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(4,292 posts)I remember there was a movie (some time in the seventies, I think) about a town in the Old West where a heroic Black man dressed up in a Ku Klux Klan outfit to infiltrate a Ku Klux Klan rally. Did the 24 year old Northam perhaps just think he was heaping scorn on the KKK by dressing as this character, or as another character, in that movie? I don't think it was funny, and I would never have done it. I grew up as one of a minority of non-Jews in a mostly Jewish neighborhood where some of our Jewish friends had lost relatives in those death camps, and the similarity between the KKK and Nazis was very real to most of us. Besides, my mother had a book that detailed how American KKK and Nazis had helped to finance the rise to power of the German Nazis. I am remembering that Prince Harry of England went to a costume ball dressed as a Nazi, when he was very young. And he said he had meant to make fun of the Nazis, and that he hated Nazis, and he just hadn't realized how it would feel to people who had been victimized by them. And he does seem to have been telling the truth, based on both prior and subsequent behavior. So my question would be, what was Northam doing and saying otherwise at that time? And what has he done and said since then? But yes, Northam really should have brought this to light, much sooner, with apologies and works of penitence.