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Klan publications distributed in Virginia
Ku Klux Klan Publications Found in Virginia
A Ku Klux Klan publication was circulated in a pair of area neighborhoods this weekend, to the dismay of some residents.
Copies of "The Klansman's Voice" were found Sunday morning in the Fontana neighborhood near Pantops Mountain and in the Greenbrier neighborhood in Charlottesville, residents said.
"We got it early in the morning, and on the way to church we saw them all the way down our road," said Steve Stewart, who lives on Via Florence Road near Fontana Drive.
"I was a little annoyed that someone may have thought that this neighborhood was susceptible to that kind of literature," Stewart said.
Former Charlottesville City Council candidate Linda Seaman got a copy in the driveway of her Greenbrier home as well.
"The saving grace was it was pouring rain so you couldn't read the thing," said Seaman, whose neighborhood was peppered with the newsletters.
The publication, distributed by the United Northern and Southern Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, draws parallels between the Klan and the NAACP, advertises for a white Christian scholarship fund and seeks to refute the Klan's bad rap.
"Many people want to perpetuate the 'old' Klan, they want people to believe we hate all Blacks," one article says.
"We have no problem with Blacks, as long as they are hard working members of the community."
Similar fliers were deposited along Fontana Drive in February.
Ku Klux Klan Publications Found in Virginia
A Ku Klux Klan publication was circulated in a pair of area neighborhoods this weekend, to the dismay of some residents.
Copies of "The Klansman's Voice" were found Sunday morning in the Fontana neighborhood near Pantops Mountain and in the Greenbrier neighborhood in Charlottesville, residents said.
"We got it early in the morning, and on the way to church we saw them all the way down our road," said Steve Stewart, who lives on Via Florence Road near Fontana Drive.
"I was a little annoyed that someone may have thought that this neighborhood was susceptible to that kind of literature," Stewart said.
Former Charlottesville City Council candidate Linda Seaman got a copy in the driveway of her Greenbrier home as well.
"The saving grace was it was pouring rain so you couldn't read the thing," said Seaman, whose neighborhood was peppered with the newsletters.
The publication, distributed by the United Northern and Southern Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, draws parallels between the Klan and the NAACP, advertises for a white Christian scholarship fund and seeks to refute the Klan's bad rap.
"Many people want to perpetuate the 'old' Klan, they want people to believe we hate all Blacks," one article says.
"We have no problem with Blacks, as long as they are hard working members of the community."
Similar fliers were deposited along Fontana Drive in February.