Georgia lawmaker defends KKK: “not so much a racist thing”
In the same week that Georgia’s Department of Education fired a top schools official for posting racist, homophobic and anti-Muslim, a Georgia Republican lawmaker defends the Ku Klux Klan.
State Rep. Tommy Benton defended the KKK in an interview with the AJC. The Klan “was not so much a racist thing but a vigilante thing to keep law and order. It made a lot of people straighten up.”