Easter Rituals Unlikely to Be Imported to the USA Anytime Soon

FWIW, the tradition goes back to the Middle Ages and has nothing to do with the KKK.

Posted by Fausta at March 25, 2013 11:03 AM

I know. I know.

Posted by vanderleun at March 25, 2013 11:43 AM

WE know, but the products of American misejimacation dating back at least three decades DO NOT know.

My favorite Klan picture is the one of Margaret Sanger, that great "liberator" of women, giving a eugenics lecture to some state's Klan's Ladies' Auxiliary.

Posted by Don Rodrigo at March 25, 2013 12:48 PM

The most jarring thing I ever did saw was a photograph in the Shawnee Mission Historical Society of my grandparents in full klan regalia at a Klan picnic. Smiles all around. I think they were enjoying some lovely fried chicken and watermelon.

Posted by Jewel at March 25, 2013 2:57 PM

"Why Rex! I thought I told you always to wash after supper!"

Posted by Donald Sensing at March 25, 2013 6:07 PM