Ultra progressive San Francisco doesn’t exactly seem like prime recruiting ground for white supremacist groups, but far be it from us to question the wisdom of the KKK’s marketing department.
On Thursday, officials from the Ku Klux Klan confirmed that they’ve been actively courting new members in the City by the Bay, which explains a series of disturbing KKK flyers turning up in the Haight neighborhood.
“Our organization is actively recruiting in all of California and all of the United States,” said Will Quigg, grand dragon of the group’s West Coast region. “We’re getting a lot more calls, especially in the last few months with what Obama’s doing, what Hillary’s doing and especially Black Lives Matter calling for war and saying they’re trying to kill all whites.”
The Haight flyers appeared to be exploiting the heightened tensions between African American communities and police.
“Black Lives Matter Black Panthers are telling followers to kill white people and police officers in the name of justice for the killing of Negro’s by policemen in the line of duty,” the flyers claim.
Extremist organizations like the KKK seem to have stepped up their activities in the Golden State over the past year. Last June, similar propaganda flyers were distributed around the Los Angeles suburb of Whittier. A number of white supremacist rallies in Anaheim and Sacramento have also stoked fears over a hate group resurgence in the state.
Read more about the KKK’s activities in San Francisco here.
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