Glen Keith Allen
My dues-paying [to the National Alliance] was many years ago. What connections I had, I kept to myself.
I think it’s healthy to identify with your racial past, your ancestors. I don’t think that’s unique to Europeans, or Japanese, or Africans. I do think there’s an amount of identity, pride in your race, that’s not permitted today. I also understand it can be obnoxious and create violence, and that’s not acceptable.
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— Glen Keith Allen, a former lawyer with DLA Piper, commenting on race in America following his recent termination from the City of Baltimore’s Litigation and Claims Practice Group. Allen was let go after his former ties to National Alliance, a white supremacy group, were made known by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
In a statement given to the Baltimore Sun, Allen said:
“Whether you believe me or not, I’m not a member of the National Alliance, haven’t been for many years. You cannot find a single person who can say, ‘Glen Allen’ treated me disrespectfully.”
He said of his past affiliation with the group: “I will acknowledge emphatically that that was a huge mistake.”
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