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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Visionaries:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>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?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Shirley</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=kjajmix1@msn.com href="mailto:kjajmix1@msn.com">keely emerinemix</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=thansen@moscow.com
href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">Tom Hansen</A> ; <A
title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, April 10, 2012 11:25
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] KKK mailing
renews resolve of Idaho legislator</DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR><FONT color=#8064a2><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"
size=3><FONT
face=Verdana>Keely<BR>www.keely-prevailingwinds.com<BR></FONT></FONT></FONT><BR><BR>
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From: thansen@moscow.com<BR>Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 09:27:10 -0700<BR>To:
vision2020@moscow.com<BR>Subject: [Vision2020] KKK mailing renews resolve of
Idaho legislator<BR><BR>
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<DIV>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?</DIV>
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<DIV><A href="http://www.NotOnThePalouse.com/Klan_Flyer_033112.htm"
target=_blank></A><A
href="http://www.NotOnThePalouse.com/Klan_Flyer_033112.htm"
target=_blank></A><A
href="http://www.NotOnThePalouse.com/Klan_Flyer_033112.htm"
target=_blank>http://www.NotOnThePalouse.com/Klan_Flyer_033112.htm</A></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN>Courtesy of the Idaho Statesman
at:</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><A
href="http://www.idahostatesman.com/2012/04/10/2069499/kkk-mailing-renews-resolve-of.html"
target=_blank></A><A
href="http://www.idahostatesman.com/2012/04/10/2069499/kkk-mailing-renews-resolve-of.html"
target=_blank></A><A
href="http://www.idahostatesman.com/2012/04/10/2069499/kkk-mailing-renews-resolve-of.html"
target=_blank></A><A
href="http://www.idahostatesman.com/2012/04/10/2069499/kkk-mailing-renews-resolve-of.html"
target=_blank>http://www.idahostatesman.com/2012/04/10/2069499/kkk-mailing-renews-resolve-of.html</A></DIV>
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mailing renews resolve of Idaho legislator</H1></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN>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.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>“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.”</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>She
represents District 19 in Boise’s North End and grew up on 19th Street in
Boise. She knows about prejudice.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>“Someone
burned a cross on our lawn” when she was about 7, Buckner-Webb
recalls.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>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.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>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.”</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>Also included was a newsletter, “An
Introduction to the Knights and National Director Thomas
Robb.”</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>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.)</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>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.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>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.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>She said she was more surprised
than disturbed by the mailing.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>“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.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>She posted a copy of the KKK
application and newsletter on her Facebook page Saturday to express her
surprise and start a dialogue.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>“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.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>Buckner-Webb said legislative battles
this past session over gay rights, contraception and restrictions on abortion
showed her otherwise.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>“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.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>The mailing also reminded her of the
story of Paul Bellesen, a black man from
Nampa.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>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.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>“That made national
news,” Buckner-Webb said.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>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.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>More
than 40 years later, Buckner-Webb expressed a similar
sentiment.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>“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.”</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>Buckner-Webb said she does not consider
herself a victim and refuses to respond with
vitriol.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>The mailing served as a reminder,
she said.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>“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.”</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV>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.”</DIV>
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width=620><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>-----------------------------------------</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>Seeya
round town, Moscow.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>Tom
Hansen</SPAN><BR><SPAN>Moscow, Idaho</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>"If not
us, who?</SPAN><BR><SPAN>If not now, when?"</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>-
Unknown</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR></DIV></DIV>
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