Some believe the Coors Company is connected to the KKK [more]
In
his book, " The Coors Connection ," author Russ Bellent points out that
Pete allowed the Coors Foundation to continue funding the Council for
National Policy, a right-wing group whose board member, Richard Shoff ,
was a leader of the Ku Klux Klan in Indiana. Bellent also points out
the Coors Foundation "gave $2500 in 1981 to the ultra-rightist
Patriotic American Youth, Inc., a group which also distributes
explicitly racist literature." And Pete Coors's uncle, William Coors,
told a group of African-American businessmen in Denver that blacks "
lack the intellectual capacity to succeed ." [more]
