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Revenge of the KKK? Burning crosses in NC

Sat May 28, 2005 at 01:49:45 PM PDT

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.

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