Puh-leez. Are people intentionally hyper-sensitive or what?
The owners of Ice Cream Family Corner and Sandwiches at the busy intersection of South Pine Avenue and Southwest 17th Street say their two-month-old business is getting creamed because passers-by have mistaken their white-hooded ice cream cone mascot for a KKK protester.
Did the Klan let blacks and Latinos wear waffle-patterned sheets with sprinkles?
They should make a chocolate ice cream cone, then permit the vanilla and chocolate supremacists to fight until they melt. Oh, and the chocolate ice cream should have almonds, and fudge, because, as everyone knows, burnt almond fudge ice cream is superior.
That’s all. Problem solved.
Those look like the robes worn by the West Hollywood branch of the Klan.
The Tea Party has resurrected the Klan as pointed sweetness in a waffle cone. They’re coming to take you away; ha,ha. To Sharpton’s Plantation farm; ha, ha. The Tea Party’s luring you with ice cream into their nets; ha,ha. They’re coming to take you away; ha, ha.
Where’s all the white bon-bon’s at?
All hail the vanilla waffle cone with sprinkles!
I’m sorry…how in the hell could you mistake that for a clansman? His arms are uncovered!!! So even from his back you couldn’t say that. Can’t fix stupid.
That picture is still funny though. It takes a very dedicated businessman to put that on!
That sounds like something a buddy and me would see and make the lame joke and then go on with our lives.
I mean come on, we see so many examples of Klan outfits that they shouldn’t be hard to miss. For one they don’t have sprinkles, waffle colored pants, face or arm holes and aren’t generally worn by Hispanic men. Also they don’t usually have signs advertising ice cream.
http://youtu.be/493pL_Vbtnc
Just when I thought I’d seen everything . . . .
Well, there’s only one solution: eliminate all flavors of ice cream, call in Jackson & Sharpton, and require diversity among the different colors and flavors. There will be no more chocolate & vanilla. The only flavor that can exist now: choco-nilla.
tv is right: it takes a brave soul to don that silly outfit! Bless his lil’ ice-cream lovin’ heart!
What is truly disturbing about this story is it points out how irrational and borderline insane many people are. This quote from the article: “an employee at the bank where she does business told her a co-worker was so frightened by the white dollop patrolling the street corner that she called her husband crying and refused to drive through the intersection.”
Okay, let’s ignore the obvious stupidity of not noticing that this was an ice cream cone, that the guy wearing the costume was not white and that you could clearly see his face (I thought the purpose of the robe was to hide the person’s face and identity). Let’s forget all that and say it really was a Klansman standing on the street corner holding a sign. Just what the heck did this woman think he was going to do to her?! Rip her out of her car? She sees what to her has become the bogeyman and she is incapacitated by her fear. All it takes is seeing a man in a costume and she is nonfunctional, at least for a short while.
But she is not alone. I run into this kind of irrationality all the time. Just read some of the insane conspiracy theories people spread on the internet. Or some of the idiotic urban myths that get told as true stories.
Human beings really haven’t evolved as much as we would like to believe.
Supremacists travel in packs or in mobs; or individually under cover of darkness; unless they are tolerated by the media or “rights” businesses. The KKK and similar white supremacist groups are not tolerated and I cannot recall an incident in recent history where one of their members has traveled alone.
and if it was chocolate ice cream, it’d also be racist.