KKK Leader Claims ‘Discrimination’ After Neighborhood Watch Group Kicks Him Out
A Philadelphia man was recently told his services were no longer needed by his local neighborhood watch group after they discovered he had been a member of the Ku Klux Klan for more than 30 years. The Tacony Town Watch reportedly dismissed Bill Walters, who had been hiding the fact that he is the “Grand Dragon” of the East Coast Knights of the True Invisible Empire. Now, Walters is complaining that he’s the victim of discrimination.
“We are a conservative Christian group,” Walters said of the KKK. “My rights were infringed upon. I can’t believe in what I want to? This has infringed on my First Amendment rights. It’s reverse discrimination.” He has reached out the ACLU for support in a legal case against the neighborhood watch group, but they turned him down.
The town watch president Joe Nicoletti explained the decision to kick Walters out of the group, saying, “We received information that Bill had been distributing flyers in the neighborhood trying to recruit new members. And part of our bylaws state that members must promote harmony in the neighborhood, and we all know that harmony is not what the KKK is about.”
Walters insists that the KKK is not a hate group, saying, “I know we have a bad name, but it’s not that way no more.” For instance, he asked, “When was the last time a black or Hispanic got hung on a tree?”
“We’re basically the same thing as the town watch,” Walters added. “We want to try to get rid of the trash coming in.”
[Photo via phillymag.com]
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