When I was participating in HOBY Kentucky, I met a wonderful woman who is the Reverend of a small church, St. Andrews Episcopal Church. We were doing our community service project and helping them with their garden which they use to help feed the community. Her parishioners are mainly people from Somalia, Liberia and Niger. She sent me this news article about flyers that were left in their white neighbors driveways...here is the news article: KKK Recruitment Flyers Found In Neighborhood WLEX-TV updated 6/16/2014 12:47:40 AM ET Some residents of a Lexington neighborhood were alarmed to find flyers promoting the Ku Klux Klan left on their streets overnight. It happened in the Glen Eagles subdivision. Most families in the neighborhood didnt notice until Sunday morning that someone went through the streets Saturday night, leaving dozens of little white flyers in their driveways on Polo Club Blvd. Its terrible! My God! Its terrible, said one neighbor, who wanted to remain anonymous. Kinda scary. Im holding this Ku Klux Klan thing in my hands, this is very troubling, said neighbor Rob Lee. Are there troubles in your neighborhood? Contact the Traditional Knights of Ku Klux Klan, reads one of the flyers. Another flyer promises protection from the Klan, you can sleep tonight knowing that the Klan is awake. The flyers are urging people in the neighborhood to become Klan members. To me, its anti-American. I dont think a good American citizen would do something such as this, said Lee. A phone number on the flyers gives an automated message against racial equality. When people call the number, they will hear a recording saying, white people will simply not buy the equality propaganda any more and have begun to doubt some of the anti-Klan hysteria that has been said in school and from TV and movies. Lee says hes shocked. I just think its wrong to be racist, he said. Neighbors say theyve called police. nbcnews/id/55422093/#.U6B5DPldV7w The KKK also left out flyers in a Pulaksi County community on the eve of Martin Luther King Jr. Day this year. LEX 18 contacted the KKK for comment both times, but our calls have not been returned.
Posted on: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 17:42:42 +0000
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