This really isn’t very complicated, high school students of America:
Do your best not to spell out really racist words at a class event and never the sport the kind of attire made famous by the country’s most infamous hate group.
Unfortunately, seven boys at Mound Westonka High School in Minnesota were unable to abide by this second recommendation last Wednesday, as they donned garb for a dodgeball match that looked an awful lot like the sort of thing worn by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
This may not have been their intention… but just take a look at the shirts and white bandanas being worn in the photos above and below.
“I turned around, and the team behind me looked like they came in with a Ku Klux Klan uniform, or an interpretation of it,” senior Ryan Anderson told WCCO, the local CBS affiliate.
“It was something to say the least.”
The event was supervised by teachers and administrators, none of whom took any action during the game.
But the district then received complaints after images were shared on social media.
“Anybody who is well-versed in history can know that anyone with a pointed white hat is trying to symbolize the KKK,” a parent who asked to remain anonymous told KMSP.
“There are not a lot of other organizations that can be confused with.”
We’d have to agree.
The district says that “appropriate action will be taken in accordance with district policy” if its investigation turns up anything worthy of punishment.
For whatever it may be worth, the school’s population is 93 percent white, 3 percent Hispanic, 2 percent African-American and 2 percent Asian, according to The Washington Post.
