and have no criminal record, so
when the FBI showed up to my workplace, it scared the piss out of me,”
says Katy, a 22-year-old who works for a custodial services company in
Cookeville, a small college town in middle Tennessee. “I really thought I
was going to lose my job. The whole experience was terrifying.” Moved by the video of the police killing of George Floyd
in Minneapolis, Katy — who requested she only be identified by her
first name — and a friend had created a Facebook event for a Black Lives
Matter rally in Cookeville’s public square on Saturday, June 6. She
soon connected with several other Cookeville locals who wanted to help
with planning the event, and enthusiasm grew as word of the rally
spread. “I’ve never organized a rally before, I was just winging it,” Katy
said. “I didn’t expect a lot of people to show up, but overnight 600
people had RSVP’d on Facebook.”
Counter-protesters organized their own Facebook group, Protect
Cookeville Against Looters, which quickly swelled to over 1,000 members.
Some of the members of this group determined that Katy was the main
organizer of the upcoming rally and began posting her personal
information and making violent threats. “The event for the rally had been up for about four days when we
started getting death threats,” Katy said. “It was too much. I was
overwhelmed.” Katy eventually backed out of the rally — and a group of local high
school students took over planning — but she had already gotten the
attention of the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, or JTTF, a federally
coordinated network of local law enforcement officers who work under the
direction of the FBI to gather intelligence about terrorist threats. On June 4, agents turned up unannounced at Katy’s work, pulling her
off the job and into a large truck in the gravel parking lot to question
her about her connections to the upcoming rally and to antifa — the
loose anti-fascist movement recently labeled as a terrorist organization by President Donald Trump. Katy had never heard of them. Click here for the full report. Source: The Intercept_
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