When the KKK took their travelling show to the little Wisconsin town of Elkhorn, the hooded ones got their oxes gored in the process. Seems the county board was all set to offcially denounce the Klansmen by passing a resolution denouncing “hate groups” when an alert citizen decried using the word hate, because, well, hate is one mean and insensitive moniker. Fortunately, a solution swiftly arrived: The Klan would offcially be branded an “unhappy group.” What a cross for a hoodlum to have to burn, er, bear — no longer feared, melancholy Klansmen are to be understood
The resolution also included the creation of something called “Project Lemonade,” which placed local charities in the very unhappy position of wanting the aforementioned “unhappy group” to stay in town and say unhappy things for months on end. Why? Because the aim of “Project Lemonade” was to make “lemonade out of lemons” by getting Elkhornians to donate a certain sum of cash to a favorite charity for each minute the Kluxers hung around.
