"Missouri KKK Leader: Ferguson Protests Are Boosting Recruitment"

[shenmue]

http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/2014/11/missouri_kkk_leader_says_ferguson_protests_boosting_recruitment.php



Ugh. Just ugh.

From the article:

"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.

[loyalsister]

1. "These Ferguson protesters are the best recruiters since Obama,"

..... "Normally we might hear from ten people a week in Missouri, and now we're hearing from more like fifty people a week. Sometimes, depending on these news stories, we get 100, 200 calls in a day."

I guess there's something refreshing about the honesty. I have a much clearer picture something I have read, about distinctions between southern vs. northern racists. I have also had some conversations with black friends who have told me that that is accurate.

I think it probably also applies to other regional variations but the north south difference is very common. In the south, racism is mostly unguarded so that people of color know where they stand. In the north it's more subtle and a person's true attitudes toward people of color are hidden.

I think awareness of this statement has potential to make it uglier and on the other hand it offers fair warning....

Yesterday, Ancona's group released a flier that promises to use "lethal force" in response to violent protesters.

"You have awakened a sleeping giant," the flier reads. "The good people of St. Louis County of all races, colors and creeds will not tolerate your threats of violence against our police officers, their families and our communities."

God, I wonder what would have happened during the civil rights movement in the 60s if gun ownership had been considered an inalienable right, as it is in MO. This is the moment part of the NRA radicals have been hoping for especially if there are successful provocations. The well armed KKK exercising that strategy is what I fear most at this point.

[Old Nick]

2. "The Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan"?

Then how can they have a guy named Ancona as IW? (I'm assuming you know the history of the Klan.)