The KKK's 'insulting and insane' request... to pick up litter

A Ku Klux Klan group in Georgia wants to join the state's Adopt-a-Highway program — and it just might succeed

A Ku Klux Klansman stands by a North Carolina highway in 1989, after the state refused to allow the Klan to adopt a stretch of highway: Today, a Georgia KKK group is trying adopt a mile of it
(Image credit: Jim McDonald/CORBIS)

Georgia's Department of Transportation "manages 18,000 miles of primary and secondary highways and tollways, spends millions every year cleaning up roadside trash, and needs all the help it can get," says Eric Lach at Talking Points Memo. But even in this era of budget crunches, the Peach State's transportation department isn't sure it wants help from one particular group that has applied to keep a mile of northern Georgia's Route 515 clean through the state's "Adopt-a-Highway" program: The Ku Klux Klan. Here's what you should know:

What does the KKK want?

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