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Several times a year, the KKK litters people's driveways with its drivel, occasionally wrapped in pages of our newspaper to give it enough weight so that it doesn't blow away. (The racist organization has used the Rhino, too.)

The Klan is at it again. We have gotten complaints from people who think we actually delivered the bilge on Christmas morning. (Christmas is apparently a popular time.)

We didn't and wouldn't. On Christmas or any other day. My advice is to treat the Klan flier as you would any other piece of trash that blew up on your property.

My newspaper column

Over the Christmas holidays, some people in Guilford County awoke to find a rolled paper wrapped in blue plastic on their driveways.

I would say it looked suspiciously somewhat like a newspaper, but I don't want to equate what was lying there with what we produce every day.

Inside the plastic bag was an advertising circular of the type you might find in the News & Record and a one-page hate message that confused and upset some newspaper readers. I don't blame them.

The flyer came from the Knights Party of the Ku Klux Klan, which delivers its toxic message in this way a few times a year, often around holidays. Last February, the group delivered one "in recognition of Black History Month." Nice.