Mom dressed son as Klansman for Halloween because it’s a family tradition

[Coyotl]

Is the KKK still active in your hood?

Mom dressed son as Klansman for Halloween because it’s a family tradition
http://www.salon.com/2013/11/04/mom_dressed_son_up_as_klansman_for_halloween_because_its_a_family_tradition/

This year’s most offensive Halloween costume “winner” is doting mother Jessica Black of Craigsville, Va., who was just upholding a time-honored family tradition when she decided to send her 7-year-old son out as a KKK member. “My brother was [a Klansman] when he was in kindergarten and when he was 13,” Black told WHSV.

Her son Jackson apparently saw the white supremacist costume in the movie “Fried Green Tomatoes” and made his mom proud when he asked if he could dress up at a Klansman for Halloween “cuz it was cool.”

“I did tell him that if you do it, you know there’s going to be people talking about you, there’s going to be people saying bad things about you when you do wear it,” she said.

Though everyone who is not racist is outraged by the costume, Black defended her position. “It’s supposed to be white with white. Black with black. Man with woman and all of that. That’s what the KKK stands for. The KKK every year, raises money to donate to the St. Jude’s,” she said, explaining that the KKK still has a presence in Craigsville. ........

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

1. Geez Louise!!!

What is wrong with people? This has to violate some child neglect or abuse law. We've got our share of whackos in the Old Dominion.

[GreenStormCloud]

4. Totally legal. First Amendment.

And as much as think she is wrong to do it, I will defend her right to be wrong.

[Blue_Tires]

10. Oh, I'm pretty sure I can make a leap

and say that if that kid was sent around a neighborhood with black residents, it could be legally interpreted as harassment, intimidation, a threat of some kind of hate crime...Had that kid shown up on my door, I promise you I'd have been calling the cops...

[GreenStormCloud]

2. She needs to kill that tradition - now.

No Klan activity around here. In fact, I have never seen any Klan activity in my life. I grew up in Bee County, TX, and as an adult have lived in LA, MS, AL, FL, GA, VA, RI, PR, GU (Granted, PR & GU aren't states) and been in all the other states except AK. I have never seen any Klan activity.

[Blue_Tires]

6. Where in VA did you live?

[GreenStormCloud]

7. Norfolk area for 1.5 years. Navy. N/T

[Blue_Tires]

12. A shame you're no longer here...We'd have been able to hang out sometime...

[theHandpuppet]

14. I have been on the receiving end of Klan activity in Virginia

If you think the Klan doesn't operate in Virginia, you are sadly mistaken. But Norfolk is a lot different than the western parts of that state.

[GreenStormCloud]

16. I don't claim the Klan is extinct. (Although they should be.)

I do claim that they are not all pervasive as some here like to pretend.

[Blue_Tires]

3. Wow...and does the St. Judes actually accept these donations?

or did she pull that out of her ass?

[Aristus]

5. To hell with your tradition, lady!!!

I'm only two generations removed from the Klan, and I recognize it for the abomination that it is. It's not a 'tradition' with me or any one else with a shred of humanity.

There's a word I'm not supposed to call this women, so I'll just think it...

[sarisataka]

8. omg... no, it is

O M F G!!!!!!!!!

That’s what the KKK stands for

... the KKK also stand for a few other things, but I am sure she is well aware of that

[progressoid]

9. Heh. Ironic name.

[Mika]

11. Didn't the potential future monarch of Brittania dress up as a nazi?

Yes.

[dixiegrrrrl]

13. Actually that would have been the 2nd most offensive costume idea.

In my mnd, the hands down winner is the dipso who dressed as a Boston Marathon bomb victim.
.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023971161

[KamaAina]

18. A dipso is a drunk (short for "dipsomaniac").

Someone who would dress as a Boston Marathon bomb victim is a dipshit.

[backscatter712]

15. It's Cartman!

Let's dress up as a ghost!

http://www.southparkstudios.co.uk/clips/149906/hitler-is-cool

[KamaAina]

17. I loved that scene in Fried Green Tomatoes

it turned out all the women knew who was in the Klan, because none of them bothered to change their shoes.

[gopiscrap]

19. that's fucked up