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Created: December 19, 2001
Latest update: December 19, 2001
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And the Ku Klux Klan

Journal Entry by Teresa Mason

On Tuesday, December 18, Teresa Mason wrote:

Subject: Fwd: Poetic Justice

Many of you are aware that a few weeks ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the state of Missouri cannot discriminate against the Ku Klux Klan when it comes to groups that want to participate in the adopt-a-highway program.

While seeing the name of the Klan on a highway sign is aesthetically disgusting, most realized that this decision was a victory for free speech and equal protection under the law.

Well, the Department of Transportation in Missouri has gotten its legal revenge, and boy is it sweet. True, they can't remove the KKK's adopt-a-highway sign, but no one would dispute the state's right to name the highway itself.

The KKK is now regularly cleaning up a stretch of the newly christened "Rosa Parks Freeway"