The Name Game

I'm sure that many of you have heard the story of the KKK and the Adopt-a-Highway program in Missouri! But even being a Missouri resident myself I had not heard of it until I was looking through some things on Snopes a few months back and read the story! I just went to Snopes a few minutes ago to check out an email I got this morning and remembered reading this and decided to share it with all of you! Aren't you lucky!?

So it all started in 1994 when a KKK memeber applied to adopt a stretch of I-55 in Missouri and MODOT denied that application claiming that under the Federal Civil Rights Act they could refuse the use of federal money to "Further or Subsidize Racial Discrimination." GO Missouri DOT is what I say!!! But some idiotic U.S. District court judge ruled that denying the KKK the opportunity to participate in the Adopt-a-Highway program was unconstitutional, and when that ruling was confirmed by the 8th District court of appeals in March 2000, the state had to put up signs announcing the KKK's participation in the program on a portion of I-55! HOWEVER...the Missouri Legislature then voted to name this particular stretch of the Highway "Rosa Parks Highway" in honor of the Civil Rights Hero who refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in 1955 which led to her arrest and the boycott of the Montgomery bus system!

Needless to say, the Klan never did clean up thier portion of the Highway! Hmmm...I wonder why!!! After a couple of ultimatums and the KKK not holding up thier end of the bargain, they were officially dropped from the program!!! I think Missouri did an AWESOME thing here!

Thomas Robb, the national director of the KKK in Harrison, Arkansas claimed that the KKK had already planned on abandoning the program because the "person who filed for the original application is no longer taking part in the program"...YEAH RIGHT!!! I don't believe that.....I would bet that, Missouri got the best of them!!! ROFLMAO!!!!!;););););)

Based on another application filed by yet another KKK member in March 1999, they are looking at adopting another stretch of Highway in Missouri. Didn't they learn the first time around not to mess with Missourians?! Guess not! As of the last update on this story, the stretch of Highway 21 that the KKK was applying for was unnamed...I wonder how long it will stay that way! LoL!

If you want to view this story yourself you can here!