Thursday, January 12, 2006
Diversity Comes To The Klan...
...sort of.
A black former Colorado cop reminises about his undercover investigation of the local KKK:
Tags: race, Ku Klux Klan
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A black former Colorado cop reminises about his undercover investigation of the local KKK:
Amazing! I tell you, if he had heard about it, Clayton Bigsby would be outraged!About 25 years ago, Ron Stallworth was asked to lead the Ku Klux Klan chapter in Colorado Springs.
Problem was, the outgoing Klan leader didn't know that Stallworth is black.
"He asked me to take over the lead because I was a good, loyal Klansman," said Stallworth, who had been in constant phone contact with the Klan leader while leading a yearlong Colorado Springs police investigation into the Klan.
Stallworth later moved to Utah, where he recently retired after nearly 20 years as an investigator for the Utah Department of Public Safety. He says he's amazed that no one ever caught on to the investigation he led starting in 1979. After he was offered Klan leadership, he quietly disappeared.
Tags: race, Ku Klux Klan
