A black man led a group of neo-Nazis in the United States and decided to destroy her.

One of the largest neo-Nazi organizations in the United States was led by a black activist.

One of the largest neo-Nazi groups in the United States (National Socialist Movement (NSM)) seems to have a new leader: a black activist who promised to destroy it from the inside.

Court documents filed on Thursday suggest that James Hart Stern wants to use his new post as director and president of the National Socialist Movement to undermine the defense of the Detroit-based group and ban it at the legislative level, gaining recognition of the organization as extremist.

NSM is one of several extremist groups sued over bloodshed at a 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Stern filed a petition for the court to make a decision recognizing the organization as extremist before hearings in the Charlottesville case begin.

Stern replaced former group leader Jeff Shoupe in January 2019, according to corporate reports in Michigan. There is no information on how exactly and why Stern got this position. However, they began to compare him with the hero of the Spike Lee film "The Black Klanovite", according to the plot of which the black policeman is being introduced into the Ku Klux Klan.

Neither Stern, who lives in Moreno Valley, California, nor Shawp has yet commented on the situation.

Matthew Heimbach, a leading white nationalist activist who last year served as director of public relations at NSM, said Shoup and other group leaders were at odds with members of the organization. Heimbach added that some members "want her to remain a politically impotent gang of white supremacy."

Shoup’s departure and the appointment of Stern as the leader of the NSM, in Heimbach’s opinion, signify the end of the group in its present form.

In the 1994 year, when Shoupu turned 21 a year, he took control of the group and renamed it the National Socialist Movement. She gathered large crowds at rallies.

NSM members attended rallies and protests in full Nazi uniform, including on the march in Toledo, Ohio, which caused riots in the 2005 year.

Stern attempted to destroy the group for at least two years. A message posted on his website said that he would meet with Shope in February 2017 of the year, “to sign a proclamation recognizing that NSM is no longer a white supremacist group.”

“I have personally sought to eradicate the Ku Klux Klan and the National Socialist Movement, which are two organizations here in this country that for too long have been given privileges they do not deserve,” Stern said in a video posted on his website.

Stern was serving a prison sentence for mail fraud in the same institution as the former Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen, who was convicted of the murder of three civil rights activists. Killen died in January 2018.

In 2012, Stern said that Killen handed him a power of attorney and ownership of 40 acres of land when they were serving prison sentences together. Killen's lawyer challenged the transfer of land and tried to confirm that Killen and his family actually owned this property.

In Charlottesville August 12 2017, the neo-Nazis held a spontaneous torch processiondemanding from local authorities refuse from the demolition of the monument to the Confederate general Robert Edward Lee (participant of the civil war between the North and the South of the USA). After that, unrest broke out in the city, in which 15 people suffered. Later, in a rally against an ultra-right rally, a car drove into a crowd at high speed, one person died, and 19 was injured. On the same day, a police helicopter fell on the outskirts of the city, killing two people. Authorities attributed the crash to past events.

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