Mother supports son’s decision to wear KKK Halloween costume

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The competition for the most racially insensitive and controversial Halloween costume heated up over the weekend as a Virginia mother defended her son’s decision to wear a white robe and hood in the style of a members of the Ku Klux Klan.

First we saw the comparatively innocuous blackface “Crazy Eyes” costume from actress Julianne Hough and the repellent Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman duo costume, and now a seven year old named Jackson Black insists his Klansman costume was “cool,” in an interview with local station WHSV.

The boy’s mother, Jessica Black, said she warned her son he could face ridicule for wearing the costume.

“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.

She said her son asked her to make the costume for him after he watched the movie “Fried Green Tomatoes,” which features at least one prominent Klansman character. While that character is a villian in the film, the boy’s mother doesn’t seem to share that take on the KKK.

“It’s supposed to be white with white. Black with black. Man with woman and all of that,” Black said of the KKK during her interview. ”That’s what the KKK stands for. The KKK every year, raises money to donate to the St. Jude’s.”

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