After Charlottesville, KKK Leader Speaks Out: 'They're Trying To Erase Us From History Books'

WESTHAMPTON BEACH, NY — With police promising "zero tolerance" as thousands descend on Boston Saturday for the "Second Boston Free Speech Rally," one well-known Ku Klux Klan leader spoke to Patch this week in an attempt to shed light on the purpose of the hate group's mission.

Chris Barker, imperial wizard of the Loyal White Knights, has set out to share his "truth" about the KKK days after violence erupted in Charlottesville, Virginia. Barker was there along with fellow white supremacists carrying torches and vowing, "Jews will not replace us."

One of the photos shared worldwide of that Charlottesville event was of Christopher Cantwell, a Long Island native.

Barker, who lives in North Carolina, believes much of the controversy over Charlottesville was sparked by the "Jewish-controlled media. They're always going to make whites look bad, even though anti-fascists and communists are the ones that started the fight. You can look at the videos. They were knocking down the barricades. It was unbelievable."

One thing Barker would like to clarify is that "white supremacists" is a misnomer. "We're all white separatists," he said. "We don't want to be around other races."

The Bible, Exodus 33:16, says, "So shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth," Barker maintains. "The Bible tells us to stay separate, and that's what we separatists are trying to do. We want a white homeland."

"Jews will not replace us"

When asked about the chanting in Charlottesville, with a crowd bearing tiki torches yelling, "Jews will not replaces us," Barker said, "I do think Jews are to replace us. Like Christ, I believe Jews are the devil."

The Bible, Barker says, in John 8, says Jews are the children of Satan, his "seed."

In Hampton Bays, where the KKK has a chapter, one of two on Long Island, a Jewish man has reportedly said "his goal is the whole ethnic replacement of the white race in the homeland," Barker said.

The bottom line, Barker says, and the fuel behind the KKK's mission, remains: "All they have to do is look at history books. Our race has a right to be on a pedestal. When we were building castles, most of the other races were living in mud huts."

"Our nation must rise up against this"

Lucius Ware, president of the eastern Long Island chapter of the NAACP, spoke out against acts of hatred and violence.

"Number one, if the potential for mass devastation is present and the ideas of those people who are conducting those efforts — their intent is to produce fear. This is nothing new. These have been tactics of the KKK before, the tactics of the Nazis," Ware said.

He added, "We have too many examples of what has happened through the years. Slavery and lynchings, the Holocaust, voter suppression, the pogroms in Italy. The list goes on and on. Separation and violence have been a part of their history. It's something that's not going to be tolerated and it's dangerous for everybody. It will lead to the destruction of lives, and institutions — and hope. Our nation must rise up against this — it's something that should have died a long time ago."

But Barker does not agree.

Immigrants, he said, are invading "our homeland and our welfare systems," Barker said. "There are drug cartels coming across our borders and kidnapping people, violent street gangs, crime."

And, he said, "the Jewish-controlled press does not report on black-on-black crime; they're killing each other in record numbers. We're just trying to do the best job we can. The media, which is mostly for the Democratic party, will portray us in a bad light."

Speaking of President Donald Trump, Barker said because he's Republican, the media "is going to put him in a bad light," despite the fact that "Obama was the worst president in U.S. history. He pardoned all the drug dealers and murderers and spend so much time on vacation doing absolutely nothing. Trump is trying to change things. He wants to make America great again."

As for claims that Trump is "racist," Barker said, "He has Jewish people in his family. He's nowhere near being racist. Nothing like it."

Saturday's events in Charlottesville were exacerbated by the police, Barker believes. "If there had been more of a police presence, if they had done their job, none of this would have happened," Barker said. "We saw people running around with Communist flags and anti-fascist flags, hitting anybody white and running back into the crowd. Basically it was the police's fault; they were watching the people get hit, and just standing there. It was unbelievable."

When asked how it felt to be at the Charlottesville event, Barker said, "You're always going to get that f------ rush, watching it all take place."

The goal of his organization, Barker said, is equality. "We would like civil and equal rights for the right. We're standing up for our heritage. They're trying to erase us from the history books."

On slavery, Barker said there were white slaves "hundreds and hundreds of years" before black. "There's so much the world doesn't know, because it was pushed away or pushed to the side. You don't hear them talking about black-on-black crime."

And now, Barker said, monuments of Confederate leaders are being taken down. "Next they'll be taking down statues of Thomas Jefferson. Why ain't we taking down Martin Luther King statues? He was financed by Communist Russia."

Barker, according to multiple media reports, including a post in the New York Daily News, was one of two arrested and charged in a stabbing before a Trump victory parade in 2016; he has also been reportedly rumored to be an FBI informant.

He did not respond to a request for comment on either of those issues via email.

Barker also allegedly threatened a Univision journalist during an interview, calling her a "n-----," according to an article in The Independent. "We killed 6 million Jews the last time. Eleven million is nothing," he reportedly told her, according to that article in the Independent.

Patch photo courtesy of Chris Barker