Sometimes, the truth is just unbelievable, but is anyone really surprised?
http://www.kctv5.com/...
LEXINGTON, MO (KCTV) -
Some residents of the quiet central Missouri town of Lexington were stunned to wake up Monday morning to find recruitment letters from the Ku Klux Klan on their front lawns.
One of the letters said, "You can sleep tonight knowing the Klan is awake." The two letters were placed in plastic bags along with a rock to weigh down the bag, which were tossed onto front lawns along Franklin, Main and other streets in Lexington.
Frank Ancona, an imperial wizard for the Traditionalist American Knights of the KKK, said it is a harmless message as part of an effort to recruit more women members.
"We are trying to form neighborhood watches in a lot of different communities," Ancona said.
Hate as harmless fun. Who knew. This runs counter to all of the messages that they have received in radio, tv, etc. in regards to race relations in the US hasn't it?
Let's just cover the issues, shall we?
"We're not discriminating against anyone," said Ancona, who did a telephone interview with KCTV5. He is based in Park Hills, MO. "We are looking for criminal activity in our neighborhoods. If a white guy is breaking into an African-American's car, we're going to call law enforcement and let them know about it."
He said the Klan wants to foster a feeling of safety in neighborhoods.
"We're out looking for criminal activity in our neighborhoods and we would report it to law enforcement," he said. "We are not an anti-organization. We are for our race, for our people."
He said only white Christian men and women can join the KKK, saying the organization wants to maintain "the white man's" supremacy in the United States.
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Rector said residents should call police if they see any Klan behavior and not to confront the members.
Hanna said racism needs to end in the United States.
"It's 2013. People need to realize them days are over with," Hanna said. "What's going through people's minds to promote something like this. To me, it's racism ... It has to stop."
At least one community member nails it and brought this to the press; but as you note from the video, the KKK views damning their association to be reverse racism.. where have you heard that before?
But, let's really be honest.. Republicans and others have been so good about opposing racist stereotypes lately.. I mean, Sarah Palin was doing her damnedest to promote brotherly love and lose racial stereotypes when she used jim crow era references.
http://www.dailykos.com/...
I mean, the KKK trying to make a comeback? Almost unthinkable. Republicans have done nothing to try and stir up racist fears.
http://hiphopwired.com/...
"It's Obama's America, is it not? Obama's America, white kids getting beat up on school buses now," he said. "You put your kids on a school bus, you expect safety but in Obama's America the white kids now get beat up with the black kids cheering, 'Yay, right on, right on, right on, right on,' and, of course, everybody says the white kid deserved it."
He then went on to sarcastically question weather Obama was going to step up an defend the black children on the school bus as he did Henry Louis Gates Jr.
"I wonder if Obama is going to come to the defense the assailants the way he did his friend Skip Gates up there at Harvard. I mean the assailants are presumed innocent due to the white racism we all know runs rampant in America," he said.
And members of the Republican House have taken every effort to speak positively of others and never encourage the white-men supremacy ideal.
http://politic365.com/...
“My father had a ranch; we used to have 50-60 wetbacks to pick tomatoes,” Rep. Don Young, a Republican from Alaska, told radio station KRBD-FM matter-of-factly. “It takes two people to pick the same tomatoes now. It’s all done by machine,” he added with zero realization that his words in the sentence before would inspire condemnation.
Young’s use of the racist term to describe migrant workers is yet another bad moment on the rocky road of Republican minority outreach. Just last week GOP Chair Reince Priebus outlined those new efforts.
I mean, with this kind of media and open-hearted approach to minorities, how on earth did the KKK think it would find a willing audience who would gobble up their hatred?
Oh... wait... I guess they figured the warm up act might be over.