THIS ONE IS HARD TO BELIEVE

(h/t The Larry and Larry Show)

We've come a long way but not far enough if this sort of hateful lunacy is still present:

KKK tries to recruit for 'neighborhood watch' program in Springfield
by Mike Landis, KY3 News mlandis@ky3.com

8:46 p.m. CDT, July 24, 2013
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Some neighbors on the city’s west-central side were surprised by an “invitation” that landed in their yards.

Steven Burchett has come to love living here on Olive St.

“Never had any problems- never any trouble, Burchett said.”

On Sunday morning he went to get his paper, he made a surprising discovery.

“I found the note in the front yard. And it was from the Klan,” he stated. “I was furious. I was furious.”

The notice bore the name of the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.

Complete with the image of a hooded figure, the flyer attempts to recruit people for a so-called neighborhood watch program. It asks, “Are there troubles in your neighborhood? Contact the…Klan today.”

KY3 News then called the ‘Klanline’ phone number provided on the paper. We talked a representative, Frank Ancona, who told us his group has a nationwide flyer campaign. Their goal is to get people to form or join Klan-sponsored neighborhood watch groups to help police fight crime.

Ancona said he wasn’t sure if the flier were distributed as part of an organized effort by his group, or if they were distributed by individual citizen “supports” of the KKK.

He also said the programs are not about race, claiming that if members saw a white guy 'up to no good' they would alert police just as well.