Jordan Green will be my guest on WCOA’s “Real News with Rick Outzen” tomorrow at 7 a.m.
The Raw News reporter linked the four Pensacola teenage boys arrested last August to a national hate network, 2119 Blood and Soil Crew.
“I’m an old alt-weekly journalist myself,” Green wrote when he replied to my interview request. “And I’m really glad to engage with local media on this story — it’s affected Pensacola most acutely, after all.”
Raw Story today published the second part of this investigation: Parents of ‘2119’ Nazi teens haunted by fear and regret.
Here is his bio on Raw Story:
Jordan Green is an investigative correspondent based in Greensboro, N.C., who covers right-wing extremism for Raw Story. His work has been featured in a host of publications, including the Washington Post, The Daily Beast, The Nation, In These Times and Sojourners.
Prior to joining the staff of Raw Story in March 2021, Green spent 16 years covering housing, policing, nonprofits and music as a reporter and editor at Triad City Beat in North Carolina and Yes Weekly. Green’s exposé on Medicaid fraud by a bogus drug-treatment program placed third for the Association of Alternative Newsmedia’s David Carr Investigative Reporting Award in 2020, while his reporting on how tax revaluations discriminated against Black homeowners in Winston-Salem won the N.C. Press Association’s second-place award for investigative reporting in 2013.
Thank you Rick for covering this. Incredibly disturbing and glad we are having the conversation locally
Rick, thank you so much for continuing to report this. Many people I speak with privately share my opinion that this is something that needs continued coverage and shouldn’t be brushed over lightly. Not many people, however, are willing to say that.
The community should be hugely grateful to Mayor Reeves as well for speaking out about this. To the best of my knowledge (I certainly could have missed something) he is the only local public official that went on official record against these acts of hatred. We can’t just all sit quietly and hope this growing scourge disappears through magical thinking. Our country is being infected with more of this dangerous belief system daily because a multitude of good people refuse to speak up. Giving this the disinfecting sunlight of exposure shouldn’t be left to a handful of people to shoulder. Much respect to you for being one of the people willing to keep the necessary discussion going.