KKK wants to adopt a highway. Seriously
The white power group is trying to klean up its image
The Ku Klux Klan has rallied around a new cause. The hate group wants to adopt a stretch of Georgia Highway, Vice reports.
The Georgia Court of Appeals is currently deciding whether or not the KKK should be allowed to participate in the program, after the state’s Department of Transportation denied the group’s 2012 application,citing concerns over “potential social unrest, driver distraction, or interference with the flow of traffic.’’
This isn’t the first highway the Klan has tried to adopt, according to the report. In the past, the group of wizards and cyclopses and dragons (oh my) have been allowed to adopt highways in both Arkansas and Missouri, as the states’ initial denial of their application was overturned in their respective higher courts on free speech grounds.
Why would the KKK want to spend money keeping part of a highway clean? Public relations, according to Vice. Adopting a highway is one of the few remaining ways for the Klan to advertise, as nobody will sell them ad space or allow them to sponsor their events, shockingly.
Click here to read the full Vice report.
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