Last week, Ku Klux Klan fliers calling on Trump supporters to stop Black Lives Matter were seen posted in Austin, Texas.
Days after the midterms, Austin residents noticed a flier posted outside of a local business. A tweet from Austin Wood and Metal featured an image of the alleged document.
"The KKK wants you! We’re calling upon all fellow Trump supporters, to show up and protest against the radical left,” the flier read. It called for the end of Black Lives Matter activists' work in the liberal city in capital letters:
“STOP BLACK LIVES MATTERS [sic] HATE GROUP.”
The date on the flier called for a rally over the weekend, but there were no reports of a rally taking place in the city.
Just Pinned to Austin from https://t.co/u2MmOAbAJW: https://t.co/u2MmOAbAJW KKK is coming to Austin? https://t.co/8AaDMDriGt
pic.twitter.com/vBzkc7OjNT— Austin Wood & Metal (@AustinWoodMeta1) November 5, 2018
According to the Philadelphia Tribune, the flier circulated online but it has yet to be tied directly to a KKK chapter in the area. Twitter users were unable to find any real information about the rally.
It happens everyday really. You heard about that kkk meeting that's supposed to happen in Austin?
— Sid (@sid_thakidd32) November 6, 2018
The kkk is posting flyers in Austin whew chile I’m sick of this damn city
— doll (@dollfacecarter2) November 7, 2018
If the fliers are connected to the white supremacist hate group, it would be no surprise to residents. The KKK has ramped up recruitment in the area since the election of President Donald Trump. The notorious organization is just one of 84 other active hate groups in the state of Texas — more than any other state in the country.
“Many of the leaders of neo-Nazi and Patriot organizations started in the Klan and continued to espouse the hooded order’s racist ideology in their new roles," the Southern Poverty Law Center said of the KKK. "This legacy of hate was a testament to the power of the Klan and its enduring influence for over a century.”
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