A&E shelves ‘Escaping the KKK’ after learning of cash payouts to participants

A narrative arrangement that was set to take viewers inside the Ku Klux Klan has been scratched off by A&E after the system found that a portion of the show's makers had made money installments to members on the show.

The eight-section arrangement, "Getting away from the KKK," guaranteed a very close take a gander at high-positioning Klan individuals and their families, yet it had incited wide objection since news about the show turned out Dec. 18.

For a system best known for shows like "Hoarders" and "Intercession," the KKK arrangement spoke to a strikingly confounded and politically charged attempt, and fell into a bothering national civil argument about the potential glamorization of prejudice and extremism that has become just louder since the presidential race.

The show's makers had attempted to quiet the reaction lately, changing the title of the arrangement from "Era KKK," with its dubiously sentimental hints, to "Getting away from the KKK: A Documentary Series Exposing Hate in America." They additionally declared an organization with Color of Change, a social equality bunch that had communicated worry about the show, to build up a portion of the program's fragments and to give more setting. The system guarded the show, which it said would "uncover and battle bigotry and contempt in every one of its structures.