Peter Cvjetanovic turns 21 in a few weeks, right around the start of his senior year. But now the University of Nevada, Reno student has become a poster boy of the alt-right movement and the violence in Charlottesville. And some say he should be fired from his job and expelled from school.

While he claims membership of the alt-right he says he's not the racist people are making him out to be. 

"It was on the front page of The Guardian and my heart sank."

The white nationalist, born and raised in Reno, says he was letting some of his anger out during a rally in Virginia when the picture was taken but now he asks himself why.

"I give no excuses for that photograph. That is clearly me…It was kind of a moment-type thing. The torches were lit and there was ANTIFA there. There was lots of cameras and that emotion, it was really starting to build up."

Cvjetanovich says he went to the rally partly to protest the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee.

"I think that statue remaining would be the best way to remember their history, the good and the bad."

He's says he's had several death threats since the protest.

He admits, walking shoulder-to-shoulder with Neo-Nazis, Klansmen and other white Supremist groups reflects on him -- but says he doesn't identify with them.

"We do not accept national socialism. We do not accept fascism. We do not accept Klansmen. We are truly Identitarian. That symbol is not a symbol of racism."

And while you might associate pro-white with racism he says they're two different things.

"I hope people acknowledge that being a party to the alternative right does not make me an evil Nazi, and that being pro-white right now is dangerous, and being pro-white doesn't mean I'm anti-anyone else."

Cvjetanovich says he would still go to the Friday protest, despite the picture. But he's not sure if he would make the trip, when you consider all of what happened over the weekend.

Cvjetanovich says his trip to Virginia was kind of a test-run in the alt-right.

He says he didn't join until about a month ago and wanted to hear different people speak.

He does expect this to affect his future.