KKK wants to ‘adopt’ highway in Georgia

[one...two...tree 2,762]

A group affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan wants to "adopt" a mile-long stretch of highway in Georgia.

According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Georgia Dept. of Transportation is currently reviewing the May 21 request--filed by International Keystone Knights of the KKK in Union County--to clean up part of 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," according to the department's website.

The state attorney general's office is expected to decide Monday.

"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 state officials to reject the application.

"This is about membership building and rebranding their name in a public way," Brooks said. "What's next, are we going to let Neo-Nazis or the Taliban or al-Qaida adopt 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 Interstate 55 south of St. Louis, after a federal judge ruled that the Missouri Dept. of Transportation could not keep the group out of the cleanup program.

The Georgia KKK group said they would file a lawsuit if the state rejects their application.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/kkk-adopt-highway-georgia-152109663.html

[unlockingsky 94]

what if al qaeda wants to adopt a highway too?

[Danno 1,228]

FRom what we read in the news "The Klan" no longer exists due to legal actions ( they were sued out of business).

Does this group have any associations with illegal activity?

IF not, let em pick up trash if they want to.

[ready4ONE 5,400]

FRom what we read in the news "The Klan" no longer exists due to legal actions ( they were sued out of business).

Does this group have any associations with illegal activity?

IF not, let em pick up trash if they want to.

The groups Exalted Cyclops wants to thank you for your participation in this thread.

[Danno 1,228]

The groups Exalted Cyclops wants to thank you for your participation in this thread.

Cool.

Anything worthwhile you want to add to the conversation?

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

They tried this in Missouri. They let it go about 1 month and when no one actually came to clean the highway they revoked it and then named the interstate Rosa Parks Memorial Highway

Edited June 11, 2012 by Sousuke

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

They can pick trash at night, the area lit by burning crosses, and easy to see with those white hoods and robes.

[B1Bob 20]

I am pretty sure no gives a rats pootie about the Klan here in Ga. So does it bother you that the blank panthers put a 10,000 dollar bounty on Zimmerman head and no one raised an eyebrow.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

Does the NAACP 'adopt' any highways?

[Danno 1,228]

Does the NAACP 'adopt' any highways?

If they did it wouldn't be in the White areas.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

If they did it wouldn't be in the White areas.

Now, why would you say something like that?

[MyLittlePony 340]

KKK all the way.

[Danno 1,228]

KKK all the way.

Either that or CBC all the way (Congressional Black Caucus.)

Both groups focus on their race and neither one welcomes others in.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Black_Caucus

[MyLittlePony 340]

Either that or CBC all the way (Congressional Black Caucus.)

Both groups focus on their race and neither one welcomes others in.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Black_Caucus

You spelled Caucus wrong it is cockus In all kidding side id idint know the KKK still existed.

[Danno 1,228]

You spelled Caucus wrong it is cockus In all kidding side id idint know the KKK still existed.

I think they got sued out of existence, now there are all these individual type groups with no central control.

Their views aside it's hard to believe in this day and age people are still donning the cartoonish garb.

Back when David Duke was involved in the Klan he did away with the robes and all that.... and according to Wiki, he moved it towards non-violence, brought in women and Catholics too (white of course).