Bar owner serves lifetime ban to man who showed up for costume party dressed in KKK hood and robe
Halloween is the perfect chance to dress up as something scary, like movie serial killer Michael Myers or a groaning zombie. Halloween is not the ideal time to dress up as pure evil, like Hitler, who committed a real genocide, or a member of the Ku Klux Klan, an organization that frequently lynched black Americans.
If you happen to have a perfect replica of a Nazi uniform or a KKK hood and robe laying around your house, you have some serious questions to answer.
One man in Picayune, Miss., was attending a costume party on Saturday at Mutt & BC’s Bar & Grill. His costume of choice was a KKK hood and robe accessorized with the Mississippi flag. Since Georgia adopted a new flag in 2003, Mississippi’s flag is the only U.S. state flag that still holds the Confederate battle flag’s saltire.
A photo of the costume, which Klan mythology suggests represents Confederate ghosts, was shared by Chance Delaney on Facebook. “And they say racism is dead,” he writes, “DISGUSTING.”
According to the Clarion Ledger, Bryan Carroll, co-owner of the bar, told the white man to remove the hood and gown and to leave his place of business. He also barred the man, who was not a regular customer, from returning to Mutt & BC’s in the future.
“We do not tolerate or condone racism at any level of our business, customers, or staff,” Carroll said. “Everyone is welcome and we do have all walks of life and all races that patronize our place.” He told the outlet that black customers were also present when the man in the KKK garb arrived.
The mayor of Picayune, Ed Pinero, is proud of Carroll’s reaction to the offensive costume. “The city of Picayune does not support any type of racist or derogatory actions, period, whether it’s true to life or a costume party,” he said. “It’s just unacceptable behavior.”
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