Days after the massacre at a black church in South Carolina, some Americans woke to a vile surprise: KKK fliers with candy on their lawns.
The propaganda—stuffed into plastic baggies with pieces of peppermint
and Tootsie Rolls—included a phone number for the Loyal White Knights
of the Ku Klux Klan. Planted under the cover of darkness, the fliers
were distributed in California, Kansas, Alabama, Mississippi, and
Georgia.
It’s not something local police departments are taking lightly, and
some have even reached out to the FBI for assistance. The Rockdale
County sheriff’s department in Conyers, Georgia, collected more than 80
fliers and is investigating whether anyone can be charged with criminal
trespass or littering.
“Whether it was a joke or from an organization doesn’t matter to me,”
Sheriff Eric Levett told The Daily Beast. “The fact that it was done
during this time is ignorant and cowardly.”
A message on the hate-spewing hotline, based in North Carolina, salutes 21-year-old Dylann Roof, who was charged with murder for the killing nine people in Charleston. Roof penned a racist manifesto before the June 17 mass shooting and wanted to start a “race war.”
“We
in the Loyal White Knights of the KKK would like to say hail victory to
… Dylan S. Roof who decided to do what the Bible told him,” a man
chirps in the recording. “An eye for an eye. A tooth for a tooth. They
[black people] have spilled our blood too long. It’s about time someone
spilled theirs.”
The Klan’s Vile Post-Charleston Recruiting Spree - The Daily Beast
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