Billboard honoring KKK founder on display near Selma bridge on anniversary of historic march BY Rich Schapiro Friday, March 6, 2015 NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
THEY SHOULD BE TURNED SO Obama SEES THE KKK COMING INTO TOWNWelKKKome to Selma!
Within sight of the bridge where President Obama will commemorate the 1965 Bloody Sunday march is a billboard set up by a group dedicated to honoring Ku Klux Klan founder Nathan Bedford Forrest.
The sign, set up in recent days, invites visitors to see "Selma's War Between The States Historic Sites." But it also features a picture of the Confederate flag and an image of Forrest, who was also a Confederate general.
Beside Forrest's picture is a quote adopted by his men: "Keep the skeer on 'em."
In a bizarre twist, the other side of the billboard — a straight shot and about a half-mile east of the Edmund Pettus Bridge — contains a welcome message to President Obama.
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