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jpak

(41,759 posts)
Mon Nov 2, 2015, 02:31 PM Nov 2015

Outrage in Oklahoma town after mayor's husband and other residents dress up as members of Ku Klux Kl

Source: NY Daily News

No one is laughing at this Halloween prank after some residents of an Oklahoma town — including the mayor's husband — dressed up as members of the Ku Klux Klan.

A picture of the robed figures and apparent burning crosses in Lahoma has been heavily circulated on social media the last few days.

Concerned resident Misty Meister spotted people dressed as Ku Klux Klan members on Saturday night on Anthony Drive in Lahoma and called authorities at approximately 10:20 p.m., Enid News reported. She said she also saw a burning cross.

Cary Sharp, the husband of Mayor Theresa Sharp, said he and his friends dressed in the robes because they believed the prank would be funny.

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Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/okla-mayor-husband-dresses-kkk-member-halloween-article-1.2420665

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HassleCat

(6,409 posts)
1. Keep it at home
Mon Nov 2, 2015, 02:37 PM
Nov 2015

That kind of stuff upsets people. I have a photo, taken at a Halloween party, of Jesus, Charles Darwin and Hitler having a conversation in our kitchen. Some people were very offended because Jesus had nails through his hands. Of course, some people took offense at Hitler, because Hitler. As far as I know, Darwin got a pass. And that was just a party in a private home. If you take that stuff out in public, there's going to be trouble, and I don't know why the mayor's husband would fail to recognize that.

Laffy Kat

(16,386 posts)
2. I find it curious they just "happened" to have those costumes..
Mon Nov 2, 2015, 02:39 PM
Nov 2015

On the ready. There is more to this IMO.

jpak

(41,759 posts)
3. In the article, one Bubba sez someone done "brung up" the idea while drankin' beer
Mon Nov 2, 2015, 02:45 PM
Nov 2015

Sounds like typical dumbmasses

 

Darb

(2,807 posts)
4. Don't feed the animals. They want you to over-react.
Mon Nov 2, 2015, 02:51 PM
Nov 2015

Just paste their pictures (and identities if possible) on facebook, twitter, etc. and move on. They will lose in the end.

dembotoz

(16,839 posts)
7. and yesterday there was a post about some poor soldier who dressed as a suicide bomber
Mon Nov 2, 2015, 03:58 PM
Nov 2015

his base was not happy.....

maybe the required drink for halloween should be fanta orange soda or a hires root beer

 

BlueJazz

(25,348 posts)
10. Wonder if they think it would be funny if next halloween 50,000 black Men dressed up as...
Mon Nov 2, 2015, 05:07 PM
Nov 2015

...Black Panthers carrying weapons and riding through town ?? I kinda' doubt it..

 

jtuck004

(15,882 posts)
11. "...Oklahoma, every night my honey-lamb and I sit alone and talk, and watch a hawk making lazy
Mon Nov 2, 2015, 05:47 PM
Nov 2015

circles in the sky."

Guess they need to change that to the hawk lifting it's wings on the smoke from the burning crosses.

 

sulphurdunn

(6,891 posts)
14. Yea, rightwing humor
Mon Nov 2, 2015, 06:19 PM
Nov 2015

means laughing at shit that isn't remotely funny. They never laugh at themselves, which might be funny, but we'll never know.

Earth_First

(14,910 posts)
13. "Authorities said they didn't believe that crosses were being burned..."
Mon Nov 2, 2015, 06:03 PM
Nov 2015

"The crosses were reportedly held behind the fire to create the perception of them burning."

I don't buy it.

The crosses weren't burned because of the intervention that transpired before they were able to set them ablaze.

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