Outrage on Halloween

Are you from Peterborough by any chance because this is the same thing that happened in town at a party on main street. I didn't find it funny and think they should be punished in some way or form for the public display of racism.

but could it have been like a scarey thing? i mean, some dress up as the grim reaper and freddy kuger, etc. for scare tactic. perhaps it was a statment on how scarey and horrible the practice was. you know mw. im always trying for the benefit of doubt. in any case now if they thought it was funny, thats a different story. but Halloween is for scarey stuff you know and if the kkk wasnt a terribley scarey thing i dont know what was. are they still out there?

Maybe it was just some Tea Party members letting their hair down after the rigors of electioneering. haha Bad taste granted, but not so bad as to bring in the police, surely. It was fancy dress after all.

Down in our southern states, I would think this would happen, but Canada? Did those idiots come from our South? Maybe the police can deport them back. I also can't believe that any judges would reward symbols of hatred. This is certainly shocking.

Well that is really, really tacky, but I don't think there are any laws against really bad taste. They are lucky that they did not get in to some sort of fight over these costumes. I am surprised they won the contest as well. If they had run in to some people that would be really offended by such things there could have been a whole lot of trouble for them.

Truly outrages but no crime is committed so the police can't do anything.

That's pretty disrespect full and shows a strange sense of humour or at least I hope that's the case. I don't really see what's going to happen to them unless they find out that they're well, racist. How the heck right minded people would award them the winner of a fancy dress costume party I don't know. It's like when prince harry over here dressed up as Nazi and at first it appeared he was going to get away with it but then after public out cry he was made to apologize and I believe he did some community service too. (probably was nothing more than lifting a pencil) ~Joey

Hi cher, I agree that this an outrage and I know a lot of people are upset. I never expected something like this to happen in Canada and I hope are charged. I'd like to see those who awarded the prize charged too. Blessings.

Hi cher! I think that this is beyond disgusting and an outrage! I don't think that it is one bit funny and don't see how anyone could condone this, let alone give them a "prize" for something so horrible! I hope that these 2 are punished and taught the severity of what they did and realize that it wasn't a joke. They are lucky that no one beat the crap out of them for wearing such inappropriate costumes!

Wow, I'm very offended by those people.

That's craziness!!! Oh, those darn small towns... I can't believe anyone would ever find that FUNNY or think that would be a good costume - oh boy. And to think that they won a contest for it? Aw man. What is the world coming to?! It sucks that they didn't end up getting beat up or anything - because I know that in my city, if anyone dressed up as a KKK member, they would rightfully get their butt kicked by all kinds of different people - white, brown, green, yellow - everyone who's not a racist slob would find offense to this. SIGH. I hope the police can charge them with something too - although sadly, that's what "free speech" and that whole amendement is for. You'll have to let us know how this plays out.

I'd like to know what their point was! Certainly these people weren't making a loud statement that they want to be in our dark ages! After all we know this time in history was fed by greed and fear! We can even see the repercussions of those days in the way the decedents of slavery act! Ignorance feeds and is attracted to ignorance!

what the hell!

But, is not the whole Halloween thing kind of sick? I mean: ghosts, vampires, witches, werewolves, devils, demons, and so on?

I agree that goes to far I don't see how they could win I thought people would want to put a end to things like this and thats not really in the halloween theme.

Hi. cher913. This is outrageous!! It truly is. They would never have been picked as winners in my contest. They can forget about that! I am not trying to prejudge anyone, but it looks like, these people may be racists themselves. How can anyone choose these people dressed as this. They would have never been invited to my party dressed up like this at all. The Ontario police should place both of these people in jail.

I think it's kind of amusing and at the same time disgusting. But perhaps I should explain. I grew up as 1 out of maybe 4 or 5 black people at my high school, out of about 700 people so, needless to say, it was basically a white town. I was joking around with one of my friends one day and his family is Jewish and I said I hated him and he accused me of being a Nazi, which one of my other friends thought was funny considering they were all for white supremacy. So the leading joke was that I was a white supremacist. So I could definitely have seen myself dressing up as a KKK member at some point if I had really ever felt the need to dress up for Halloween in high school. But, it would have been done as a joke in an innocent environment and (clearly) I'm not racist against myself. That would be some interesting self-hate, though. How would you explain that to a therapist? Lol. But, at the same time, having two people join up to be a KKK member and a lynched black man is just sick. A KKK member on its own is on the line, but I think that adding the other is just going too far. It's a touchy subject, especially since the KKK is indeed still active and it's not like there haven't been people lynched in the near past.

I think that there are a lot of things that aren't acceptible to be done in this day and age and I really think that this is one of those things. I personally would be completely devestated that there were people that thought that a Halloween costume like this would be acceptible at all. That said, I would hope that there would be charges pressed against the people that thought something like that was acceptible.

I know it was Halloween, but there should also be a line with taste an the choice of costumes. And I know that people make and have fun during this time, but they shouldn't take something as sensitive as this lightly. Although it's long ago, but it is still considered as recent history. I hope that by bringing this to light, people take notice and be more careful with their choices.