[RAP MUSIC PLAYING]
ROCCO CASTORO: Two days before the rally, I met back up with
Dajuan Horton and his fellow Grape Street Crips to see how
the recruiting efforts were going.
DAJUAN HORTON: We're about to go get up with some young
fellas in the neighborhood, catch them outside, just
getting out of school.
All of them, some of them grown.
Everybody been in a little trouble, everybody do their
own thing, so far as getting money and
what they're claiming.
But I want them to come together and show them that we
don't have to kill each other while you're
getting your money.
That's one for sure, that you don't have to fear
another black man.
ROCCO CASTORO: They had gotten as far as setting up a name
for their new gang mega alliance,
which they called DUI--
Divine United International.
As I rode with Dajuan on the recruiting mission, I couldn't
help but think that some people
might find it confusing.
You want to basically have these guys all be under the
banner of DUI?
DAJUAN HORTON: Yeah, but it's more of not a banner.
I don't know.
I don't know the terminology I want to use.
We're going to Hustletown.
ROCCO CASTORO: Hustletown?
DAJUAN HORTON: Yeah, it's Hustletown.
Yes, this place can be very dangerous.
I know a couple of people from over here that've been shot.
And it's not so much that it's a poverty neighborhood, it's
just that people in the neighborhood are
just us, you know?
Hood people.
And they're going to act a certain way no
matter where they are.
Hello.
Little Ed, you going to come to the hood?
Cool.
We on the way now, nigga.
Are you on the way now?
All right, G. See, you know we're over here east side.
You see my boy no matter where we is.
It's east side over here.
Come on, [INAUDIBLE].
Yeah, so man, we get this DUI here, man, Divine United
International.
We're trying to stop killing each other.
How ya'll feeling about that?
You know it says DUI, but it's not DUI-- we're driving drunk
or nothing, you know?
We're to come together so the more people,
you know what I imean?
Because imagine we had all them connections, we would
never have a problem.
You get stranded somewhere, you can call anybody.
We're going to bring everybody together, man.
All the gangs and stuff like that, we're going to bring all
of it together.
-Yeah, man.
Positive, man.
DAJUAN HORTON: The first event we got is going to be Saturday
at the KKK rally, and we going to try to scoop everybody up
and go down there just to show them-- you know what I'm
saying-- that we don't want to hear none of that.
East side, nigga.
East Memphis was predominantly white at first.
It was real pretty.
So they started moving black people out here, and then it
started looking a little different.
So east side is where we hold it down.
Eddie, my guy right here.
Man, I want to tell you about the DUI.
Man, we're going to come together.
Everybody coming together, man.
Divine United International.
We want college boys, gang bangers, everything you can
think of, you hear me?
East side, nigga, [INAUDIBLE].
East side, east side, east side, east side, east side,
east side, east side, east side, east side.
Did you hear about the rally?
-KKK rally downtown.
DAJUAN HORTON: What do you feel about people destroying
Memphis, your home city?
Racial war.
-See how we can get together?
We should be able to do this anywhere.
-Anywhere.
-White person with tattoo, black people with tattoo.
Ain't even about the tattoos.
It's about the color, man.
We should be able to travel without having to watch our
backs.
-This is a group hug to the whole of Memphis.
-You should be able to walk down your own street without
having to watch your back.
ROCCO CASTORO: I managed to arrange a last-minute, super
secret meeting with a man who would only refer to himself as
Exalted Cyclops Edward, the same man who had announced the
Klan rally to the local media.
He wasn't shy about giving his opinions on race.
White man and a black woman just rolled
by on a four wheeler.
What do you feel about that?
EXALTED CYCLOPS EDWARD: That's disgusting.
ROCCO CASTORO: Yeah?
EXALTED CYCLOPS EDWARD: Stick with your own race.
ROCCO CASTORO: So I imagine you are not so
happy with our President?
EXALTED CYCLOPS EDWARD: No, not at all.
Well, yeah, I'm very happy with it.
I've got to say, he has made the Klan a lot stronger.
That's the only thing good he's done.
I think this is going to be a larger rally than they've seen
here in Memphis.
There's so much media involved with it with the gang members
and all of that, that concerned it's going
to be a huge riot.
ROCCO CASTORO: When you go to the rally, what are you going
to say to people?
What is your--
EXALTED CYCLOPS EDWARD: We're not here for the black race,
for the Mexican race.
We're here because of the changing of our parks.
And that's it.
You won't hear the N-word coming out
of anybody up there.
Our imperial wizard's already told everyone coming, do not
use the N-word.
We're here about our parks being changed.
And that's it.
We're an organization that tries to stand up for the
white rights, and people are so
scared to stand up together.
And we're trying to tell them come out.
Quit being worried about it, and let's stand together and
take over, take back what is ours.
-Come here.
-Stay out of the frame.
-Come here.
Come here.
Come back.
We've got to go.
ROCCO CASTORO: OK.
-[INAUDIBLE].
ROCCO CASTORO: See you, guys.
So I don't know what happened.
I don't know if they were spooked by the four wheeler
again, but something's going on.
I think we'd probably get the fuck out of here.
That's what my spider senses are telling me.
What happened?
EXALTED CYCLOPS EDWARD: The gal on the four wheeler--
ROCCO CASTORO: Yeah?
EXALTED CYCLOPS EDWARD: --questioning one
of our guys up front.
ROCCO CASTORO: OK.
EXALTED CYCLOPS EDWARD: And then three cops pulled in and
followed the gal's four wheeler in, so we didn't know
what was going on.
ROCCO CASTORO: Oh, wow.
EXALTED CYCLOPS EDWARD: He come by with a
black girl on the back.
They come back with a white girl on the back.
ROCCO CASTORO: Yeah.
EXALTED CYCLOPS EDWARD: And i noticed he had a police radio
on the front of the four wheeler.
ROCCO CASTORO: Oh, OK.
SCOTT SHEPHERD: Let me tell you, they're
hiding behind the mask.
The dog and all this, that's just part of them trying to
put on a show.
If they were who they would say they were, the nonviolent,
peaceful people, why are they not right here in this park
with their mask off talking with you today?
At one time, I was white supremacist, I was a member of
the Ku Klux Klan, and I came to a point in my life where I
just changed.
And that's where I am today.
I'm a reformed racist and trying to end racism.
Let me tell you, the Klan does not care one thing about the
name of these parks.
They do not care.
The only reason they're here is because they're using it as
a tool and an excuse to come here and cause trouble.
I mean, they're coming here to protest the
renaming of a park.
And if you look at it, they're the reason that the park's
being renamed.
ROCCO CASTORO: Have you been threatened at all leading up
to this rally?
SCOTT SHEPHERD: Oh yes, yes.
-This is the Loyal White Knights trying to call you.
Are you just a crackhead who can't afford to pay your bill
and it just goes to your voicemail?
The Loyal White Knights will set you straight.
If you don't like the rally, tough shit.
SCOTT SHEPHERD: I can handle the threats, I know I'm doing
the right thing.
I'm fighting for a cause that is really important.
So it is really no concern.
[SINGING]
ROCCO CASTORO: The night before the rally, I attended a
Unitarian Church service that was called by over a dozen
local pastors who had rallied the respect of congregations
to celebrate Memphis unity and pray that the city would
persevere regardless of the outcome of the Klan rally.
-You know what?
When we heard about the rally that's taking place tomorrow,
[INAUDIBLE] said, what do you do?
And we felt prompted that we should have a prayer rally.
If there's going to be a Klan rally, then we're going to
have a prayer rally.
[APPLAUSE]
PASTOR MATT ANZIVINO: Man, it can't be fixed politically.
It can't be fixed financially.
It can't be fixed educationally.
But when you face something as big as what this city is
facing tomorrow, we need divine intervention.
PASTOR DANIEL MOORE: We curse division.
We curse prejudice.
We curse the ancient ruins that attract
and destroy a city.
And we decree, and we declare a thing today--
The Klan, what they're doing, they don't represent
Christianity.
Certainly, they don't represent really the vast
majority of people.
And we wanted--
I wanted my friends and my neighbors who would be hurt by
what's going on to know that we're not afraid to stand with
him and say we don't agree with it, and it's wrong.
ROCCO CASTORO: What concerns do you have about what may
happen tomorrow at the rally?
PASTOR DANIEL MOORE: I'm praying for rain.
I'm praying that it'll--