http://www.myfoxmemphis.com/dpp/news/tennessee/070909_KKK_Recruiting_with_Sex_Offender_Flyers
KKK Recruiting with Sex
Offender Flyer
Updated: Thursday, 09 Jul 2009, 9:57 PM CDT
Published : Thursday, 09 Jul 2009, 9:57 PM CDT
Jill Monier (http://www.myfoxmemphis.com/dpp/about_us/personalities/Jill_Monier_Bio)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Some Olive Branch residents are outraged about flyers, littering their yards.
The flyers warned of a convicted sex offender, living in the neighborhood, but they were distributed by a group with a racist, violent history toward Jews and blacks. The flier was found scattered about the Allendale Cove neighborhood last week. It was in a plastic bag with a rock inside. The flyer notifies homeowners that a convicted sex offender lives on the next street, but take a closer look and you see the flyer was distributed by the Ku Klux Klan. The KKK says it's a public service but an organization that tracks hate groups says that's simply ridiculous. Buddy Robinson President of the Allendale Cover Homeowners Association says, "I was really shocked because you haven't heard anything from this group in years, at least I haven't and now all of a sudden they're in my community. we don't need any organization coming in and causing trouble with any of the homeowners in this area." Robinson says the flyer's prompted dozens of complaints from residents. He says, "It brought up an area of concern not just because we have a sex offender living in our area but it being from the KKK, like it is. We don't want anybody to think we're apart of that kind of group." Not only do the Allendale Cove residents we spoke with, not want to be associated with the KKK, but they think the flyers serve a purpose other than to notify them of a sex offender. At the bottom is a solicitation for donations. Robinson says, "I believe they're heavy into recruiting because things might be getting slim for them these days with people changing their opinion on things."