Frank Meeink (born Francis Steven Bertoline; May 7, 1975) is a former white supremacist skinhead gang member in the United States.
[1] Born in South Philadelphia, Meeink lived a violent and unpleasant childhood with a lack of a structured family.
Meeink has some ancestors who were Jewish but had no idea of this fact until much later in his life when he left prison in the midst of his anti-hate work.
[7] The film's main character, Derek, played by Edward Norton, becomes a skinhead after his father is killed by black drug dealers, and helps start a Neo-Nazi gang in Los Angeles.
In prison, he too forms a bond with an African American inmate, and they share love of basketball, among other things.
[4] This organization was created to give young kids a chance to stay out of the way of violence and have fun while participating.
If you look at Fox News and then you compare that to hate radio from Rwanda, and what started that civil war, there’s comparisons there.