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White Southerners Claim White Pointy Hoods Were for Fun Christmas Thing [View all]
By Ben Mathis-Lilley
... the Citadel has suspended eight cadets as it investigates the sheets-and-hoods incident, an initial statement by the school's president on the matter cited a potential explanation ...
... Preliminary reports are cadets were singing Christmas carols as part of a “Ghosts of Christmas Past” skit ...
... I'm going to .. assert .. as fact that .. these white students at a South Carolina military institution which officially displays the Confederate flag were probably not unaware of the historical-political symbolism involved in wearing pointy white hoods ...
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/12/11/citadel_kkk_costumes_school_says_it_was_a_christmas_carol_thing.html
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