When I learned that the man accused of shooting innocent bystanders Sunday at a Jewish community center and Jewish retirement home in Overland Park, Kan., was a former Klansman named Glenn Miller, I shuddered. Thirty-three years ago, when I was an undergraduate at Duke University, I read a small item in the Raleigh News & Observer that mentioned Miller, then the grand dragon of the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Miller, it turns out, ran a paramilitary training camp in rural North Carolina.
I interviewed the accused Kansas gunman 33 years ago. He was hateful then, too. (via washingtonpost)
“At the time, I didn’t think these sorts of things still happened in the United States. I was wrong.”
(via washingtonpost)
April 17, 2014 // 22:06 // 9 years ago