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Kanye West sparks outrage with horrifying KKK post
Mar 9, 2025
Kanye 'Ye' West sparked outrage on Sunday morning with what might be his most offensive social media post to date - a snap of a Ku Klux Klan robe captioned: 'Outfit of the day.'
The distinctive white robe topped with a pointed hood was designed to conceal KKK members' identities and they were first made popular in D. W. Griffith's $100M-grossing 1915 film, The Birth of a Nation.
During the 1920s, the robes provided the main financing for the Protestant-led white supremacist, far-right hate organization - which amassed 8M members violently opposing Jews, Black people, Catholics, and Southern/Eastern European immigrants.
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) estimated that there were 'at least 29 separate, rival Klan groups currently active in the United States' as of 2017.
Over on X, the reaction was swift and horrified with user @S2M0NEY tweeting: 'Ku Klux Kanye.'
X user @Adventure_Nero posted a meme of Clayton Bigsby, the blind white supremacist character who doesn't realize he's African-American, that Dave Chappelle introduced on his Comedy Central series back in 2003.
'You're dressing as a ghost because your career is dead?' X user @AltcoinGordon scoffed.
X user @heisbiodun poked fun of the dirty door frame in the canceled 47-year-old's snap with the caption: 'Billionaire in dollars?'
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