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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts) Tue Apr 10, 2012, 06:18 PM Apr 2012

Idaho’s only black lawmaker gets KKK membership invite [View all]

Source: Raw Story

Idaho’s only African-American lawmaker, who had a cross burned on her lawn at the age of seven, is speaking out after she said she received a hand-written invitation to join the the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.

On Saturday, Democratic state Rep. Cherie Buckner-Webb used her Facebook page to share photos of the KKK “application,” which asked for $35 and a proclamation that she was “a White Christian man or woman.”

“Check out communiqué from the KKK received this week in the mail,” she wrote. “Newsletter, Application…Really?”

“(It) was addressed by hand,” the lawmaker noted. “Something a little unsettling.”

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/10/idahos-only-black-lawmaker-gets-kkk-membership-invite/

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Idaho’s only black lawmaker gets KKK membership invite [View all] Playinghardball Apr 2012 OP

If America was a decent place... FiveGoodMen Apr 2012 #1

If this was a decent place... eggplant Apr 2012 #2

This message was self-deleted by its author FiveGoodMen Apr 2012 #5

EVERYONE will not be safe as long as White Supremacists continue to operate. FiveGoodMen Apr 2012 #6

The KKK is a terrorist organization. Odin2005 Apr 2012 #10

All the legislators probably got one KamaAina Apr 2012 #3

Would have been funny if they had sent her an invitiation to a dinner if she donated and cstanleytech Apr 2012 #4

huh marshall gaines Apr 2012 #7

I doubt that. They might have someone else though. cstanleytech Apr 2012 #19

! marshall gaines Apr 2012 #25

Dont forget their SUVs and or their golf carts that they love to ride around in. cstanleytech Apr 2012 #26

golf carts marshall gaines Apr 2012 #27

From the original story in the Idaho Statesman: IDemo Apr 2012 #15

In 1965, he sent in an application and $15 in dues and joined the KKK. AlbertCat Apr 2012 #16

Clayton Bigsby! anti-alec Apr 2012 #8

I thought the same thing! This is HILARIOUS!!! Lucky Luciano Apr 2012 #20

I was going to post the same thing. Great and thanks. Love Chappele Hoyt Apr 2012 #23

Did the letter say "Dear Clayton Bigsby?" (Chappel Show) muntrv Apr 2012 #9

What choice did the Idaho KKK have rocktivity Apr 2012 #11

The mailing wasn't sent from Idaho IDemo Apr 2012 #14

It's not just in the South the antichristie Apr 2012 #12

I believe all state houses have been infiltrated d06204 Apr 2012 #13

I always knew that the KKK wasn't racist! Jamaal510 Apr 2012 #17

I got into it once with KKK member who billed himself on his web site as a "civil rights activist." Hoyt Apr 2012 #24

are they Trying to give themselves some Legitimacy? I don't even know where to begin with that Justice wanted Apr 2012 #18

There are black people in Idaho? SpartanDem Apr 2012 #21

. Hassin Bin Sober Apr 2012 #22

Wait, I'm confused guitar man Apr 2012 #28