Stormfront were less subdued in their outrage. Don Black himself started a thread denouncing his son’s decision.

“Five Days in July”

In the course of researching a report on the financials of the racist right, Hatewatch reached out to Derek Black in late September to ask about a large inheritance he had received from a wealthy white supremacist donor three years ago.

A comparison of the date of Derek’s receipt of this bequest, and other records, with the timeline of his unexpected departure from the racist movement, shows a number of odd coincidences.

A few weeks after his November 2012 renunciation of racism, for example, Derek applied to a graduate school in the Midwest. He also applied for an academic scholarship to the school and was approved a few weeks later. Perhapsthe mass email to his New College colleagues helped with his grad school application?

Regardless, it looks like it took just five days for Derek Black to completely escape the racist movement later that summer. On Friday, July 12, 2013, Derek applied to have his name legally changed. The following Monday, July 15, Derek emailed his denunciation of the racist movement to the SPLC. The next day, Tuesday, July 16, 2013, Derek withdrew $125,000 from the Charles Schwab IRA account of Stanley Paul Ratliff, a retired banker and major Stormfront donor who had died six weeks earlier at the age of 75.

As a result, by August 2013, Derek Black was out of the racist movement, working on his Master’s degree at a university far away from Florida, living under