In February 2012, a small group of white supremacists climbed off a charter bus in Washington and set off towards the US Capitol. All but one were men, wearing neat shirts and ties. The Anti-Defamation League reported that they had been given instructions in advance on how to dress – no Ku Klux Klan robes, no Nazi uniforms, all racist tattoos to be covered – because they were posing for the day as civil rights activists.
At the Capitol, they unfurled a banner reading “STOP WHITE GENOCIDE IN SOUTH AFRICA”.
Standing between two men holding the banner was the group’s only woman, about 70 years old and wearing what Americans might have taken as a somewhat severe-looking khaki shirt. In reality it was a uniform stripped of its original insignia, which consisted of three interlocking red number 7s radiating from a central point: the symbol of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB). She always wore it on occasions like this.
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