From NY to Texas, KKK recruits with candies and fliers

[marmar]

(CNN) -- Carlos Enrique Londoño laughs at the Ku Klux Klan recruitment flier recently left on the driveway of his suburban New York home. It's unlikely the group would accept him.

"I'm Colombian and dark-skinned," said Londoño, a painter and construction worker who has lived in Hampton Bays on Long Island for 30 years.

The flier was tucked into a plastic bag along with a membership application, the address for the KKK national office in North Carolina, a list of beliefs and three Jolly Rancher candies.

The packages appear to be part of a wider recruitment effort by the Klan across the country, Ryan Lenz, senior writer for the Southern Poverty Law Center, told CNN on Saturday. ..............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/31/us/new-york-kkk-recruitment/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

[FreakinDJ]

1. and three Jolly Rancher candies

[lonestarnot]

2. You didn't eat that crap did you?

[OffWithTheirHeads]

3. Republiklan vote drive?

[babylonsister]

4. Noooo! What the hell? I'm out of words. nt

[TreasonousBastard]

5. I'm not that far from Hampton Bays, and that...

attempt at recruitment was met with pretty much universal scorn around here.

Might we have a few neanderthals receptive to the message? Sure, what neighborhood doesn't have a few here and there, but I'm pretty sure there will be no Klan rallies in these parts.

[newfie11]

6. The KKK did that years ago outside of my kids school

In Siler City NC. Just off school property they were passing out fliers to kids to give to parents.
No candy then, I guess they have updated.