A year ago today, hundreds of white nationalists gathered in Charlottesville, Virginia at the Unite the Right rally, which took a violent turn. Ken Parker, an ex-KKK member, was one of the hundreds that marched around the quintessential Virginian city. But since the events occurred in Charlottesville, Ken Parker has completely turned his life around.

One year later, Parker is trying to undo the wrongs he committed, and that’s partially due to people he encountered following the Charlottesville rally. On August 12, 2018, Parker dressed in a black shirt that had two lightning bolts on the collar, signifying his membership in the American neo-Nazi group, the National Socialist Movement. Parker had joined the KKK in 2012 but then decided to become a Nazi when “the clan wasn’t hateful enough” for him. READ MORE


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