[Vision2020] KKK mailing renews resolve of Idaho legislator

Tue Apr 10 13:08:01 PDT 2012

Shirley,

Could the list be the same for Latah County that was used in
Postcardgate?   If so, there is not much doubt where that list came from.

w.

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:

> Could the mailing list consist of non-Tea Party politicians . . . as a
> form of intimidation, implying that the addressee had better "fall in line"
> . . . or else.
>
>
> Seeya round town, Moscow.
>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
> "If not us, who?
> If not now, when?"
>
> - Unknown
>
>
>
> On Apr 10, 2012, at 12:49, "Shirley Ringo" <ringoshirl at moscow.com> wrote:
>
> Visionaries:
>
> I also received the invitation to join the KKK.  I think Barrett Schroeder
> told me he received one also.  I wonder what the mailing list was?  Names
> of legislative candidates?
>
> Shirley
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* keely emerinemix <kjajmix1 at msn.com>
> *To:* Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> ; <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> vision2020 at moscow.com
> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 10, 2012 11:25 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [Vision2020] KKK mailing renews resolve of Idaho legislator
>
> Maybe the D-N would run the story if Trail lived next to an NSA student
> who, say, raised daisies.  Or went home over Easter to visit his parents.
>
> But then Trail could play the part of supporting cast, instead of being
> the focus of an article that would likely jolt some of Moscow out of its
> complacency.  There was a day when journalists seized on news that would
> make their readership uncomfortable.  That doesn't seem to be part of the
> modus operandi of the Daily News, which makes it less a source of news than
> of reassurance.
>
> Keely
> www.keely-prevailingwinds.com
>
>
>  ------------------------------
> From: <thansen at moscow.com>thansen at moscow.com
> Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 09:27:10 -0700
> To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: [Vision2020] KKK mailing renews resolve of Idaho legislator
>
>   Is anybody aware of any reason why this topic has yet to grace the
> pages of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News, especially considering that Rep.
> Tom Trail received the same intro and membership application?
>
>  <http://www.NotOnThePalouse.com/Klan_Flyer_033112.htm><http://www.NotOnThePalouse.com/Klan_Flyer_033112.htm><http://www.NotOnThePalouse.com/Klan_Flyer_033112.htm>
> http://www.NotOnThePalouse.com/Klan_Flyer_033112.htm
>
> Courtesy of the Idaho Statesman at:
>
>
> <http://www.idahostatesman.com/2012/04/10/2069499/kkk-mailing-renews-resolve-of.html><http://www.idahostatesman.com/2012/04/10/2069499/kkk-mailing-renews-resolve-of.html><http://www.idahostatesman.com/2012/04/10/2069499/kkk-mailing-renews-resolve-of.html><http://www.idahostatesman.com/2012/04/10/2069499/kkk-mailing-renews-resolve-of.html>
> http://www.idahostatesman.com/2012/04/10/2069499/kkk-mailing-renews-resolve-of.html
>
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>
> KKK mailing renews resolve of Idaho legislator
> When Rep. Cherie Buckner-Webb travels around the country as a management
> consultant, people are often surprised to learn that there is a black
> female legislator from Idaho.
>
> “When they think of Idaho, it is not Sun Valley, or our rivers or our
> mountains. It is the Aryan Nations. That is still what they think about
> Idaho,” said Buckner-Webb. “I hear it all the time.”
>
> She represents District 19 in Boise’s North End and grew up on 19th Street
> in Boise. She knows about prejudice.
>
> “Someone burned a cross on our lawn” when she was about 7, Buckner-Webb
> recalls.
>
> She was reminded of the burning cross and other racist incidents last week
> when she received in the mail an application to join the Ku Klux Klan.
>
> In addition to submitting $35 in annual dues and a photo, the applicant is
> asked to complete a statement proclaiming: “I am a White Christian man or
> woman.”
>
> Also included was a newsletter, “An Introduction to the Knights and
> National Director Thomas Robb.”
>
> Robb is the national director of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. He
> recently began calling his organization The Knights Party, according to the
> Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks racist and hate groups. (In 2011,
> the center identified 18 active groups in Idaho.)
>
> The envelope, hand-addressed to Buckner-Webb, had a return address of
> Harrison, Ark. — Robb’s home base — but was postmarked in Great Falls, Mont.
>
> The mailing did not contain a personal note, but Buckner-Webb — the lone
> African-American in the Idaho Legislature — thinks that she was
> specifically targeted.
>
> She said she was more surprised than disturbed by the mailing.
>
> “Initially, I wondered what was someone’s thought process in sending that
> to me. My first inclination was someone wants me to know the Klan is still
> around,” she said.
>
> She posted a copy of the KKK application and newsletter on her Facebook
> page Saturday to express her surprise and start a dialogue.
>
> “It conjured up a lot of things for me that weren’t very comfortable — not
> fear, but sometimes we get to thinking things are settled,” she said.
>
> Buckner-Webb said legislative battles this past session over gay rights,
> contraception and restrictions on abortion showed her otherwise.
>
> “I am really concerned about the climate of intolerance in a lot of
> different areas. I see a lot of intolerance toward gays, toward women,” she
> said.
>
> The mailing also reminded her of the story of Paul Bellesen, a black man
> from Nampa.
>
> In 1965, he sent in an application and $15 in dues and joined the KKK. For
> one day, he was the official Klan head for the state of Idaho.
>
> “That made national news,” Buckner-Webb said.
>
> At the time, Bellesen told The Associated Press that he joined the Klan
> “to show it for what it is.” He said he opposed any group that preaches
> violence, but harbored no ill will toward individual members.
>
> More than 40 years later, Buckner-Webb expressed a similar sentiment.
>
> “People can choose their own path, but I don’t support fear or
> intimidation,” she said. “Do I say they have the right to develop a dogma
> that is theirs? Yes. Do I honor their tactics? No.”
>
> Buckner-Webb said she does not consider herself a victim and refuses to
> respond with vitriol.
>
> The mailing served as a reminder, she said.
>
> “I would be a fool not to take note and govern myself accordingly,” she
> said. “It was a sign for me to remain vigilant, to remain careful and to
> remain thoughtful.”
>
> ---------------
>
> Cherie Buckner-Webb, right, talking with fellow Democratic Rep. Elaine
> Smith during a committee meeting, said of the KKK: “I can’t hate them.
> Harboring hatred against anyone is not OK for me.”
>
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>
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>
> Seeya round town, Moscow.
>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
> "If not us, who?
> If not now, when?"
>
> - Unknown
>
>
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