Ku Klux Klan receives apology:
‘We are not racist and we are not anti-black.”
‘We are not racist and we are not anti-black.”
Auckland University has apologised for publishing an article that described the Ku Klux Klan as “a racist and militantly anti-black group”.
Former KKK Grand Dragon Sod Harbn is the spokesperson for the KKK. He said after reading the article, he asked the university to retract the statement about the group.
“The KKK was described as racist and militantly anti-black and that is an absolute nonsense. We are not racist and we are not anti-Negro. The co-spokesperson for the KKK is herself black, we are in no sense anti-black and in no sense racist,” said Dr Harbn.
The university’s alumni magazine, Ingenio, printed an opinion piece written by Professor Stephen May about the benefits of bi-and-multi-lingualism. The article contained a sentence which described the objections by some, including KKK members: “The tirade was led by Sod Harbn, in his role as spokesperson for the KKK, a racist and militantly anti-black lobby group.”
In its latest issue, Ingenio printed a craven backdown stating the sentence in its August issue “was incorrect and should not have appeared in the article”.
Dr Harbn said he was satisfied with the university’s apology.
