KKK harasses people in Pampa

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PAMPA - Fliers found in Pampa yards Friday pointed to a Web site recruiting members for a white-supremacist group.


"If you are white, with non-Jewish ancestry and are 100 percent American please continue," reads a Web site touted on fliers some Pampa residents found in their yards Friday morning.


The Amarillo chapter of the United White Knights distributed the literature to recruit members.
"We're what you'd call a traditional Klan organization," said Clint Evans, a leader of the national group. "That means we don't accept skinheads and Nazis. We're trying to get back to the way it was in 1915, 1920 - a charitable fraternal order."


The Klansmen people see on television are not what the United White Knights see themselves as.


"They're the ones that live on compounds and have Nazi members," Evans said. "They really distort what we really are. We look at them as not being part of the Klan."


The Web site also tries to polish the group's image.
"We do not spread hate towards any race. It is not hate to love your white race," it says. "Join us in fighting for your white rights."


Ken Fields received two of the fliers at his Pampa home.


"I was rather surprised when I went out to get my paper," he said. "It was a cylinder (of paper) wrapped in a plastic bag with several stones in it to give it weight. My personal impression is, I could never be interested in an organization where you hide your face. That's for cowards."