Idaho’s only black lawmaker gets KKK membership invite [View all]

Source: Raw Story

Idaho’s only African-American lawmaker, who had a cross burned on her lawn at the age of seven, is speaking out after she said she received a hand-written invitation to join the the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.

On Saturday, Democratic state Rep. Cherie Buckner-Webb used her Facebook page to share photos of the KKK “application,” which asked for $35 and a proclamation that she was “a White Christian man or woman.”

“Check out communiqué from the KKK received this week in the mail,” she wrote. “Newsletter, Application…Really?”

“(It) was addressed by hand,” the lawmaker noted. “Something a little unsettling.”


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