Revenge of the KKK? Burning crosses in NC

Got this link in an email from Truthout and I didn't see it in a search of recent diaries...

 Burning Crosses Signal Return of Ku Klux Klan
 By Andrew Buncombe
 The Independent UK

 Saturday 28 May 2005

    Police in Durham, North Carolina, have launched an investigation after three crosses were set alight in one night - triggering fears that the Ku Klux Klan may have targeted the city. Yellow leaflets, purportedly produced by the KKK, were found at the site of one of the burning crosses.

Link to original story...

Here's another excerpt...

    Joe Roy, chief investigator for the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Centre, an Alabama-based campaign group, said that North Carolina had 37 active "hate groups", including neo-Confederate and neo-Nazi organisations. Of all of these, the Klan is most active.

    "You've got a lot of Klan presence in North Carolina - always have," said Mr Roy. "Something may have touched them off." In recent weeks there have been other reports of KKK leaflets being distributed across the South. In Philadelphia, Mississippi, where in two weeks the trial is due to start of an 80-year-old former Klan member accused of organising the 1964 killing of three civil rights workers, leaflets apparently printed by the KKK were discovered two weeks ago.

Words are failing me right now.

•  KKK has no hold in Durham

  I live in Durham.

  Certainly Durham has racial tension---currently over the school board and superintendent.  That doesn't mean that the Klan have any traction here.  On the contrary, it is because Durham is racially almost equally divided and democratic---people speak their minds here---that our problems with race are so evident.  We fight out our disagreements in the papers and in meetings, not with cowardly cross burnings.

  by steveb on Sat May 28, 2005 at 02:44:13 PM PDT

  •  asdf

    good to hear

    by Muboshgu on Sat May 28, 2005 at 03:10:49 PM PDT

  •  Know this

    whoever has done this must be prosecuted but be aware that there are those who create these senarios to keep divisions within communities and the country.  IF this is in fact is what happened there, then those people must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for that in my opinion is absolutely unconscionable and very destructive to communities and to this country.  

    by Soma on Sat May 28, 2005 at 03:20:25 PM PDT

•  air america

  talked about this on friday, bringing to my attention that the hate monger preacher who talks about Matthew Sheppard being in hell..I can't remember the guy's last name..anyway, he and his minions had been in town a few days prior, making noise about something. they were wondering if these  "God hates fags" people had done it.  seems like the locations had something coincidental about them.  Sorry I don't know more, but I did hear this much.

  by asilk on Sat May 28, 2005 at 04:04:14 PM PDT

  •  That's Fred Phelps of Westboro Baptist Church. n/t

    by pattyp on Sat May 28, 2005 at 04:57:52 PM PDT