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We’ve reported that loose, decentralized arms of the Ku Klux Klan have been eyeing Ohio for future membership recruitment. With an eight-percent pro-Trump margin in the 2016 presidential election, it’s hard not to see the state as fertile ground for fringe ideologues. And even with the reality of Trump policies setting in — the sort of stuff that works against rational self-interest and, like, kindness —  plenty of Ohioans cling to a passion for demagoguery.

“We have people all over Ohio already. There is a large membership of Loyal White Knights there,” said Amanda Lee, a North Carolina woman who acts as the national imperial commander for a Klan faction known as the Loyal White Knights. “When things start going wrong, it’s time for us to start retaliating. It’s time for us to get active.”

And so we arrive at an ongoing investigation in Perkins Township, just south of Sandusky, where detectives are looking into KKK leaflets that were distributed around town, according to the Register. The leaflets bore the name of, yep, the Loyal White Knights.

The leaflet mentions drug and alcohol abuse resources, and it’s unclear what other goals were in place with this distribution.

“This is disgusting,” Perkins trustee Tim Coleman told the newspaper. “Someone thinks they can do this? And in Perkins Township? That makes me sick to my stomach.”

This article appears in Mar 29 – Apr 4, 2017.

Eric Sandy is an award-winning Cleveland-based journalist. For a while, he was the managing editor of Scene. He now contributes jam band features every now and then.

4 replies on “Ku Klux Klan Leaflets Distributed in Small Northern Ohio Town”

  1. Erie County, North Missitucky…or would that be Eerie County?

    Chuckles the Clown

  3. so are you saying white people cant have a national organisation who defend their rights as group and to actively recruit members. first lets tell the truth anyone who says they are offended are race baiting fear mongers. listen I’m not worried about the KKK. Boo! You know ironic to this situation i had a conversion with a local Cleveland African American just after the election…she was going frantic with with Anti Trump BS saying he was a member and supports the KKK. I actually started laughing. For the last 50 years or so African Americans have been in subliminal fear of those three letters. And now they are afraid five…TRUMP.

    This is just utter BS leftist prop thought and divides people…but hey this is AMERICA.

  4. The Klan and its history of bloody violence against black Americans is “BS leftist thought”?

    You can only say that, yepyep, if the racist injuries America inflicts on black citizens, today or in the past, are meaningless to you.

    The Klan is evil, plain and simple, but there is a first amendment right to free speech. It doesn’t appear this brochure was distributed in a way that broke any laws, but the law enforcement community needs to investigate and determine whether there is a new, heightened threat to black people in Perkins Township.

    Any citizen has a right to be protected from a threat, and that’s always been the basic message of the KKK.

    “We hurt the people we hate.”

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