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Cracklin Charlie

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39. They're stored safely away in the cedar chest.

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Reply #4)

Mon Feb 4, 2019, 11:39 AM

Feb 2019

Likely to this very day.

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How did the man on Ralph Northam's yearbook page get his Klan outfit? [View all] DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2019 OP

A sheet, cardboard, and a pair of scissors. Soxfan58 Feb 2019 #1

It's a pretty elaborate costume Empowerer Feb 2019 #9

Doe this look like something one could put together on the fly? DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2019 #14

No. It's not a sheet they just threw on. It's a full-on Klan outfit. Empowerer Feb 2019 #19

There's a lot of detail. That's for sure. DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2019 #23

And they didn't don't go online to get it. They had to go through some effort. Empowerer Feb 2019 #24

No internet in 1984 either. DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2019 #25

When did mouth holes become a thing in Klan outfits? jberryhill Feb 2019 #33

It looks like a Klan outfit to me. DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2019 #36

So you don't have an answer to either question jberryhill Feb 2019 #38

I have testified under oath before. DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2019 #40

"How did the man on Ralph Northam's yearbook page get his Klan outfit?" jberryhill Feb 2019 #43

If I said I could vouch for its authenticity or provenance I would be lying. DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2019 #47

Okay, well perhaps there might be a way to figure out if it is a real Klan outfit jberryhill Feb 2019 #57

Is there official Klan regalia that is de rigueur for anybody who dons one? DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2019 #58

Your question assumes there is jberryhill Feb 2019 #60

At the risk of an appeal to popularity fallacy DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2019 #61

Do you think one of the people in the photograph is black? jberryhill Feb 2019 #62

That so grossly DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2019 #63

Was this a sincere question: jberryhill Feb 2019 #70

Nowhere DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2019 #73

"What I did suggest is perhaps he borrowed it from an actual member." jberryhill Feb 2019 #75

Believing DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2019 #77

That it is offensive is not subject to debate, nor the point of the OP jberryhill Feb 2019 #79

Nowhere DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2019 #81

Lol jberryhill Feb 2019 #84

That catalog is from 1925. DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2019 #85

I am sorry you find Google difficult to use jberryhill Feb 2019 #87

For the sake of discussion let's say it isn't an official Klan outfit DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2019 #88

Okay, for the sake of discussion, may I ask you to read what I have written? jberryhill Feb 2019 #89

All this obscurantism about whether or not the outfit is official obfuscates... DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2019 #92

Okay, then what was the point of the OP? jberryhill Feb 2019 #93

I'm not sure where you are going with this or why mcar Feb 2019 #71

I'm seeking to answer the question which is the subject line of the OP jberryhill Feb 2019 #72

OP is asking how the weather got the uniform mcar Feb 2019 #74

So the question is unanswerable, I guess jberryhill Feb 2019 #76

Do you really believe you have established DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2019 #78

No, and it is clear that you have an emotional attachment to an answer jberryhill Feb 2019 #80

i think it is white make up on the face. mopinko Feb 2019 #46

Authentic. Cracklin Charlie Feb 2019 #34

Even if he weren't in blackface, kind of hard to explain why he's posing with a Klansman Empowerer Feb 2019 #35

Why do you think his friends called him that name? Cracklin Charlie Feb 2019 #37

I lived in FL from 1970-2012. DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2019 #42

It looks like a plain white robe. Mariana Feb 2019 #49

Or pissed off his mom by cutting eyeholes in a perfectly good pillow case? marble falls Feb 2019 #2

Sewing/Crafts 101 TheCowsCameHome Feb 2019 #3

I picture some older man or woman in a cabin in the woods knitting them. DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2019 #4

They're stored safely away in the cedar chest. Cracklin Charlie Feb 2019 #39

YGBFKM LongtimeAZDem Feb 2019 #5

I admit to my ignorance on the subject as I never thought of wearing one. DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2019 #7

Good question. Rorey Feb 2019 #6

Res ipsa loqutur DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2019 #8

He had the gall to suggest it isn't him Rorey Feb 2019 #11

Arguing in the alternative let's say he made it himself. DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2019 #20

Given his height, I don't think there's a question about which one is him Rorey Feb 2019 #29

Northam is 6' tall Rorey Feb 2019 #13

Depends on whether they were in Spain during Holy Week jberryhill Feb 2019 #10

Northam should have said the man in blackface was a penitent and the man in the sheet was a priest. DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2019 #12

heh jberryhill Feb 2019 #15

As an attorney... DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2019 #17

Not much really jberryhill Feb 2019 #31

TY DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2019 #32

The problem for Northam is that he thought it was him at first. yardwork Feb 2019 #64

I never did any of this in the 50's, 60's 70's, 80's or to date. sprinkleeninow Feb 2019 #82

Exactly. I'm about the same age as Northam. yardwork Feb 2019 #90

Oh yeah... You can get them from Hobby Lobby. Why do you think the Supreme Court favored them? PeeJ52 Feb 2019 #16

Apparently you can buy custom jobs for anywhere from 100 to 150 bucks depending on mats. Decoy of Fenris Feb 2019 #18

I'm glad the most I ever did for Halloween was put on a cowboy hat. DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2019 #26

I never did Halloween myself. Can't understand the appeal, but to each their own. n/t Decoy of Fenris Feb 2019 #28

I liked being a drum majorette. Mom put a Quaker Oatmeal container sprinkleeninow Feb 2019 #86

Why, he sewed it himself! : ret5hd Feb 2019 #21

It's too pointy, skinny, and long, and has no badges Polybius Feb 2019 #22

We can agree DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2019 #27

Absolutely Polybius Feb 2019 #103

there are plenty of women, and a few men, who could stitch that up overnight rampartc Feb 2019 #30

It looks like a choir robe, ripped off from a church. Mariana Feb 2019 #41

Baptismal robe jberryhill Feb 2019 #45

Probably the original source of the actual klan robes. yardwork Feb 2019 #65

That could very well be Mariana Feb 2019 #94

Capirotes jberryhill Feb 2019 #96

I wonder how that got to the American South in the late 1900s. yardwork Feb 2019 #98

Birth of a Nation jberryhill Feb 2019 #99

I am not sure d_r Feb 2019 #44

Who says it is a man and not a date? Sneederbunk Feb 2019 #48

It could be a man and his male date made up in black face and dressed as a Klansman. DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2019 #51

The Klan exists in the South. I saw them out on street corners in Georgia, 1985. Nt lostnfound Feb 2019 #50

Lived in Fl from 70-012. Never saw one except on tv. DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2019 #52

I never saw them in Florida, either. But turned a corner in Georgia... lostnfound Feb 2019 #54

I was pretty politically aware for a kid. DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2019 #56

They're not just in the south. cwydro Feb 2019 #59

You have no idea whether you saw a Klansman. Mariana Feb 2019 #67

What DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2019 #69

They never went away. Out in public then, out in public now. yardwork Feb 2019 #66

I saw the KKK bookstore in Pasadena Texas in 1979 Gothmog Feb 2019 #53

What is this dark magic of costumery JCMach1 Feb 2019 #55

Good question. It sure doesn't look homemade. At least not made in the home of someone who doesn't EffieBlack Feb 2019 #68

Virginia, mid 80s? Mr. Quackers Feb 2019 #83

I doubt it. Mariana Feb 2019 #95

How did the actual Klansmen get their outfits through the ages? JustABozoOnThisBus Feb 2019 #91

Klanazon Dot Com.... jberryhill Feb 2019 #97

You are very very invested in this. Why? Hekate Feb 2019 #100

History matters. Knowledge matters. Facts matter jberryhill Feb 2019 #102

Are you ready for it? TwistOneUp Feb 2019 #101