The Georgia Department of Transportation and the Georgia Attorney General’s Office met Monday about a request from the Ku Klux Klan to participate in the state’s Adopt a Highway Program in Union County. In a statement, officials with the Georgia Department of Transportation say the department is still in the process of reviewing the application.
Last month, The International Keystone Knights applied to clean up a portion of state route 515 near the North Carolina border. On its website, the department of transportation says the program is open to any civic-minded organization, business, individual, family, city, county, state, or federal agency. But State Representative Tyrone Brooks with the Georgia Association of Black Elected Officials says the state should deny the request because he doesn’t believe the group qualifies.
“They have burned, they have raped, they have robbed, they have lynched…simply because they want to keep the races separate, so for the state to even consider an application from the Ku Klux Klan is absolutely unbelievable.”
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