“There is no time better than right now to speak up and let other people know that if there’s any chance, any part of their fiber, that doesn’t like the way they’re feeling, doesn’t like being in hatred, [they can] chart a path in a different direction.”
Catch up on the developing stories making headlines.Driving through a recent morning rain in the mountains of West Virginia, 60-year-old Kelvin Pierce grew nervous as he approached a gate in the middle of a mud-caked dirt road.
“It sat derelict for years, but now they have people working on the property, and they're kind of trying to bring it back to life,” Pierce said. “There's hope that is engendered by a story like [mine],” he said. “If I could overcome that hatred, and that depression, and that feeling of unworthiness, then maybe somebody else could too.”Like so many other American children, when he was young he often dreamed of visiting the nation’s capital – but his dreams were far different than those of most kids.
When Pierce was in college, his father published the novel “The Turner Diaries,” which experts describe as the white power movement’s “bible” with its depictions of a violent campaign against the U.S. government and a global race war that leads to the eradication of Jews, Black people and other non-whites.In this Dec. 18, 2006, file photo, a copy of"The Turner Diaries" written Dr.
In this Jan. 4, 2020, file photo, William Pierce, founder of the White Power group, National Alliance, is shown in Hillsboro, W.V.Before authorities caught up with McVeigh in 1995 for bombing the federal building in Oklahoma City, McVeigh called the National Alliance three times “to see if they had any safe havens,” McVeigh said in rarely-heard audiotapes obtained by ABC News.
“He would say that, you know, ‘These are unfortunate results of what needs to happen for us to accomplish our goals,’” according to Pierce.Even today, Pierce said he isn’t quite sure who first “planted that seed” of extremist ideology in his father. That’s also when his father stopped paying attention to his children – unless he was angrily beating them for some perceived infraction, Pierce said.
“It was my futile effort to try to impress him,” according to Pierce, noting that he subsequently “spent a good portion of my life as a hater.” “And that's when I started this journey of challenging my thoughts and adopting a more spiritual worldview, and look at human beings,” he said."I learned that I did not need to attach myself and my self worth to all of the fearful and hateful thoughts … That I could choose different thoughts. That I could reach out for better feeling thoughts.”
But, according to Pierce, that belief"changed dramatically during the 2016 election cycle,” when he heard theChip Somodevilla/Getty Images, FILE By “using division as a tool to gain and to hold onto power,” the Trump administration is “now making outward expressions of hatred in our country unassailable,” according to Pierce. Trump hasBut for Pierce it's clear"a monster that went into hibernation," as he put it,"has come out of hibernation.”“I was like, ‘Okay, if there is some thing I can do to counter this, then I have to do it,” he said.
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