John555: "It simply could not be true that boingboing is advertising for a KKK supporter.
No comments about "these thoughtful loving whiteknights"?"

The KKK-part was an important and insightful part for me. Jacob Holdt, as he wrote, tried to test his own "openmindedness", wanted to be free from prejudices (which is: free) and so he got in contact with them and tried to find out, what's going on with them. And of course, the moment, he met them, it changed his life. He described them as caring and nice, beautiful beings - as all humans. And so, the old and not very useful prejudice turned into something else, and that is: To find out, what makes people tick like they tick. As surly no one is born bad ...

And by the way: Jacob Holdt is surly not a supporter of the political ideologies of the KKK - but he treats them with the same respect, he tries to treat everyone and wants to be treated with. It's about humans, not about objects ...

And I guess, that's the same reason, why he went with the rockefellers or kennedys or whoever picked him up. You have to get to know them, to be able to say something about them as individual human beings. I think, that's a really good thing to try out.