WOW: How One Black Man Trolled A Racist With Love And Ended Up Defeating The KKK

Soooo can someone tell me how exactly you go from being a Ku Klux Klan member to leaving it all behind? Johnny Lee Clary, a former member “imperial wizard” of the KKK, tells this pretty a-m-a-z-i-n-g story that involves a church and a, er, chicken?

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