The true believer
According to white supremacist Peter Tefft, Charlottesville was only a beginning.
“Peter Tefft, my son, is not welcome at our family gatherings any longer. I pray my prodigal son will renounce his hateful beliefs and return home. . . . We do not, never have, and never will, accept his twisted worldview.”
So said a man named Pearce Tefft, of Fargo, North Dakota, when asked about his son Peter, who was identified as one of the men who took part in the Charlottesville protests last weekend, one of those who gathered to insist on the special rights of white people.
When the story first broke last night, I thought Dad's bitterness a bit over-the-top. I mean, we're talking about his own child, his son. To tear the kid out of the family, just like that, seemed not only ill-tempered, rash, but wrong. The father in the biblical story let the prodigal son be, let him go, let him sleep with the swine. He never tossed the kid out.
