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Leo Vincelette Felton (born 1970) is an American white supremacist of partial African American descent. In 2002, Felton and his white supremacist girlfriend were convicted of bank robbery and plotting to build a bomb in Boston to attack Jewish and black Americans, colloquially referred to as the 2002 white supremacist terror plot. Felton was released from prison in 2019 after serving 17 years.
Early life
Leo Felton was born in 1970. His father had a previous failed marriage to a black woman, from which Felton had 7 black half brothers and sisters. His mother later came out as a lesbian and, with Felton, moved in with her girlfriend, who was a feminist author, and her two daughters. All other members of this household were white, and Felton's father was absentee. where he attempted to murder a black taxi driver. In prison, he became a self-described white supremacist, seeing the white inmates as the only people there he could relate to, and an organizer for white supremacist groups. Academic George Michael described him as a "fanatical white supremacist". He justified his white supremacy in this way, despite his ancestry. He continued to hide this from other white supremacists, who he viewed as "materialist" in their racism and unfamiliar with Yockey, and claimed that he was "1/4 English and 3/4 Italian". This largely worked and he was accepted by other white supremacists, networking among neo-Nazis in every prison he transferred to, and creating a system for obtaining recommended reading books for white racist inmates.
See also
- Dan Burros
- Frank Collin
- Lawrence Dennis