Five years ago, Derek Black (above) was the future of the white power movement. Today, as a Washington Post profile recently recounted, Derek Black is the movement’s best known traitor, having denounced white supremacy and befriended Jews. How was a committed white supremacist, nearly from birth, able to make that change?

Black certainly had the right pedigree, growing up a home-schooled prodigy in a high-tech, Klan-affiliated family where he learned to write Internet code and was building, by the age of 10, racist websites targeting children. Using data compression algorithms and high-speed servers, Derek set up and maintained “Stormfront Radio,” one of the first 24-hour racist radio networks on the Internet, while still in his teens.

In September 2011, then a 22-year-old junior at New College of Florida, Derek organizedwhere his dad explained away a horrific shooting, passed without notice.

The real surprise came less than three months later, in November 2012, when Derek publicly renounced the white supremacist movement and claimed he was now anti-racist, pro-gay marriage and pro-choice in a mass email to his fellow students at New College.

Within days, Stormfront founder, Don Black, announced the cancellation of the Don and Derek Black radio show.

If Stormfront members were surprised and saddened by Derek’s public renunciation of everything racists hold dear, they were in for an even greater shock seven months later, when Derek sent a long email to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), in July 2013, denouncing white supremacy and insisting he would never involve himself in the racist movement again.

This time, the supremacists at