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From Nick Valencia, CNN
updated 4:31 PM EDT, Tue June 12, 2012
The Klan chapter wanted to clean a stretch of highway in Union County, Georgia, according to paperwork obtained by CNN on Monday.
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The chapter did not immediately respond to messages left Tuesday by CNN. Previously it said it would approach the American Civil Liberties Union if its application were denied.
"All we want to do is adopt a highway," April Chambers, the chapter's secretary, said Monday. "We're not doing it for publicity. We're doing it to keep the mountains beautiful. People throwing trash out on the side of the road ... that ain't right."
"We're not racists," Chambers said. "We just want to be with white people. If that's a crime, then I don't know. It's all right to be black and Latino and proud, but you can't be white and proud. I don't understand it."
http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/12/us/georgia-kkk-highway/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
EC
(12,287 posts)from being with white people?
If you don't join the KKK you could wake up some morning being Catholic, Black, or Jewish, or (horrors) Moslem. Whatever, something other than WASP.
There is something wrong with these people's brains.
JI7
(89,264 posts)southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)is the spice of life.
frylock
(34,825 posts)you wouldn't get much color out of life now, right?
southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)of colors. Not just black and white. They look swell together when mixed but just add those colors.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)Certainly they wouldn't have stood out in an area of dark-skinned individuals. To be fair, I'm technically a caucazoid, but my youngest daughter, my mother, and I all show signs of the miniscule amount of Native American in our line. Even if I was a bigot, I wouldn't fit in with the KKK. I think it is fair for them to deny the application. Hate groups being endorsed by any government agency just isn't right. That's what the GOP is for. Good for the county.
pintobean
(18,101 posts)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_55_in_Missouri