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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMissouri KKK Leader: Ferguson Protests Are Boosting Recruitment
http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/2014/11/missouri_kkk_leader_says_ferguson_protests_boosting_recruitment.phpThe head of Missouri's most visible KKK group claims his "Klanline" is being flooded with calls from prospective recruits angered by the continuing protests in Ferguson.
"Missouri is definitely on fire right now," says Frank Ancona, the imperial wizard of the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. In the past the group made headlines by passing out fliers for a KKK neighborhood watch program, but Ancona tells Daily RFT the Ferguson protests are attracting a new wave hopeful hood-wearers. He says he's inducted 50 new members to the group's Missouri chapter this month, and numbers are up in Ohio and Alabama as well.
When we last checked in with the publicity-friendly Ancona, he was engaged in a feud with a South Carolina-based KKK group that allegedly threw a September fundraiser for Darren Wilson, the Ferguson officer currently under grand jury investigation for the August 9 shooting of unarmed teen Michael Brown.
"Personally, I think we need to wait until we see all the facts, all the evidence that's being gathered.... I don't want to try to gain or exploit this situation." he told Daily RFT in late August.
"Missouri is definitely on fire right now," says Frank Ancona, the imperial wizard of the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. In the past the group made headlines by passing out fliers for a KKK neighborhood watch program, but Ancona tells Daily RFT the Ferguson protests are attracting a new wave hopeful hood-wearers. He says he's inducted 50 new members to the group's Missouri chapter this month, and numbers are up in Ohio and Alabama as well.
When we last checked in with the publicity-friendly Ancona, he was engaged in a feud with a South Carolina-based KKK group that allegedly threw a September fundraiser for Darren Wilson, the Ferguson officer currently under grand jury investigation for the August 9 shooting of unarmed teen Michael Brown.
"Personally, I think we need to wait until we see all the facts, all the evidence that's being gathered.... I don't want to try to gain or exploit this situation." he told Daily RFT in late August.
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Missouri KKK Leader: Ferguson Protests Are Boosting Recruitment (Original Post)
KamaAina
Nov 2014
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randys1
(16,286 posts)1. The DA and KKK and most white folks in the area WANT the community to do what
ANYBODY else would do in this situation (react violently) so they can point and say "look, we told you they were animals".
If violence breaks out it will be because the white racists provoked it, it will be because there is no justice in Ferguson or many places in America and you can push only so far before physics demands a push back.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)2. Who made them the color guard?
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)3. Color guard?
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)4. It's in the script.