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So this happened.

A Ku Klux Klan group from North Carolina is being accused of trying to recruit members from the predominately black Florida neighborhood of New Smyrna Beach.

According to WFTV:

Leaders passed out hundreds of fliers near North Myrtle Street over the past couple of days.

Resident Tim Washington said he was headed to work Monday morning when something stopped him in his tracks.

“(I) saw that it was a piece of paper on the ground and it had hate stuff on it,” Washington said.

Washington was the recipient of a flier from a North Carolina Ku Klux Klan group seen during an August cross-burning.

The fliers read:

“Our race is our nation.”

They also include a picture of a member dressed in the distinctive KKK attire. Washington and other neighbors have called the police to report the fliers.

But the leader of the group is claiming that he didn’t know the neighborhood was predominantly black.

KKK Leader Robert Jones said over the phone that members dropped the fliers at night, so they had no idea who lived in the neighborhood.

“You say this was a recruiting effort; however, your group targeted a predominately black neighborhood,” asked Channel 9’s Ryan Hughes.

“Well, we don’t have no way of judging where we’re putting the fliers at,” Jones said.

The group plans to pass out up to 600 fliers in this area in the coming days.

SOURCE: WFTV | PHOTO CREDIT: Getty