Patrons mistake ice cream shop mascot for KKK

[Tejas]

Liza Diaz, who manages the store for Cantres and co-owner Jesus Diaz, said an employee at the bank where she does business told her a co-worker was so frightened by the white dollop patrolling the street corner that she called her husband crying and refused to drive through the intersection.

http://www.ocala.com/article/20110926/ARTICLES/110929750

[CBHagman]

1. "...frightened by the white dollop..."

Here's a sentence I never thought I'd read:

http://www.ocala.com/article/20110926/ARTICLES/110929750

Liza Diaz, who manages the store for Cantres and co-owner Jesus Diaz, said an employee at the bank where she does business told her a co-worker was so frightened by the white dollop patrolling the street corner that she called her husband crying and refused to drive through the intersection.


I'm sure it was wholly innocent, but boy, time to go back to the drawing board on that costume design there, people.

[TwilightGardener]

2. I can't stop giggling about the scary white dollop.

[emilyg]

7. I'm laughing out loud.

[reggie the dog]

35. laugh that someone traumatized by lynchings and the kkk

was in tears thinking that the kkk had set up a checkpoint in ultra right wing controlled florida??? someone thought the kkk was back to business as usual as per pre 1966 and is brought to tears and you laugh about it?

[cwydro]

48. Me too...

"scary white dollop".

Might giggle all afternoon now if I allow that phrase to stay in my brain.

[cwydro]

49. Me too...

"scary white dollop".

Might giggle all afternoon now if I allow that phrase to stay in my brain.

[Liberal_in_LA]

54. hee hee!

[richmwill]

14. The person "crying on the phone" had me laughing. (n/t)

[reggie the dog]

34. why laugh, perhaps they are black and saw someone from their family

be kidnapped and lynched, if they were alive pre 1965 or so it is a possibility.

[RZM]

41. That is certainly possible. Though I doubt it

I think it has more to do with the culture of rumor and the idea of the KKK as a bogeyman.

When I was in elementary school, every once in a while a rumor would circulate among the African-American kids that after school that day, the KKK was going to kill any black child who was wearing x colored shirt or x brand of shoes. This was in Ohio in the 1980s.

From what I know, the Civil Rights era Klan was more or less broken decades ago through successful FBI infiltration and (I imagine) a natural process of decline as society moved forward. I think it hardly exists now and when they do surface, it's half a dozen guys at a time whose only purpose is to annoy the rest of society by marching through town. They are always vastly outnumbered by counter-protesters and police escorts. At this point they are pretty much a joke.

[HappyMe]

20. lol!

That's funny.

[reggie the dog]

36. funny?

funny that someone thought the kkk was back to setting up roadblocks and cried about it???? that is a sick sense of humor.

[0rganism]

75. why not "frightened by the white mask with a pointy top"?

Instead, it's a "dollop". Great journalism there.

Maybe the klan should just start calling their hoods "dollops" too. Makes them seem like harmless tasty treats instead of vicious gun-packing racists.

[Lucian]

3. Isn't that an African-American male dressed as an ice cream cone?

I'm pretty sure African Americans wouldn't be in the KKK.

Just a guess.

And it looks nothing like a KKK uniform.

[TwilightGardener]

5. I think he's Hispanic. And he's got sprinkles and a cone.

[Electric Monk]

13. Reminds me of a Dave Chappelle skit, with his character Clayton Bigsby

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHFUH_frhBw

[rustydog]

4. "Hello, Acme Advertising design department? I have a problem..."

[MADem]

6. What an amateurish costume--but it doesn't look like a Klansman at all

He looks like a guy in a crappy ice cream cone outfit!

[Recovered Repug]

18. I suppose that if it were viewed from a distance (or passing car)

and only saw the back of the head, it could be mistaken for a KKK outfit - at first. I think I would have checked to be sure though.

[Supersedeas]

62. everything is subject to interpretation

[LeftyMom]

8. The scary part is that somebody has to wear that out in the sun in Florida.

I feel sick just imagining how it must smell.

[Quantess]

73. Sweaty ice cream cone! Eeew!

[Kennah]

9. Just being the Devil's Advocate here ...

... but if the KKK ever did an about face and joined with the Rainbow Coalition, the new uniform might look this way.

[Marrah_G]

16. LOL

[SwampG8r]

28. the sprinkles represent

all the colors in the white power rainbow!

[NightWatcher]

10. Vanilla Power

Was a poor naming choice for their vanilla ice cream

[JohnnyRingo]

58. That's the funniest thing I've read all day.

I hope the hand wringers don't read this because I don't want lectured on civil rights, but I think your sense of humor is deep and subtle. Kudos

[bluestate10]

11. Someone didn't think that one out.

Why not put him in a banana split costume?

[TwilightGardener]

12. I think a banana costume could also conceivably misfire.

[Marrah_G]

15. Ummm its a black man dressed like an ice cream cone with sprinkles.....

That woman needs therapy...

[Warren DeMontague]

17. IF ONLY THE KKK WERE THAT FROSTY AND DELICIOUS!

With sprinkles, no less!

[Obamanaut]

19. . nt

[Nye Bevan]

21. That dude would *definitely* inspire me to buy an ice cream cone.

Pure marketing genius.

[Saphire]

22. any idiot that can't tell the difference between an ice cream cone

and a klansman, well......

[Maeve]

23. Just switch it to chocolate! eom

[LeftinOH]

24. The KKK outfits don't have facey cut-outs; they don't wave at traffic, either. n/t

[Javaman]

25. Note to promoter: go with the scoop next time. nt

[14thColony]

26. The fact it was Ocala pretty much explains it for me. nt

[SwampG8r]

27. i knew before i even clicked it would be here in florida

we have vine ripe crazy all year round!

[-..__...]

29. I wonder if any actual Klansmen waved back?

[DainBramaged]

30. STUPID PEOPLE SHOULDN'T BREED

Looks like a fucking ice cream cone costume to me........

[seabeyond]

32. lol, yup. nt

[reggie the dog]

37. how do you know that the scared, crying, offended people

did not witness the kkk kidnap a family member to be lynched when they were younger? it was pretty common up until the 1960s. i read this story and imagine a woman my mother or grandmothers age freaking out crying thinking that the kkk is back to just posting people in town to make sure that the "niggers go home" and dont stay downtown too long and "give the town the wrong image". you read the article and think that the person just must be the stupid child of a stupid parent.....

[DainBramaged]

42. You really should be writing detective novels

stop now you're trying too hard.

[reggie the dog]

43. trying too hard???

you assume stupid and that is not trying too hard???

[DainBramaged]

57. I'm not the one trying to make a planet from sand

[reggie the dog]

60. yet your assumption that the person is the "stupid" offspring

of a "stupid" parent is completely logical?????


as someone on the left i tend to think that it sort of fucked up to mock people who cry when they think they see what they think is a klansman out on the street corner.

[DainBramaged]

63. What the fuck ever.....make of it what you will, this is bullshit an you know it

and people afraid of ice cream cone costumes need more help that you can ever offer.

Cya.

[reggie the dog]

67. and people that think they are so smart as to tell others not to breed

need help too. i am not sorry for trying to imagine why someone would be so upset by this costume, that they mistook for a klansman. perhaps they do need help, like i said perhaps they knew someone beaten, or worse, by the klan, when they were younger....

[Tejas]

70. /subthread

[cwydro]

51. Never seen a KKKer wearing a cookie cone...

just sayin'...

[DainBramaged]

56. And that is the point in spite of those who look for issues everywhere claiming high ground

[reggie the dog]

66. this from someone who claims that stupid people shouldnt breed

so the parents of the person who cried when they saw this should not have had kids because you say so and i am "looking" for an issue? please, who gets to decide who is smart enough to have kids? is there a literacy test????

[Tejas]

71. Correct, stupid people like the KKK'ers should not breed.

[reggie the dog]

80. i disagree

the folly of parents does not automatically lead to folly in their offspring. plus who gets to decide who is "too stupid" to breed?

[reggie the dog]

64. a still shot as opposed to someone driving past at 35 mph

just sayin'

[Nevernose]

72. It's got sprinkles...

...and he's waving a sign. Just sayin'.

[reggie the dog]

79. sprinkles could be eggs and veggies thrown at klansman???

;)

[AngryAmish]

31. Florida...

[name not needed]

68. Daniel Tosh said it best: flat, hot, and dumb.

[reggie the dog]

33. the manager never heard of the kkk

and is from puerto rico, part of the usa, so has gone to school in what is part of the usa, studied history in the usa, and never heard of the kkk???? did she sleep through history class??? you would think that as a person who is mixed white, black and native american she would have been curious about the ending of slavery and night riders and the like but i guess not, i imagine she learned more about puerto rican history than we do in the mainland but how can she never have heard of the kkk???? how many clueless people do we run into every day?

[RZM]

38. I'm sure he was taught about it

He probably just didn't pay much attention in history class. That's not uncommon.

[dembotoz]

39. that could be a wonderful thing

i would like to think that someone who went to school in Puerto Rico would be very informed on the history of Puerto Rico. I would like to think they would also be very well informed about the history of the other islands down there.

Lacking in mainland us history? OK

Could just be like when i was in school. All us history classes started with the explorers on thru the war of independence to maybe the civil war. Then the semester would be over. It was like nothing really important happened from maybe 1860 til present.
When i went to the university, i took European History instead of us history becasue if i had to study the Stamp act one more time i was going to vomit.

[reggie the dog]

44. i agree that they should get much more history of the west indies

and a lot of puerto rican history but they are a commonwealth with the usa so should learn us history as they are made to study english as a second language in their schools.

[Marrah_G]

45. alot of people don't pay attention to or have any interest in history.

[reggie the dog]

50. i suspected that a good 20 of the 35 students i have at any given

time I am giving a history lecture just are not listening, that they dont give a damn about doing homework and do piss poor oral projects and classwork, yet when these same 20 kids fail the test and have poor grades my boss bitches me out for not being an effective teacher.....

[Marrah_G]

59. Yup and sadly I bet those same kids have parents who dont care either

My kids grew up on a diet of documentaries, books and even some marches. They care because I care and because I show them what is happening. Now they watch more educational things then anything else, all on their own. Am I a great parent.... no, not really, but at least I know they are heading into the world with a curiosity about what is happening around them instead of being experts on the Family Guy.

[reggie the dog]

61. family guy is a good critique of american culture

like the simpsons or south park to certain extents, but it is rare that i watch any of those cartoons anyway, i dont even own a tv

[Xithras]

53. As a parent of a high school student in California....

...I can tell you, as an undisputable fact, that the KKK is mentioned in only three of the paragraphs of her U.S. history text.

There's an entire chapter dedicated to racial injustice, Jim Crow laws, and segregation, but the book attributes these to institutional racism throughout the south. The Klan itself is only mentioned in a few paragraphs. The paragraphs are very clear in portraying them as extremist, murdering thugs, but there is still very little material on them.

When I was in college in the early 90's, my post-Civil War history class gave them much the same treatment. They were mentioned, but weren't exactly emphasized.

For kids and younger adults who grew up outside the south, and after the KKK ceased to be a political force, it's pretty easy forget that they existed at all.

[reggie the dog]

55. as a history teacher i really stress how the kkk was a domestic terror

organization and just how and who they terrorized.

[Aerows]

40. It's sad

and funny all at the same time.

[KansDem]

46. Bringing a kinder, gentler face to the KKK

A possible PR campaign?
Our ice cream is as cold as our hearts

[cwydro]

47. The cone part of the outfit

really should have been a clue lol.

[GoCubsGo]

52. Why are people mocking the patrons?

They may be confused, but folks seem to miss the point that they are upset about the possibility of the KKK being there, rather than cheering it. And, considering where this took place, it's a good sign. It's not horrendously far from where the Rosewood Massacre took place. They have come a long way, in the right direction, IMHO.

[Tejas]

69. Confused? No, they're afraid of their own shadow.

[jberryhill]

65. French Government Announces Ban On Ice Cream Cone Costumes /nt

[tammywammy]

76. LOL! n/t

[GaYellowDawg]

74. Oh no! It's the KKKone!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[frogmarch]

77. Yes, it sounds funny, but

from a distance these guys might look like white dollops too:

[ecstatic]

78. Bookmarking this thread for future reference... nt