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Petula Dvorak: KKK flyers are a cry for attention — but they can't be ignored

The white supremacists and neo-Nazis who marched on Charlottesville, Va., the cowardly racists posting anonymous flyers on college campuses, the social media trolls derailing any civil discussion anywhere — what do they all want?

Why else would someone come to a suburban neighborhood in northern Virginia and drop racist and anonymous Ku Klux Klan flyers on driveways in the dark of night on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend?

Homeowners on Aurora Court in Leesburg woke up to those flyers. One of the neighbors in the enclave of bisque- and putty-colored homes went up and down the street, removing the missives — which were strangely packaged in Ziploc bags weighed down with a handful of birdseed — before the rest of the street got them.