Confronting racism face-to-face - BBC News

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I went out and confronted these people with my person.

I tried to bring them out of their heads

because they have an
imagination of their enemy

but actually they don't
meet them so much.

Different things happened.

One; they just turned around

so I saw all the backs of
these neo-nazi's.

Some people they just walked away.

Some people pushed the camera
into the camera man's face.

Oh, they put a [sent] in front of my foot, and say:

'Have a nice flight back home.'

I've been thinking, of course, all the
time about the Klu Klux Klan

film shooting in the U.S.

We have been waiting next to the forest

and all of a sudden they came.

They passed by in a car.

They made like Heil Hitler hail

and then they stopped the car

they went backwards and when they came

I saw two machine guns in the back of the car

and that was really frightening.

You must have a vision for life.

What's your vision? As a Klansman?

[KKK member] I see it as, not uh, I'm not a racist.

You're not a racist?

No. I am not a racist.
Oh.

Nobody is a racist that is in the Klan.

No, but you are wearing, like, history.

You're wearing, like, 100s of years
of threat and terror.

This is more for ceremonial purposes.

These people actually don't talk to Jews

they don't talk to black people.

They don't their 'enemy' - so called enemy.

So, what they do, when they talk to me

they talk to reality.

And that's the first thing they
have to survive, you know.

We're ruining the races.

We're not improving the races.

We're destroying the races.

[Woman off camera] How does this work?

Race mixing.

[How? I mean how?]
Co-Habitation.

Having, well, a black person and
a white person having a child.

Yeah, that's me.

Well, hybrids do pretty well
in the first generation

but from then on, they don't.

You know what a pure black
person looks like?

Yeah, but where's the white?

A black person, a really
black looking person

don't you see the connection?

I think it totally confuses them

because I'm not like they
want me to be.

So, I stand there,
maybe I smile at them

and because it's a human reaction,

you wanna smile back.

So, I see them trying to
hold down the smile

and that's something
very, very interesting.

Ok, let's say bye-bye again here.

[Man with hat] Ok, alright.

Bye, Bye.

I'll hug you, ok?

Oh!

It's interracial. I hope
nobody see's a picture.

Then I'll be through.

Laughs.

There was one guy, in the end of
the movie, I get to meet him.

He already had the thought of
going out of this nazi community.

And once I met him, we talked,
and even now we've got friends.

And I do like him.

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