This is one of those stories where I hoped someone else would have covered this story, so I wouldn’t have to.
The “supposed” KKK was back in Danville last night spewing their hatred.
The “Loyal White Knights of the KKK” tossed out small flyers in various Danville neighborhoods last night.
We’ve gotten reports from the Forest Hills and Schoolfield neighborhood about this. The small pieces of paper were in reclosable sandwich bags and were weighted down with things like rice or small pieces of candy.
Here’s the small packages that were delivered.
(Editor’s Note: I clearly do not endorse the language nor sentiment of this photo. This photo does not reflect the opinions nor actions of SouthsideCentral.)
This story is developing and we’ll add more coverage if we find anything out.
These people have no place in our communities, in my opinion. They tear down, they do not unite. Please know they have no connection with true Southerners nor with any of our flags. They are not “Christian Knights”…Christ would have nothing to do with this hatred. Christ makes us all a family. The Klan makes us divide and despise one another.
SouthsideCentral, expose these people to the light of day, please.
Oh…and KKK folks…there is a real difference between “there” and “their”. If you want to intimidate, have the wisdom to do it grammatically. And, take off the masks, like the one in the picture you disseminated. We do not respect that.
Thanks. I sat on this for over 8 hours before deciding to publish the article.
Marcus hughes and his friends organized and put on a very peaceful assembly today, and I’d have much rather made that my top article. I’m going to publish that article tomorrow, as I don’t want to associate his deeds with this hatred tonight.
God bless you and SSC for informing the community! We need to know these people are0among us.
Thanks. I’ve got an article about today’s peaceful assembly ready to go, but I don’t want it anywhere close to this disgusting story.
This sickens me. 🙁
You’re a good man Bruce…
Only incredibility small and insecure people blame “others” for what they can not achieve. I highly respect Bruce for publishing this–watch now that you have done so, other “media” outlets will be forced to do so as well.
Rev. Thomas Fowler–I couldn’t have said it better myself.
Now I come to the point of me posting a comment, Bruce and others, you should have people that received these do their best not to touch them and turn them into the police for fingerprinting. Even better, use your power to ask those in Forest Hills and elsewhere to review their surveillance equipment and if they have images of the people who did this or their vehicle to notify both the police and Bruce (if you are willing to do what you have done with the parking lot jerks).
I would be willing to bet you have some readers that have proof of who this is. I say we rip the sheet off them and expose them to the light of day.
The problem is that they could only be charged with is littering.
If I remember correctly, Danville does have an ordinance about putting flyers on cars. However, it looks these guys have bypassed this violation.
Littering is a class one misdemeanor. Better than nothing. That said, I’m not certain a littering charge would survive a first amendment challenge. That could get interesting.
Call the grammar police.
“were they belong”?
“in there place”?
Lol, I noticed this too. I’m used to people of my race being hated. However, if you want to hate, please make sure the vitriol you spew is grammatically correct. *side-eye*
A few things:
I got one of these but instead of rice, I got a Tootsie Roll. Not sure if the irony was intended or not.
I thought maybe we could see who it was by checking the website WHOIS records but whoever it is at least had the sense to use a proxy registration so it’s private.
This happened last year. Story here: http://www.wset.com/story/23354638/kkk-flyers-distributed-overnight-in-danville-neighborhood
If you look at the pic of that flyer and compare it to this one, the phone number is the same. I haven’t tried to see who might own the phone number although I’d have to believe someone would have tried last year when this happened.
The one we got had a white piece of gum in it with an eyeball on it. Freaky!!!
Ignorant cowards.
Kudos to SC for publishing this. It’s a grim reminder that we don’t have to look to the Middle East to find hateful religious extremism.
Perhaps you helped spread their word with that photo and free advertisement. Maybe ignoring the ignorance is the way to go. However this is just another remindet that idiots walk amongst us.We can use this as an opportunity to remind our neighbors we are all in this together, humans, Americans Danvillians!
I thought about that with the website and phone number clearly listed, but frankly it’s already all over the internet. I tried to figure out whose number it was by Googling it, and it’s been used up and down the east coast. It’s not too clear whose it is, but I will say I have a pretty good idea who one or two of the likely culprits were of this distribution. They’re truly repugnant individuals.
Well put, Lee. These are truly repugnant individuals with absolutely terrible grammar.
When I was on TV, my boss sucked up to these morons and gave them publicity in exchange for higher viewership. Ugh.
The flyers are part of an initiation that happens about once a year called a “night ride”. This will happen again. And no one will ever get charged because the flyers tend to be distributed late late at night, and forest hills, Cops do not patrol Forest Hills looking for crime like the would the area around Cardinal Village. Also the KKK’s head quateres for this area (p.o. box and “hot line”) are in PELHAM quite literally in Danvilles back yard. So about once a year, the good folks in forest hills can pick up this out their yards.
Is the peaceful assembly that you referenced the one that was on the front page of the R&B and identified as a protest?
Yes. It was not a protest in any possible usage of that word. I didn’t agree with the issue, but I’m going to be fair and call it what it was. A peaceful assembly.
Thank you for publishing this. It is an important reminder of our community’s legacy of hate and racism. When we lose sight of these twin evils, they are strengthened by our ignorance. What I don’t understand is all your huffing and puffing about whether you should do the story. Of course you should. That’s why the community turns to Southside Central. Thank you again.
Thanks for the kind words. I try to keep my thought process as open as possible. I don’t want people to think that I publish crap like thia for better ratings.
Sorry to quibble, but it is not “crap” for you to report it. News is news. It would be “crap” if you were to consciously NOT report it.
Never for a minute did I ever think racism was “dead,” but I was foolish enough to believe that after 9/11 Americans would push this foolishness aside. There are nations that want to blow us up (that have wanted to blow us up forever), and we still have this White/Black thing going? Wow…
A few years ago, they regularly spammed Craigslist with notices of meetings, giving a phone number with a 336 area code for further information.
I assume their posts got flagged and removed so quickly that they changed their marketing strategy to midnight littering.
Maybe they went to the Greensboro run of Avenue Q and learned that the Internet is for porn. 😉
its nice to be informed but we as a black race are already informed and always have been.by posting this article you have already done what THEIR intentions were.w/o news media and public gatherings they are just as dead as a corpse.IJS no offense.
Dmaze, your comment is made, as you say, as a member of the black race. No doubt about it, blacks understand and feel the Danville-style hatred and racism more than whites. But if we are ever to rise above this terrible legacy, isn’t it important for whites to be reminded of it also? These KKKers are as vile and cowardly as the “person” who beheaded Foley this week. You might argue that if the video of Foley’s execution had not gone around the world, the Jihadists would have been deprived of getting out their message. The point is, we need to understand their message. The more people are aware of hatred and racism, the stronger we are to work to defeat it. So I think we need to keep the bright lights shining.
A lot of people did indeed argue that about the Foley video. It’s a struggle when these things happen how to cover them. If the coverage seems too lusty and sensational (like the way that most Rupert Murdoch properties globally covered the Foley killing), it looks like glorifying the message. If no mention is made, that’s also the wrong choice. In that case, it seems the most heralded coverage focused mostly on the life of Foley.
Every one of these issues is different, and it’s why careful judgment is so important. I’m sure that’s why Bruce agonized about how and when to cover this.
The ignorance and hatred that is “perped” by these people need to be on blast everywhere, you know like a light turned on a gathering of cockroaches!
can someone tell me the difference in the kkk and gang bangers they all equal out to the same thing.The kkk is just more laid back.I have not heard of any drive by killings.
They’ll all scum but nobody here is condoning being in s gang.
They’re not remotely the same thing. They don’t even have the same causation. What type of thought process even leads to that type of statement?
Honey, where are you FROM not to know what the Klan has done in the US and what they are capable of, or to think that they “equal out” to the same thing as street gangs? If the KKK is laid back now, it’s because they have to be. They certainly weren’t during the civil rights era and before. And don’t get me wrong: I don’t condone gang violence either but the overall mission of the KKK and street gangs are 2 different things. I am a Black woman. if Klansmen were behind door #1 and gang bangers were behind door #2, I’d pick #2 in a heartbeat.
Right ON.
Did you seriously just compare the KKK to gang bangers? And hold them to a higher standard? Excuse me while I go try to make sense of this.
The local churches of Christ were the only ones books enough to take them head to head. The preacher from the Eden congregation debated a former emperial klud!! The vid is on you tube!
Are these the same churches that had troubles with the ill-named Westover Baptist (when a church moves locations but keeps the old location based name, it gets so confusing). How do they fit in with the Church of Christ movement in general? I understand that’s a difficult question because the Church of Christ is one of the least formally organized group of churches.
I believe so, from what i understand they were invited and when a teen from the coc asked a question he was assaulted. James Oldfield was the preacher that had a debate with them…search YouTube for the user bwillams531 he has the video debate up
That’s the one. They’re not affiliated with any other CoC.
They’re “hell” on any other organized religion. It’s rather fun watching Johnny & his crew tear up the big-time players in the local religion market.
Well, the CoC is often hell on any other organized religion. In fact, get a couple of sects of the CoC with slightly different views together and the real fun starts. For instance, back where I’m from there are instrumental and non-instrumental sects. They fight like cats and dogs.
My favorite local CoC episode was when R.J. & Doug Barber gathered on the steps of City Hall for a “Pray For Rain” event. The CoC had their video cameras and started questioning the heck out of them. The Barbers went to the police for help and the police told them “Public Property, they have the right to be here too.” 😀
Well i find there teaching the bible…at least they can give scriptures for everything they teach and not there opinions…and they are all super nice when i went to their tent meeting…i plan to attend the one in sept!!!
Sam…I was baptized for the second (and likely last time) in my life at a CoC. I agree with you that I find their willingness to provide specific citations very refreshing, but they are tied up just as much in contradictory doctrine as any sect. I think it’s because it is the word of God and not of man, so I find the Bible to be a fallable source of information. I try to consider the biases and world view of the men who wrote it, although I do believe they were divinely inspired. I find my own path these days.
That goes to show how ignorant people are. I feel sorry for his soul, hell is were he is going for sure. A black person will be the one he will need before he leaves this earth. You are a coward, hiding behind those white sheets.
Are many of these comments intentionally slaying the English language in an effort to point out the illiteracy of the statement in the photo? My goodness, I hope that is the reason.
Funny when al sharpton and jesse jackson spew their racist nonsense no one is up in arms. Oh and when the president was a member of a racist church… crickets chirping.
Don’t believe this for a minute. Al Sharpton is most likely behind this. Or a bunch of kids. Al likes to start stuff like this so he can come to Danville and run his mouth. He a idiot and a racist.
lol Loyal White Knight looks like karma is having its say because you wish to disgrace other klasp and rev the klans been right on many things for many years. While you sit and patch note the prophecies. If you can’t see by now what they was talking about many years ago then you need to use some math to your inspections. but I guess that’s why you maybe just a REV and not a DR.
ooh by the way Rev when you do realize the klan was never considered a political correct group then before you judge be a little wiser. and realize you don’t even have the clue of what the facemask represented. So Rev when you want the church to be politically correct you will be teaching Quran in your teachings and I have seen the blacks using the klans wording for black supremacy .
It’s “their” not “there” you racists idiots. Maybe you should stop spewing hate and go back to school 🙂
WOW , a lot of Grammar Police lurking around here, guess it is some of Danville’s Finest Teachers. 🙂
lot of grammar police lurking around , Danville ‘s Finest Teachers I guess
Holy sh*t. This wasn’t written by the KKK. This was written by a black guy. One thing about the KKK, they don’t misspell shit and they don’t use slang because they want too be taken seriously “those not them”. This is a bunch of bullshit made too stir up racial tensions. Pathetic.
Well if the Klan doesn’t misspell, I guess we can count you as not a Klansman.
Where are you getting any evidence to support your otherwise very racist allegation that a black man wrote this?
I do not like you Southside and probably never will until we meet face to face and go over our issues with each other. However, great article. I looked up the numbe and this is the info that comes up with it. Contact Us National Office Imperial Wizard “Chris Barker Klanman1866@yahoo.com (336) 432-0386. State Office of Virginia Jason “Imperial Klaliff
I love you, Merle.
The crazy thing is if the black panthers did sum mess like this they would be beating up and thrown in jail.. its ashame because their telling white people that its okay practice their freedom of speech but we as black people are not
I support the right of everyone’s free speech.
These “hooded” and illiterate comedians who lurk in the darkness are a problem, but the individuals I need to be aware of are the ones who support them financially, agree with them secretly, but continue to smile in my face.
I have never been able to find any evidence that those people exist. The regions’ KKK seems to be a bunch of “independent contractors”.
This is so horrible. We live on West Main and my neighbors showed me this. For whatever reason, they “skipped” our home. Nevertheless, as previously mentioned, if they want to be taken seriously they should have spell checked their flyers. Two, as far as I am concerned, the KKK and Al Sharpton as well as Jessie Jackson are all the same; they stir up hate where it is not wanted nor sought. It is a shame that racism in this country will never die because of idiots such as these. I have many black friends (yes I said black, not african american) and I would be terrified if I seen this being displayed in my community. This should be illegal to spew such hate and venom in our community. Isn’t there enough hate in the world without this? Simply shameful for any one particular group of people to be hated so much. Jesus would not be proud of this. The arms and feet of Jesus can not call themselves Christian and judge so harshly. So sad.
Has SCC asked the police chief for a comment about this?
To see that they’ve spelled “their” wrong on the last line, shows me that ignorance must actually be full of bliss.
It just shows how smart they are by not spelling “where” right…. smh
I don’t see the problem….free speech protects this..you dont have to like it at all..you can even protest against it….but you MUST Tolerate it…no huge outrage when the black panthers do this stuff…also i do support the police when it come to being forceful to the types of people who riot and act like hethens ….that does not mean Im a KKK supporter at all…but they fill a space that is needed for a little balance from all the double standards placed on white people
it looks like the KKK ,,,,,want their ass kick
what a bunch of dumb f****