-Klansmen, salute the cross!
-White power!
-(TOGETHER) White power!
-White power!
-(TOGETHER) White power!
[MUSIC - "DIXIE"]
ROCCO CASTORO: Who was Nathan Bedford Forrest?
-He was the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
He was a freedom fighter for the Southern cause, the cause
of Southern independence of the
Confederate States of America.
-Nathan Bedford Forrest was a racist.
It's a symbol of a negative part of the past that many
African Americans in this community simply don't want,
and they don't like.
-He was a very prominent man, a very wealthy man.
And he was a self-made man.
-He was another Adolf Hitler in my mind.
-A hero for every member of the white race.
-He's most remembered by me as being just one of the greatest
Civil War generals we ever had.
-He was a marauder, a murderer.
At Fort Pillow, he executed hundreds of black soldiers.
He was one of the co-founders of one of the single worst
domestic terrorist organizations in the history
of the United States.
-His bad kind of outweighs his good.
-He's always been a revered figure in the Klan.
I looked up to Nathan Bedford Forrest as a general, but it
does cause trouble in this city.
I arrived in Memphis six days before the scheduled Klan
rally to reveal the hard truths about a city that has
struggled with racism since it was founded in 1819.
So we're here outside the Lorraine Motel, which is where
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Was assassinated.
A lot of people are up in arms about this Klan rally, due to
its timing, which is a day away from Easter, and five
days away from the anniversary of his assassination.
Seems pretty purposefully timed to me, and outright
disrespectful.
-Young people in America, you need to realize that the
schoolhouse is not going to teach you right from wrong.
All they're going to teach you is Black History Month and
Mexican Month and all that.
[INAUDIBLE]
ain't nobody talking to [INAUDIBLE].
Nobody talking to you.
I got an hour, and I'm going to be here for an hour.
I got this [INAUDIBLE].
You didn't get it.
-White power!
-This is my hour.
I'm going to take my hour.
Barack Obama cannot take our rights away from us.
The black political machine is wanting to take away your
monuments, dig them up and move them.
But that'll never happen.
It'll never happen in America, because we will stand tall for
Nathan Bedford Forrest.
And another thing, another thing--
next time I get out at the gas station, and I'm pumping my
gas, I don't want to hear your Lil' Jon and your Triple Six
and your bohemian I don't know what music.
You live over in Africa where it came from.
If it wasn't for the white man fighting for you, you'd still
be picking cotton in the fields.
That's what you'd be doing, if it wasn't for the white man
fought for you.
NAACP, negroes, snakes, alligators, coons, and
opossums-- which one are you?
STEVEN HOWARD: Watch your step.
ROCCO CASTORO: All right.
STEVEN HOWARD: Forrest City, let me find Forrest City.
You know what that is?
ROCCO CASTORO: That's where the--
STEVEN HOWARD: Klan was founded at.
ROCCO CASTORO: Pulaski.
STEVEN HOWARD: Yes, Pulaski, Tennessee.
You know what that is?
ROCCO CASTORO: No.
STEVEN HOWARD: That's Chapel Hill, Tennessee.
That was Nathan Bedford Forrest's boyhood home.
MICHAEL CLAYTON: The reason that I joined the Ku Klux Klan
of Mississippi is because I am tired of all of the blacks and
all of the Mexicans think that they own America.
ROCCO CASTORO: In Memphis, they want to
rename one of the parks.
What do you think about that?
MICHAEL CLAYTON: I think that it's--
I think that is bull crap.
I think that it's just a bunch of blacks that want to take
all the white people's history away from them.
And if they do it in Memphis, Tennessee, then they're going
to go to another state, and they're going to try it in
another state, and another state, and another state, and
another state.
And then that's when we'll all be in concentration camps.
So be ready for it.
ROCCO CASTORO: Do you feel that your rights as a white
man are being taken away?
JAMES THOMAS: Oh, every day.
ROCCO CASTORO: Can you give examples?
JAMES THOMAS: I mean, just like the Ole Miss deal, where
they done away with the Ole Miss mascot at Ole Miss.
They took the Colonel Reb away and replaced it
with a black bear.
I mean, I can understand them changing the name because they
said it hurts their recruiting at Ole Miss.
But then they're going to turn around and call
it the black bears?
Why not a white bear?
Why did it have to be black?
-Tonight, boys, we're going to kill us a negro.
[LAUGHTER]
ROCCO CASTORO: Will you be at Saturday's rally?
STEVEN HOWARD: More than likely I will.
We'll see how things go.
Calling for rain, but we'll see what happens.
Calling for rain today, but we still--
the Ku Klux Klan is like the postal service.
Rain, shine, sleet, or snow, we're going to be out there.
Ain't no rain going to stop me.
So, I'm going to be out there.
-We gone kill us a negro!
-All right!
DAJUAN HORTON: This is the KKK.
They're going to come to Memphis, Tennessee, in the
middle of Black History Month, where Martin Luther King got
gunned down.
They're going to come here and rally deep--
really, really deep-- in my language, just to talk.
No, it's not going to happen like that.
ROCCO CASTORO: Shortly after the Klan's announcement that
they were rallying in Memphis, local Grape Street Crips
member DaJuan Horton posted a video on YouTube in which he
stated that he was forming an alliance of rival Memphis
gangs to amass in a show of force on the day of the rally.
DAJUAN HORTON: When you come, we're going to have the
biggest fucking rally you ever seen.
WorldstarHipHop, Memphis, Tennessee.
-We got this bitch.
[MUSIC - LIL WYTE, "M.E.M.P.H.I.S."]
DAJUAN HORTON: When I made the video, I just didn't see
eye-to-eye with what they were saying about how they were
going to come down here so deep like that.
And at this point, I really don't even care
whatever they do.
I just want to get my people together.
And it's going to be bigger than just their rally.
Even after their rally, which is Saturday on the 30th, I
still want to keep us together and keep this movement going.
There's all kinds of gangs down here.
And we were going to get all those different people who
kill each other--
Bloods, Crips, GDs, Vice Lords--
and if they can kill each other, I figure they can come
together and do something positive.
I've been talking to all the different gangs, just not
specific people.
Like, we haven't made truces with enemies or
nothing like that.
ROCCO CASTORO: No, I didn't mean--
DAJUAN HORTON: I would like to, though.
All my enemies, like, I love you.
Anybody who thinks I don't like you, I like you a lot.
[LAUGHS]
Down there, I would like to get a lot of weed and bring it
down there to the people, and give it to them and make them
smoke peace blunts.
Blunts make people relaxed.
COOL: This is my favorite.
I named her Cobra, because she's a Cobra.
He can't keep a gun.
He's trigger happy.
I shoot for him.
DAJUAN HORTON: So I just give him the guns.
So people with licenses carry my guns for me, while I've got
the papers.
So we're legal.
So if you run up on us in public and you've got a
problem, may God be with you.
[MUSIC - LIL WYTE, "M.E.M.P.H.I.S."]