Black Girl Accidentally Receives a KKK Membership Drive Invite
A Charleston, South Carolina branch of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) has been spearheading a membership drive lately particularly in the West Ashley Pierpoint part of the city. Ironically, a mistake was made when an unidentified young Black girl received the invite to join the Whites-only organization, reports CBS News.
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The young girl, who was disturbed about receiving the unwelcome invite, turned it over to the local authorities. In fact, many of the city’s residents have been placed on the organization’s mailing list according to the Charleston County Sheriff’s department. Residents have been bringing in the membership drive letters into the sheriff’s office to let them know about the recruiting that is being conducted by the racist organization.‘LIKE’ NewsOne’s FB Page To Stay Up On Black News From Around The World
The county sheriff Major Jim Brady says that the KKK’s membership efforts are not illegal and they are certainly not breaking any laws. Brady says the group is free to invite whomever they want to become members of their organization. The sheriff office administrators have been logging into evidence and documenting the invites that they’ve been receiving from the town’s residents who have taken offense to the blatant requests.
The national director of the KKK Thomas Arthur Robb is naturally defending the actions of the organization’s local chapters. Robb, who is based in Arizona says that members are basically on auto-pilot and conduct their membership drives as they see fit. In response to the Black girl who erroneously received the invite Robb says that was a definite mistake:
If a Black person got it, it’s just an accident. We’re not trying to recruit blacks.”
The KKK got its roots in the south in the late 1860′s. The organization has throughout the years advocated White supremacy, White nationalism, and is anti-immigration and anti-communism. Group members have exercised their thirst for White power through extreme terrorist violence. Currently, there are estimates of 3,000 to 5,000 who are card-carrying members of the group.
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Black Girl Accidentally Receives a KKK Membership Drive Invite
Ruth Manuel-Logan
Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:52:43 GMT
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