Article 5QMB7 Inside America's last whites-only church – video

Inside America's last whites-only church – video

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Amudalat Ajasa, Tom Silverstone, Charlie Phillips
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In rural Minnesota, a fringe Heathen group known as the Asatru Folk Assembly has purchased a local church - and membership is strictly whites-only. They worship Nordic, pre-Christian gods and they call themselves a 'folk religion' that only accepts those with northern European ancestry. Their racially exclusive ideology is protected by the first amendment.

Amudalat Ajasa visits the church to understand how it is gaining influence across the country and to meet the anti-racist Heathens fighting back to reclaim their religion

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