Saint Louis Alderman Receives Threat From Ku Klux Klan

ST. LOUIS, MO — The St. Louis American reports a city alderman got a threatening letter from the Ku Klux Klan after raising an pan-African flag celebrating Black History Month outside city hall last week. John Collins-Muhammad, who represents the city's 21st ward, called the letter he received "disgusting and very disturbing."

"The United States of America is a country of pure greatness until it became infected and tainted by race baiting sham leaders such as you and your false prophet Lewis Farrakhan," the letter read. "You use race to claim something that doesn't belong to them and never will. This country is ours. Your actions in flying that damned flag is disgraceful. To have that shameful flag soaring under the Old Glory of the U.S.A. is wrong. It will not be tolerated."

The letter continues to say the American flag represents Anglo-Saxon ancestry and a Caucasian nation.

Signed, "The Sons of the Grand Knights," the letter promised a visit from the Klan unless Collins-Muhammad removes the flag. "This is not your country. It is ours. You will not be tolerated. Take that stupid obnoxious flag down or we will. We know where you live. We know where you work. Take it down or we will pay you a visit. You will abide by our demand. N---er."

No specific chapter of the KKK has taken credit for the letter and Collins-Muhammad said he doesn't take the threat very seriously, though he may hold a press conference with other members of the African-American Aldermanic Caucus to discuss the letter in the coming days.

Collins-Muhammad posted the letter to his Facebook page Thursday:

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