KKK leader: We're not a hate group. Trust us.

[marmar]

CECIL COUNTY, MD. — Members of the Ku Klux Klan repeatedly told people in attendance at a meeting in Cecil County on Friday night that they don't have a problem with people of other colors.

They're just part of an organization that wants to take back their country, which they feel is going down the wrong path.

"If we don't stop Barack Obama, if we don't stop this government all together that is running us into the ground, working us like dogs, so that they can keep taking it and giving it to somebody else, we're not going to have a country," said Richard Preston, imperial wizard of the 2-year-old Confederate White Knights of Rosedale, Md., said.

Preston spoke to about 50 people in attendance at the Cecil County Administration Building near Elkton. Friday's meeting was part of an ongoing attempt by this group and other Klan chapters to gain support for their organization and to start shedding their hate-group image. ....................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.freep.com/article/20131221/NEWS07/312210045/KKK-leader-We-re-not-a-hate-group

[darkangel218]

1. What a bunch of lying assholes.

Grrrrr

[LiberalElite]

2. They're going to

hold public meetings "all over America" huh? Can't wait till they come to NYC.

[HughBeaumont]

3. Didn't they try doing this sort of thing in the 1980s?

And didn't it fail as miserably then as it's going to now?

Even white supremacists find the Klan dated.

[geomon666]

4. Oh ok

'We're not a hate group. We just think blacks are rooinin this country.'

[meow2u3]

5. If the KKK is not a hate group

than al-Qaeda is not a terrorist organization, the Pope is a Buddhist, and a bear shits in the toilet.

[Hoyt]

6. I had a run in with a grand wizard of kkk on a forum once. The POS

claimed he was a "civil rights activist." These folks, and millions of nonmember bigots, are sickening.

[Enrique]

7. "we can only ask you to trust us"

But not all in the assembly are buying the Klan's new image.

Kalil Zaky, an African American, asked Preston how the Klan was not considered a hate group based on its history.

Preston said the Klan was not a hate group, adding others have labeled it as such. Preston did say there were things done during the Civil Rights era that were wrong, but they are no longer this group.

"We can only ask you to trust us," Preston told him. Zaky, who left before the nearly two-hour meeting ended, was not convinced.

[Gothmog]

8. I trust the ADL and the SPLC

I remember seeing the KKK bookstore in a suburb of Houston when I was in undergrad

[spanone]

9. fuck the kkk and every single one of it's members.....in fact, fuck them twice