Klu Klux Klan May Be Recruiting In Philly

In a follow-up to a story Fox 29 broke on Wednesday, the Klu Klux Klan may be trying to recruit new members in Philadelphia as well as Delaware.

According to the latest Census data, about 62 percent of Philadelphia's population is Black, Latino or Asian.

Fox 29’s Claudia Gomez talked to one of the top leaders in the Klu Klux Klan on Thursday. She spoke to Chris Barker by phone and he's the number two guy in a faction of the KKK called the "Rebel Brigade, Knights Of The Ku Klux Klan."

Barker is based in North Carolina, and he says he oversees KKK operations in Delaware:

For the past several months, the Ku Klux Klan has been leaving a calling card outside homes in New Castle County, Delaware, hoping to find new members. The baggies include a couple of phone numbers. So we called, and eventually heard back from barker.

"We're going to start doing more stuff in Delaware. We're looking at now purchasing land out there for a compound they're going to have built out there. We'll start holding our annual meetings in Delaware and Maryland,” he said.

The Klan is hoping to buy that land just outside Wilmington, near the neighborhoods where it's been recruiting. Once the compound is built, the KKK is planning, "regular Klan rallies with the cross-lighting ritual and all that, will be held there."

Barker says the Klan's campaign to beef up membership in New Castle County is working.

"Way over 500 members out there, just in that one section … between Northern Delaware and the border of Pennsylvania, right through there,” Barker said.

We don't know if barker is exaggerating the numbers. But we do know another faction of the KKK is also trying to recruit in Philadelphia.

"Hello marc, this is Adam from your local Ku Klux Klan,” was a voice mail left for Fox 29 viewer Marc Eichler.

The caller intentionally distorted the sound of his voice, when he left this message on Eichler's cellphone.

"We'd like to find out how much you hate n-----s, and we're also trying to recruit for our annual drive, recruiting drive."

Eichler never called them back, "because I have no interest in joining the KKK."

"It's not the deep south, this area is so culturally diverse... And you just don't know what they would want in this area."

Fox 29 called the number left on Eichler's voicemail.

A man who identified himself as the national director told us there is no KKK phone campaign in Philadelphia.

And he doesn't know who left the message or why.

He also told us his group has no affiliation with the group operating in Delaware.