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BBC news 2014-07-06

The Ku Klux Klan is alive and well, they … today.

They may still be around, but KKK rallies are not what they used to be. But it's not to say that they are not dangerous, and then the same hate.

We hate the Jews; and if you support them or … then we hate you, too.

And of late White Supremacists have shown they can still terrorize. What happened to Mindy Corprin's family is proof of that. She turned up at a horrifying scene outside the local Jewish center.

And I said that's my father who's lying there dead, and that is my son. What happened? And when I looked at doors now of this community center and there were bullet holes. And it hit me that they had been tried.

Both Mindy's father William and her 14-year-old son Reed were killed that day. They weren't Jewish, but were attending a talent show at the center. There was no doubt that the gunman was motivated by hate.

Police say a man armed with at least one shotgun was shooting …

… west of the sight, P. Miller screamed out his slogans. He'd never hidden his abuse before. At one point, he'd been a so-called Grand Dragon in the Ku Klux Klan. One god, one race, one … power.

The police say until the shooting, he'd not done anything to warrant arrest and had a right to express himself. There are thought to be over 615 different White Supremacist organizations in the US. To some extent civil liberties groups protect their right to exist.

If you travel into the town of Harrison in Arkansas, this is the huge sign that you see by the roadside put up by White Supremacists. But the sheriff here says he can't do anything about it because of the rights of the freedom of speech and expression.

In the town, I met one of the men really helping shaped Supremacist thinking in the US. He told me those of us who weren't white were little more than animals. And I asked him about the recent anti-Semitic attack in nearby Kansas.

Even though I teach that ultimately the people that we call Jews today here the terrorist would be taken out of the angels' job, not, not our jobs that I fear I'm here to be adversaries of our race protesters to prove us.

By the views you've just talked about, exactly what had you talked about?

Well, that's because it's, it's true and some people realize it.

In America inciting racial hatred is not a crime. In fact the KKK is offered protection by the law. But however small the numbers these days, angry hatred turning to violence, is a problem this country is still having to deal with.

Alimma Bull, BBC News, in northern Arkansas.