Ma'am, do you know how fast you were going, and by the way, what are you doing to preserve the white race?

Has everyone heard about Robert Henderson, the Nebraska State Trooper who joined the KKK and has also been posting white supremacist garbage on another hate group's website (the "Knights Party")? Nebraska tried to fire him, but it's always a dicey thing when you try to get rid of someone for their associations, no matter how heinous they may be (unless of course you happen to be Arabic or Muslim in general), and eventually an arbitrator and then a judge agreed that Henderson should be reinstated with back pay.

Arguing on his behalf, his defense attorney claimed it wasn't really a big deal:

Valentino said Henderson has resigned his Knights Party membership and apologized to the State Patrol commander, Col. Bryan Tuma. The attorney also said Bruning and Tuma blew Henderson's membership and activities out of proportion.
"Bob Henderson wasn't running around in a sheet and hood," he said.

OK. Obviously this guy is unfamiliar with the Public Enemy lyric from Apocalypse 91: "These days you can't see who's in cahoots/Cause now the KKK wears three-piece suits." After all, in today's Klan, you don't have to invest in a sharp 400-thread count bedsheet and go to the trouble of assembling your own robe from the Butterick "racist heritage collection"*; you can come as you are:



By the way I took this photo from an excellent if stomach-churning display of contemporary KKK photos from the Generation KKK project. Stories like Henderson's and projects like Generation KKK serve as good reminders that we are not out of the racist shithead woods yet, although the trees are thinning. Someday, maybe, someday.

*before anyone sues me, Butterick doesn't actually have a "racist heritage collection." I made it up.