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CSUSB’s Brian Levin: A half century after King's murder, white supremacists still haunt the nationDaily News (New York)April 3, 2018
In an op-ed, Brian Levin, a former NYPD officer who is now a professor of criminal justice and director of the nonpartisan Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, wrote: “The arc of Dr. Martin Luther King’s extraordinary but short life was loosely coextensive with the collapse of two crucial American white supremacist movements: the nativist heartland Second Era Klan of the 1920s and that of the more Dixie-centric civil rights era Klan of the 1950s and 60s.
'However, like the fighting white warrior it purports to be, white nationalism stealthily hopscotches across the historical ring, sometimes camouflaging its assaults under hoods, shaved heads or political banners. Today, a half-century after King’s murder, white nationalism — the doctrine that citizenship and nationhood should be tied to race — still thrives, driven by fear, demographic changes and polarization.”
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