News: KKK Costume

Night_Sprite

Some people dressed up as KKK members on Halloween and now they have problems.  I'm really not surprised.  Half the people in a poll the news took voted that it was just harmless holiday fun.  What?  Am I wrong to think the KKK should never be harmless holiday fun?

TurtlesAllTheWayDown

I don't think you're wrong. I think you are RIGHT. Harmless WTF? I'm totally dressing up as Hitler next Halloween and seeing how that goes over. Oh, it's just for fun guys! It's not like I'm the REAL Hitler!

laurenclaire1386

NO. Not harmless holiday fun at all.  I grew up in a place where the Klan still had an active chapter.  Nothing ridiculously crazy happened where I grew up, but even knowing that there were people around there that were part of an organization like that made me crazy.  Nothing about the KKK is humorous or harmless and it never will be. 

MeaghanandMichael

Where did the dressing up happen and where was the poll taken?But no, NOT harmless. I can get a sense of humor about a lot of stuff, but nothing like this.

mwhitson14

Whatever happened with rick's friends who dressed up as Hitler/concentration camp victim? I think anything like that, Hitler, KKK, whatever, is ridiculous and inappropriate.

sarah0725

Not harmless or funny at all. I spent enough time in contact with anti-racist action groups in college to know that there are white supremacist groups everywhere, not just in the South or in rural areas. There are plenty of groups in NJ, and I know there's a group of skinheads that is run out of a town 20 minutes from me in Delaware. They are out there and they are scary, and nobody should be dressing like them for fun. The two neo-Nazi rallies I protested were the scariest shiit I have ever seen.

punkyb2b

Fuucktards.

Night_Sprite

A small town in Iowa.  It is beyond stupid. 

anna.oskar

ricks' friends decided not to do it since it bothered people.

mwhitson14

Thanks anna. I didn't see an F/U.

Night_Sprite

There were 4 of them.  They can't be well educated people.  The girl they interviewed had either missing teeth or really bad gaps in her teeth. 

TurtlesAllTheWayDown

ricks' friends decided not to do it since it bothered people. Probably the understatement of the year.

FutureMrsDudley55

Whoa. Yea I don't find that funny at all either.

skiingstark

Wearing KKK outfit is not harmless. The school I student taught at in WV did not allow anyone to wear a costume because last year a couple students painted themselves black and wore a noose.  There are still racists around in this country you can look at the Maine results to see how backwards our country still is.

[Deleted User]

You're not wrong at all. I would find that beyond offensive. I don't understand those awful costumes like KKK and Hilter. BTW Night Sprite - you were in one of my dreams last night.

Night_Sprite

What happened in your dream?

missy68

Yeah, notsomuch at all.On a side note, when I was young and living in NC, there was a huge riot in Greensboro - KKK, Nazis, and communist labor party, if I remember correctly. It was ugly, historical, and bloody. The KKK and Nazis joined together to attack the anti-KKK rally.Here's a link to a video of news clips, if you're interested. I didn't want to link any of the other stories; couldn't tell which were subtle racist propaganda sites, and I don't want them on my computer or yours.[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmxdC_peeV8[/url]

Moneypenny424

Yeah, um, I'm afraid of the KKK, skin-heads, etc.  Not funny at all.

missy68

Me, too, Money. Me, too.  I've always lived in the South and never understood that ridiculous mentality.I remember being terrified that day the riot happened in Greensboro. Come to think of it, yesterday was the 30th anniversary of that riot in Greensboro. We lived in a town about 20 miles from there.Sad to think it was also the town where one of the counter "sit-ins" happened less than 20 years' prior.

[Deleted User]

I have no idea. I was so pissed because I woke up and couldn't remember a damn thing. All I know is that you were in it. I like to think we were skipping through a field or something.

smokeybailey

Dressing up?  I bet they already had the "costumes" in their closets....

squirrly

Not cool at all. 

TnJBonnell

No, your not wrong! How can someone say holiday harmless fun?? WTF is wrong with people!?