Posted on 09/04/2013 1:52:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A secret meeting between a representative of the Wyoming chapter of the NAACP and a Ku Klux Klan organizer ended with the Klan organizer paying $50 to join the civil rights organization, participants said.
Saturday's meeting between Jimmy Simmons, president of the Casper NAACP, and John Abarr, a KKK organizer from Great Falls, Mont., took place at a hotel in Casper, Wyo., under tight security, the Casper Star-Tribune reported. (CBS affiliate KGWN reports on the meeting in the video above).
The Southern Poverty Law Center and the United Klans of America said Tuesday that the meeting was a first.
Abarr told The Associated Press on Tuesday he filled out an NAACP membership form so he could get the group's newsletters and some insight into its views. He said he paid a $30 fee to join, plus a $20 donation.
Simmons said he asked for the meeting after receiving reports that KKK literature was being distributed in Gillette, about 130 miles north of Casper, and to discuss race relations, including what he said were reported beatings of African-American men. He did not provide details.
Abarr said he knew nothing about hate crimes or the literature, which was distributed in a residential neighborhood of Gillette in October.
Gillette police Lt. Chuck Deaton said there have been 10 hate or bias crimes reported in the past five years that involved name-calling but no assaults on African-Americans. Deaton said police also were unable to speak with a young man distributing the literature, and he was chased away by neighbors.
"In the 21 years that I've been here, that's the first I heard of the Klan in Gillette," Deaton said.
Officials with the NAACP in Washington, D.C., requested questions about the meeting in writing but did not immediately respond.
United Klans of America imperial wizard
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Both groups are similar. Both are racist. They should just merge to save on overhead costs. Maybe they could offer group health insurance to their members?
However, I think most of these KKK people today are not doing it out of some kind of worldview, but as either a rebellions against society or a way to express their maladjusted antisocial tendencies.
yes, exactly
The merged group could be called United Racists of America, with the motto United We Hate.
They would probably like the idea.
KKK guy probably figured that NAACP is currently causing much more pain and destruction to blacks than the KKK possibly ever could in this day and age, so decided to use his resources more effectively.
Then again, it already has a name: The Democrat Party.
Public information from Zabasearch:
John Abarr
608 4th Ave N
Great Falls, MT 59401
(406) 952-1548
Maybe someone can find out when this guy registered Republican because he sure smells like a Rat who’s running GOP just to make us look bad.
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