A photo essay from Mother Jones:
Coming from five generations of Ku Klux Klan members, 58-year-old “Ms. Ruth” sews hoods and robes for Klan members seven days a week, blessing each one when it’s done. A red satin outfit for an Exalted Cyclops, the head of a local chapter, costs about $140. She uses the earnings to help care for her 40-year-old quadriplegic daughter, “Lilbit,” who was injured in a car accident 10 years ago.
The pictures are intense and uncomfortable to look at, especially since they are “only fabric.” Image posting is disabled on the site, which is maybe just as well as I feel like a creep (to say the least) embedding pictures of KKK regalia. The pictures are technically SFW, but this might not be one for the public kiosk. Of course, it is (somewhat) reassuringly hilarious to think these awful awful human beings taking themselves seriously while referring to their leader as an “Exalted Cyclops.”
via buzzfeed
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