Klan Highway: KKK Seeks to Adopt Georgia Road
by Free Britney at .Members of the Ku Klux Klan are looking to take part in the Adopt-a-Highway program for a mile-long stretch of road in Georgia, according to reports.
According to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Georgia Department of Transportation is currently reviewing the request made May 21 by the Klan.
The application was filed by International Keystone Knights of the KKK in Union County to clean up Route 515 in the Appalachian Mountains in Blairsville.
"Any civic-minded organization, business, individual, family, city, county, state, or federal agency is welcome to volunteer in the Georgia Adopt-A-Highway program," at least according to the department's website.
The state attorney general's office is expected to decide shortly.
"We just want to clean up the doggone road," Harley Hanson, who filed the application, told the paper. "We're not going to be out there in robes."
But Rep. Tyrone Brooks, head of the Georgia Association of Black Elected Officials, called on Georgia state officials to reject the application.
"This is about membership building and re-branding in a public way," he said.
"What's next, neo-Nazis or the Taliban or al-Qaida adopting highways?"
"We are good, decent Christian Americans," Hanson, the group's "exalted cyclops," added. "What we're trying to do is to work with the local community."It's not the first time the KKK has participated in an "Adopt-a-Highway" program.
In 2000, the KKK successfully adopted part of I-55 south of St. Louis after a federal judge ruled that the Missouri DOT could not bar them from doing so.
The Georgia KKK group said it will file a lawsuit if the state rejects its application.
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Comments (18 Total)
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Stop, stop, and stop! Some of you all just need to shut the fuck up. Kkk my ass! Alot of you have the devil so far up your ass, it just don't make no damn sense to me. You all have so much hate, it is just stupid. Hell yeah, Obama is the president and your point!
Forgive the typos, we all make errors. Look at the ignorant people, who will STILL vote for Obama, with his terrible record.
Jenna, you're just seeing what you want to see. Put the joint down, and read the words. I DON'T LIKE THE NEGATIVE STEREOTYPE, OF ANY RACE OR RELIGION. I LISTED THE NEGATIVE STEREOTYPE F BLACKS. NOT ALL BLACKS FIT THAT. QUITE A FEW DO. SOME BLACKS CLAIM RACISM AT THE DROP OF A HAT. YOU'RE DOING 75 IN A 55 ZONE. YOU GET A TICKET, IS IT BECAUSE YOU'RE BLACK, OR BECAUSE YOU WERE SPEEDING. YO ARE A MORON, IF I WERE RACIST, I WOULD SAY, OK, TO THE KLAN'S WISHES. There are many descent blacks, there is also a lot of the negative stereotypes, O lole to refer to as Niggers. Uh oh, a white person, used the 'N' word, go crazy!
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