By Joseph Hosey
Two Ku Klux Klan groups have recently recruited in New Lenox, Illinois. The leader of one and a high-ranking member of another have questioned the legitimacy of each other's organizations.
Who's telling the truth? Does it even matter?
"This guy’s group, the Traditionalist American Knights, ain’t even been around three years," Robert Jones, the Imperial Klaliff of the Loyal White Knights, said of a rival KKK organization that distributed literature in New Lenox last weekend.
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Jones' group left KKK fliers in New Lenox driveways five months ago. On Wednesday, he ripped the other Klan outfit and questioned the ancestry of its leader, Imperial Wizard Frank Ancona.
Jones said "Frank Ancona is also Jewish and his wife is Jewish and he’s being exposed all through the Klan world as a fake and he ain’t even white and you can actually look his family tree up which we’ve got his family tree which we can give y'all too and you can post it."
Ancona denied being Jewish.
"If I was a Jew, I'd admit it," he said, calling Jones and his group "drunks and druggies." He said some in that outfit had been kicked out of his organization for substance abuse and other criminal activity.
Ancona claimed the Loyal White Knights have criticized him for not subscribing to hate-based philosophies.
"According to them, to be a Klansman you have to hate everybody," he said, adding, "they'll march with Nazis."
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