At that moment, I owned the Klan.
Duke didnt say anything after I said Id arrest him for assault of a police officer.
How did you stand up to that?
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Werent you intimidated or afraid?
The next day they apparently filmed it, and what we see on the screen is the end result.
That KKK meeting was not the end of Stallworths conversations with Duke.
Once more, Stallworth ended the interaction feeling he had gotten the best of the white supremacist.
He obviously felt the need to call me because he went through the process of finding my number.
He was basing it on what he saw in a couple trailers.
He told me, I never said anything like that.
I said you expressed thoughts like that.
Stallworth says he and Duke went beyond the film.
We talked about issues about Trump.
He said, Trumps not racist.
I said, Yeah he is.
He said, Trump is just promoting white culture and heritage.
I said theres no such thing as white culture and heritage, its a myth.
He cited the fact hes of Germanic and Scandinavian descent, and thats the culture that built America.
I said America was founded by rich slave-owning white men, some of whom were rapists.
I cited Thomas Jefferson.
He said Thats not true.
Every time I cornered him, he would change the subject and move on to something else.
We talked about a whole range of stuff, thats just a sample of it.
Duke did not respond immediately to EWs request for comment on the conversation.
What I tell people is, dont sleep on the Klan.
Theyve always been around, they always will be around in some form or another, Stallworth says.
Theyre just interchangeable parts.
We shouldnt sleep on that fact, so recognize that and stay vigilant to it.
And be prepared to confront it when the opportunity presents itself.
