Adrianne Black

Adrianne Black was born in Florida in 1989 and grew up in West Palm Beach. She attended public school until third grade, when her parents took her out of school because her black teacher said the word "ain't". She was homeschooled and her education was centered on her family's beliefs. At 10 years old, Black began learning web coding, which later helped her create a page on the Stormfront site for children with similar ideas to hers. She would receive critical emails and death threats, but her father would tell her not to look at the messages, and Black has said that she was not bothered by what critics were sending her. After finishing high school, she enrolled in a community college and decided to run for a seat on the Republican executive committee. At 19 years old, she won the seat one of 111 seats with about 60 percent of the vote. She later decided that she had an interest in studying medieval European history, so in 2010, she went to the New College of Florida in Sarasota. The college was about a four-hour drive across the state and it was Black's first time away from her home. She says of her first semesters: "I'd get up in the morning, and call into my dad's radio show ... and talk about the news ... and then go to class and hang out with people who were often strong social justice advocates, and trying to live both of those lives was terrifying because I knew that one day somebody was going to type my name into Google." ==Former beliefs==

Until leaving home, Black's worldview had developed within the insular world of white nationalism where there was never doubt about what whiteness meant in the U.S. She was known for her suspicion of other races, the U.S. government, tap water, and pop culture. At age 10, she stated: "it is a shame how many White minds are wasted in that system". She told peers at New College that she was pro-choice on abortion, against the death penalty, and did not support the KKK or Nazism or white supremacy. Instead, Black emphasized that there was a difference between white nationalism and white supremacy, saying her only concern was with "massive immigration and forced integration" and how it would lead to white genocide. She said she respected rights of all races but felt that they would be better off in their own homelands, not living together. ==Renunciation of white nationalism==

Once her beliefs and ongoing participation in promoting them became public knowledge at college, she was ostracized by most of the community.--> ==Family==

Black's mother, Chloe Black, is an executive assistant for the founder of the Florida Crystals company and owns a real estate business in South and Central American countries. She has also served as spokeswoman for a charter school, Glades Academy in Pahokee, Florida, financed by Florida Crystals with the aim of lifting minority children out of poverty. Before her marriage to Don Black, she was married to David Duke. Adrianne Black's father, Don Black, who founded the website Stormfront, remains a white supremacist. He was also a Grand Wizard in the Ku Klux Klan, and a member of the American Nazi Party in the 1970s (for a time, the ANP was known as the National Socialist White Peoples' Party). In 1981, he was convicted of attempting an overthrow of the government of the island country of Dominica using firearms and served three years in jail, from 1981 to 1984. == Bibliography ==