White Kid Wears KKK Costume To School As An Assignment… With Teacher’s Approval

By Montana Couser, TheRoot.com

A student tweeted this photo of a classmate who wore a Ku Klux Klan costume for a class project. Screenshot: CNN

For most kids, when they get the option to choose a historical figure for a history project, they choose people like Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, or Barack Obama.

This freshman in high school decided to choose former KKK leader Hiram Wesley Evans as his “historical figure.”

With his teacher’s approval, the unidentified student was able to wear the infamous white hooded outfit to school. The student body of Harbor Teacher Preparation Academy in Wilmington, Calif., is 96% minority and it came as a surprise to many of the students when they saw the boy outside of his history class.

“It kind of rattled me. It was hard to believe that [the teacher – who was also unidentified] would allow a Klansman to walk around from her approval. So, we asked her, and she … compared the Klan to the Black Panther Party, which in my opinion are two different things,” rising senior Trinity Young said…

Evans in Washington, D.C., on August 8, 1925

A district spokeswoman from The Los Angeles Unified School District said that the incident is being investigated and also called the costume “insensitive and highly inappropriate.”

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