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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe KKK is leaving fliers — and candy — on lawns across nation
https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2016/09/20/kkk-leaving-fliers-and-candy-lawns-across/GmR3RkRODAUYh1GEv42fbM/story.html?p1=Article_Recommended_ReadMore_Pos3Inside, they found a disturbing message.
Are there troubles in your neighborhood? the fliers read. Contact the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan today!
Printed on the crinkled slips of paper was an image of a hooded Klansman pointing a finger in the style of the iconic Uncle Sam recruitment poster, along with something of a slogan: You can sleep tonight knowing the Klan is awake.
Hajzus said she and others believe a new white supremacist cell in the area might be behind the campaign....Similar packages have recently turned up in communities around the country from California to Kansas to New Jersey many of them in the roughly 15 months since Dylann Roof allegedly gunned down nine African Americans at a church in Charleston, South Carolina.
Each incident follows a similar pattern, with residents waking up to find small plastic bags on their front lawns containing pro-KKK missives. The bags are often weighed down by rocks and sometimes come with a few candies stuffed inside.......nearly identical packages showed up at homes in Whittier, California, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The flier inside contained a disparaging screed against African Americans and came with a rock and a lollipop, one longtime resident told the paper. It also listed a phone number and a mailing address for the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, she said. A week earlier, 100 residents in Fullerton, California, found similar packages at their homes, the LA Times reported.
In July, hundreds of residents in three Indiana counties received fliers also stuffed into bags with rocks criticizing immigrants and homosexuals and calling on people to wake up and join the United Northern and Southern Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, the Indianapolis Star reported. Similar Baggies have turned up in Michigan, New Jersey, Kansas, Alabama, and elsewhere since 2015.....
virgogal
(10,178 posts)Why would this organization do this? Makes no sense.
MADem
(135,425 posts)This organization is full of fucknuts who want more fucknuts to join them--that is their motivation.
usedtobedemgurl
(1,139 posts)to a bag holding a KKK recruitment flyer. There was no rock or candy, just a bag like the local new chose to deliver their paper in. Why on earth would this sound fishy? Why would an organization recruit, especially when racists are coming out of the woodwork and looking for a place of solidarity? Hmmmm......to increase their numbers and 'power'?
virgogal
(10,178 posts)These hate groups don't need little bags of candy and rocks to recruit. It makes no sense.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Not just internet posts but news stories and police reports. You might see for yourself if you google KKK candy.
Kingofalldems
(38,459 posts)virgogal
(10,178 posts)tonyt53
(5,737 posts)Watch it start up all over again. We should all applaud their efforts. You can't hurt those jackasses by calling them racists or bigots, but you sure can hurt them monetarily.
3catwoman3
(24,007 posts)...and the wearing of goofy costumes that hide one's face should be something that one outgrows no later than age 12.
MADem
(135,425 posts)And if it requires modification of bedsheets, all bets are off....
3catwoman3
(24,007 posts)...sci-fi conventions are exempted from this.
spanone
(135,844 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)Let's play them off, stage right!
spanone
(135,844 posts)they had their robes on but no hoods. i proudly told them to go fuck themselves....and i say it to this day.
america should shit them out it's ass.
what are some things communities can do, immediately, to organize and repudiate this? If someone were trying to recruit my family, if the KKK were trying to make inroads in my neighborhood, I'd want an immediate push back. Some organizing force to reject and eject them. (I'm not referring to physical force)
Is there such a thing?
greatauntoftriplets
(175,742 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)Horrid people.
Initech
(100,081 posts)dembotoz
(16,808 posts)pennies from heaven
Calculating
(2,955 posts)It's still not cool to be openly racist, but it's become more socially acceptable to hate on certain religions and cultures.