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KKK leader claims hate group has grown at record pace since Trump became President
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of The Independent (One of the UK's leading newspapers)
Posted: September 4th, 2017
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics...
The Ku Klux Klan has grown faster since Donald Trumps inauguration than any time in recent memory, a Klan leader has claimed. Ive been doing this for over 20 years and I havent seen the Klan grow at the pace its growing now, Chris Barker, an Imperial Wizard of the KKK, told The Independent. Mr Barker said that after the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville he received 50 applications to join his group in one day. The next day, he received 80. Mr Barker leads the Loyal White Knights of the KKK, which has less than 200 members. As one of the most active Klan groups in the US, the group takes part in activism such as burning crosses, advocating for the murder of immigrants, and distributing leaflets claiming, among other things, transgender is an abomination. Mr Barker contacted The Independent about a previous article, from which he had gained notoriety for calling a Univision journalist a n***** and threatening to burn her out of the country. Approximately 30 KKK groups were active over the course of 2016 a decrease from the year before. That number has since risen to 40. This summer also marked a departure from the trend of small, scattered, and sparsely attended KKK demonstrations. Several different Klan groups turned out for the rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where white supremacists from around the country protested the removal of a Confederate statue. The rally, which Mr Barkers group also participated in, was said to be the largest white supremacist gathering in the US in decades.
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