The Ku Klux Klan has fallen on such hard times that it's having to ask the state's permission to pick up trash on a roadside in North Georgia.
OK, there's a little more to it than that. The Klan wants to adopt a stretch of highway that it will be responsible for keeping clean, and in return it'd get one of those little road signs that say the KKK is keeping this road tidy.
One of the Klan members says that, if they prevail in court, his group will definitely be out there picking up trash -- but in jeans and T-shirts, not in robes.
So there's no confusion, perhaps they could add a smaller sign on their adopted road that says, "Honk if you hate!"
Read the full Torpy at Large column at MyAJC.com.
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