Update: Kenny Schneck, a Georgia neo-Nazi mentioned in this article, died in late April 2020.
On October 4-5, 2019, the International Keystone Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (IKKKKK) held a two-day event on private property in Morgan County, Georgia (approximately half an hour south of Athens, GA). According to the Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy quoted by local media, a Friday KKK meeting was attended by approximately ten people. A related social event the next day attracted approximately thirty. The event also included a cross lighting, although electric lights rather than fire were used due to a law against burning after dark. An International Keystone Knights banner was displayed outside the property. Approximately sixty federal, state and local cops patrolled the area while the racist gathering took place, essentially giving the KKK free security at public expense.
The local Morgan County Citizen discussed the Klan gathering as happening at a residence “on Aqua Lane” with the nighttime cross lighting being visible “off of Aqua Road”. Although the paper did not print the name of the individual who hosted the Klan event, we can confirm that the event was hosted at John Richard Thompson’s property in Madison. While Madison County property records list his land as being on Aqua Road, Thompson’s property also borders Aqua Lane on the opposite side.
John Richard Thompson and wife Bonita Thompson
A look at John Thompson’s Facebook profile shows him to be deeply immersed in Klan networks. Among those connected to Thompson on social media are:
Greg Calhoun (“Thor Calhoun”), the Georgia grand dragon (main state organizer) of the IKKKKK who is also active in the racist/Southern secessionist League of the South (LOS)
Shealyn Winkler (“Shealyn Marie”) of Mississippi, Shaun Walker’s wife
Jeremy Walls, who appears to be tattooing in Memphis, Tennessee despite an earlier arrest in Mississippi for inappropriate contact with teenagers while giving them tattoos. Walls has been mentioned by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an IKKKKK “associate”.
John Thompson jokes with National Socialist Liberation Front Deputy Director Sharon Robinson (“Lea Symons”) about hanging those they consider as race traitors.
In addition to his many KKK friends, John Thompson is also connected online to members of the revived National Socialist Liberation Front (NSLF), a small neo-Nazi organization which endorses violent struggle against what it believes to be a corrupt, Jewish-controlled society. On Facebook, Thompson has joked with Sharon Robinson of Alabama (AKA “Lea Symons”, Sharon Symons Connell), the Deputy Director of the NSLF, about mass hangings of their enemies. This is an allusion to the “Day of the Rope” in The Turner Diaries, an infamous piece of white supremacist propaganda.
Thompson is also online friends with Kenneth Wayne Schneck (“Kenny Larkin”) of Centerville, Georgia, plus Kenneth’s wife Amanda Schneck (née Amanda Leigh Johnson). On the Russian social media site VKontakte, Kenneth Schneck boasted of being a Captain in the NSLF in 2018. On his “Kenny Larkin” Facebook, Schneck also claims to support the “PCK Brotherhood” – the Pacific Coast Knights, a Klan group mainly based on the US West Coast.
Schneck’s 2018 NSLF membership card with “Captain” rank
On his Facebook, Thompson has joked with Kenneth’s wife Amanda Schneck about making Nazi salutes.
Amanda Schneck and John Thompson joke about Nazi salutes
Thompson’s friendship with NSLF
members Sharon Robinson and Kenneth Schneck is not surprising, as the IKKKKK
and NSLF generally appear to be on good terms.
Morgan County resident alarmed by October 2019 cross-lighting on Thompson’s property
Since Thompson is committed to the Klan and jokes about the mass murder of supposed race traitors, we believe Thompson is a threat to those around him. Many Morgan County residents already know that John Thompson hosted the Ku Klux Klan gathering in October, but we are publishing this article for the benefit of those who may not have heard the news. Some of our documentation about the depth of Thompson’s Klan ties may be new, as well as our information on Thompson’s friendship with militant neo-Nazis. We hope this information is useful to those living in Thompson’s neck of the woods.
Please get in touch if you have further information on John Richard Thompson, other individuals mentioned in this article, or other Klan/white supremacist activity in our state.
Update 2/14/2020: This article discusses a nighttime photo of people giving Klan salutes, that was posted online in 2018. One of the individuals in the photo was unidentified when we first published our article. He is Douglas Leroy Savage of Cleveland, Georgia.
Doug Savage, photo posted online 2019
Savage (L) & Robert McDuffie (R), posted by McDuffie in 2014
Introduction
On September 14, 2019, a “Patriots”/Trump rally took place in Dahlonega, Georgia. The main organizer for the rally was Chester Doles, a neo-Nazi and self-described “fourth-generation Klansman”. Although organizers claimed their rally was not white supremacist, and the speaker lineup even included Black conservative commentator Lucretia Hughes in addition to white nationalistspeakers, one of the main organized groups at the rally was from a North Georgia-based Ku Klux Klan faction, the SCKKKK. Here, we identify several members or supporters of this Klan group, discuss their role in the September 14 Dahlonega rally, and provide some background on their organization.
Dahlonega
On the day of Doles’ rally, a group of approximately twenty people marched with Doles into their designated rally area. Doles’ supporters had initially met up in a nearby parking lot. A picture from this lot shows that two KKK members, Jonathan Keith Miller and Robert C. McDuffie, were among the first to meet up with Doles.
Jonathan Miller and Robert McDuffie meet up with Chester Doles in parking lot before rally. Original image from reporter Doug Richards’ Twitter.
By the time Doles’ group marched in, three others formed a small group with McDuffie and Miller. The five stuck together throughout the event. Two of the others, Robert Craig Korom and Cody Steven Cantrell, are Klan supporters and likely members. We have not identified the fifth member of the group, and therefore cannot establish whether he is a Ku Klux Klan member or merely tagged along with the Klan group for Doles’ rally.
Ku Klux Klan group in Dahlonega, September 14, 2019. Still from News2Share footage.
In photos from mid-2018, Robert
McDuffie appears with four others, posing with firearms and giving left-armed
Klan salutes.
Photo posted by Kevin McDuffie, July 2018. L-R: Cody Cantrell, Robert McDuffie, Kevin McDuffie, Christopher Jones and Jonathan Miller.
Photo posted by Jonathan Keith Miller as “JJ Miller”. Added to Facebook on September 2018, but presumably from same day as above photo. L-R: Cody Cantrell, Robert McDuffie, Christopher Jones, Kevin McDuffie and Jonathan Miller.
Note that three of those pictured giving Klan salutes — Robert McDuffie, Jonathan Miller and Cody Cantrell — were in Dahlonega for Chester Doles’ “Patriots” rally on September 14.
Kevin David McDuffie, who appears in the 2018 daytime pictures, is a brother of Robert McDuffie and also goes by the name “Kraker”. Kevin McDuffie has a lengthy criminal record which includes the distribution of methamphetamine. His most recent arrest was in August 2018.
Another image of a group giving Klan
salutes — this time shot at night — was published by Kevin McDuffie some weeks
before he shared the daytime photo (and before his most recent bust for carrying
meth). Robert and Kevin McDuffie are visible, as are Christopher D Jones and
Jonathan Keith Miller, who appeared in the daytime group photos.
Photo posted by Kevin McDuffie to Facebook, July 1, 2018. L-R: Jonathan Miller, Christopher Jones, Kevin McDuffie, unidentified individual and Robert McDuffie.
One individual in the nighttime
photo has yet to be identified. This person also appears in a photo with Kevin
McDuffie, seemingly from the same evening. A photo from 2014 shows the same
person posing with Robert McDuffie. Robert McDuffie calls him the “truest
brother I ever had”.
2018 photo with Kevin McDuffie.
2014 pic with Robert McDuffie.
Jonathan Keith Miller (AKA “Jonnathan Miller” and “JJ Miller”), who features in the 2018 photos and also showed up in Dahlonega, identifies himself as a Klansman. In a comment accompanying one of the above photos, Jonathan Miller (“JJ Miller”) writes to Robert McDuffie (profile as “Reb White”): “AKIA NON SILBA SED ANTHAR”. “AKIA” is an acronym for “A Klansman I Am”. The rest of Miller’s comment is a Ku Klux Klan slogan.
Jonathan Miller giving Klan salute, 2018. Posted by Kevin McDuffie, likely from the same evening as nighttime group photo.
It is unclear whether Cody Cantrell of Cleveland, Georgia — included in the daytime Klan group photos — is a full member of the SCKKKK, or if he merely enjoys giving Klan salutes alongside self-identified KKK members and attending a recent rally with them. Cantrell is linked on social media to severalsupportersof the Klangroup as well as to Dawsonville white supremacist Justin Dean Maddox (see below).
Cody Cantrell linked to open white supremacist Justin Maddox. More info on Maddox below.
Finally, Robert Craig Korom of
Cumming, Georgia — who was at the Dahlonega rally with the SCKKKK group — is
not pictured giving Klan salutes in any photographs we have found. However,
Korom clearly signals his support for the Klan. In one Facebook comment from
2014, Korom states that he is “proud of this organization [the KKK]” which he
believes is standing up for “the white community”.
Robert Korom writes about the KKK on Facebook page of an unfortunately named musical act, 2014.
In 2015, Korom “liked” a Klan recruitment image posted by “Jimmy Maddog” (Justin Maddox, see below). More recently, Korom “liked” an image of two clasped white hands in front of a Celtic Cross, a symbol used by white nationalists. The image was posted by SCKKKK organizer Robert McDuffie’s account as “Reb White”. Robert Korom is linkedon social mediato othersupporters of the SCKKKK.
Images “liked” on Facebook by Robert Korom.
On Instagram, Korom displays the hat he wore to Chester Doles’ 9/14/2019 rally in Dahlonega
Group Name and Background
We noted that Robert McDuffie, an
apparent leader of the Klan group we are discussing, identifies his
organization as the “SCKKKK”. However, the meaning of these initials remains
mysterious.
One Facebook profile for Robert McDuffie mentions “SCKKKK”
We know of two Klan groups that operated in Georgia and used the initials “SCK”. The first, the Southern Confederate Knights of the KKK, existed in the early 1990s and was based in Rome, Georgia, which is about two hours’ drive from Cleveland, Georgia, where the current SCKKKK is centered. The second group, the Silent Circle Knights of the KKK, held events in a few states. One such event was an April 2012 picnic and cross-burning in Clarkesville, Georgia which was co-organized by the larger Loyal White Knights. That “SCK” Klan group has been silent for over half a decade.
Gayle Hathcock Maddox and Justin Dean Maddox, image posted May 2017
Clarkesville, where the 2012 picnic occurred, is not far from Cleveland, Georgia, where the current “SCKKKK” is based. However, the present group likely has a different origin. In recent years, a married couple based in Dawsonville, Georgia — Justin Dean Maddox and Gayle Hathcock Maddox — maintained a number of Facebook pages where they boasted about their Ku Klux Klan affiliations. For example, on the “Intro” section to one of his Facebook profiles, Justin Maddox wrote: “Join the Klan. Let us know.” Maddox’s posts with KKK symbols date from 2015 to 2017. Between his profiles in his own name and those under the alias “Jimmy Maddog”, Justin Maddox was linked on social media to Robert McDuffie, Robert Korom and Cody Cantrell.
2017 discussion between Robert McDuffie (as “Bob White”, yet another alias) and Robert Korom mentioning “Maddog” (Justin Maddox). Note that Korom and McDuffie spell “OK” as “OKKK”.
In August 2015, Justin Maddox shared
the web address for the “Christian Southern Knight [sic] of Georgia KKK”, an
obscure Klan group. The website is no longer online and is not archived on
third-party websites. Since several people linked to Justin Maddox are members
or supporters of the “SCKKKK”, it appears that the present group is a direct or
indirect descendant of the “Christian Southern Knight” KKK publicized by
Maddox. Our best guess is that the word order was simply changed, with “SCKKKK”
now standing for “Southern Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan”. We would
welcome any additional information or documentation on this matter.
2015: “Christian Southern Knight of the Georgia KKK” website link
Conclusion
In Dahlonega, members/supporters of the SCKKKK marched in with Chester Doles for his September rally in Dahlonega. The Klan group was one of the largest organized contingents at Doles’ rally. This further contradicts Doles’ claim that his event was not about white supremacy.
As an organization, the SCKKKK is small. Even watchdog organizations that usually monitor the Klan have failed to note its activity. Other than the supporters we have named here, the SCKKKK likely has only a few other participants. We do not wish to exaggerate the group’s importance by writing about them. However, from Kevin McDuffie’s involvement in the methamphetamine trade to the blotchy prison-style tattoos displayed by some other supporters, there are indications that this Klan outfit may overlap with regional white power gang culture. This, combined with seeming leader Robert McDuffie’s celebration of Bruce Pierce — a white supremacist terrorist — suggests that the Klan group cannot entirely be written off as a threat. Now that this group is organizing side-by-side with longtime racist leader Chester Doles, we think they deserve some scrutiny and that those living nearby should be informed.
If you have further information about the Klan supporters pictured here, or about other white supremacist activity in our region, please get in contact.
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