12 July 2006Kan't buy a KlueA couple of days ago, someone wandered into this site with the search string kevin calvey, KKK. Calvey is a state legislator running for Congress; the KKK needs no introduction. Nothing I'd said connected the two they happened to be on the same archive page, and the archives around here tend to be huge but I decided I'd read down the list of results, and turned up something else entirely: an actual page run by the Bayou Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, based in that traditional bayou town, Shawnee, Oklahoma. (I am disinclined to give them a link, partly on general principle, partly because they insist on running a bunch of annoying Java applets; you can find them easily enough if you're interested, since they have their own domain.) And Rep. Calvey is indeed mentioned thereupon: he had voted against the African-American Centennial Plaza to be built at the Capitol grounds, and the Klan's Webmaster apparently lifted Calvey's press release intact, leaving in all the personal pronouns and stuff:
I voted NO on this item, as I think Oklahoma history should not be balkanized into different ethnic groups.
More amusing was the disclaimer: "We are not what you have been told by your media." And from the Department of Unconscious Irony: the page sports a black background. Posted at 1:43 PM to Soonerland |