These “friendly” people are performing a salute for the International Keystone Knights of Georgia. A variant of the KKK, this group applied to participate in Georgia’s Adopt-a-Highway Program. Citing the Klan’s long history of racial intimidation and violence, the highway department denied the group’s petition. In 2016, the Georgia state supreme court held that the agency violated the KKK’s speech rights by impermissibly singling out the Klan (my question: what other group has applied for the program with this unique history of violence?). This follows similar rulings in Arkansas and Missouri.
The Missouri case is interesting. After the state was ordered by the court to post the group’s sponsorship sign, the state renamed this stretch of I-55 the Rosa Parks Highway. The Klan stopped participating … but someone expressed their feelings on this Rosa Parks sign. Do you suppose that vandalizing this sign is protected speech under the First Amendment?
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