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16 Jul, 2015

Klu Klux Klan distributes fliers in black South Carolina neighbourhood – The Independent

When the Klu Klux Klan distributed fliers in a predominantly black neighbourhood, residents reponded in a way that the KK might not have been expected – by producing their own posters showing a white and black hand clasped in a handshake. What made the response all the more telling was that the incident took place in the town of North Charleston, just a few miles from where nine members of a black church were shot dead last month. “You never know what can happen, especially with it coming into our neighborhood,” resident Cherri Delesline told the Post and Courier newspaper. “What affects one, affects all.”

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