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Meet the Ku Klux Klan's seamstress of hate couture.

Coming from five generations of Mississippi 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.


Photo essay about Ms. Ruth by New York photojournalist Anthony Karen, a former Marine who has spent several years photographing members of the Ku Klux Klan. The essay includes audio of interviews with Karen and Ms. Ruth.
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9 responses // Aryan Outfitters

  • wow, that crazy. Very interesting how hate profits. Anthony Karen must live a crazy life getting to see into people's life like that. I respect photographers like that. Showing the world things that they would not have over
    wise.
    CrazyDave
  • Cool story but I didn't get a good look at Ms. Ruth?? Is she not proud of her life's work? Secondly, why are they still hiding the robe. Shouldn't they be more proud of the truth they have found? Still, it is interesting and informative. The secrecy is always a nagging question for me.
    TDubs
  • it loks like they have a child in that outfit its sad that people are passing hate to kids.
    Da_Cod
  • omg!its hard enogh to taech chlidern to treet others how u want 2 b treeted with the way the wrold is 2day and then u c somethang like this and c its not the childs falt its the people around them it just makes me feel so sick!!!i work at a daycare w all races and backgrounds i think id cry if i had 2 deal w somethang like this .
    kalaflower
  • Creepy.
    ILiveonaClock
  • everyone has their entitled opinion however a child should be allowed to choose for themselves once they are of age. this just continues the "idiocracy" of the nation we live in
    diode
  • Maybe we should take their kids away from them.
    cheche_201
  • cheche_201, not a clever solution. That would not hold up in court. i understand what you are saying but on some level it is not right.
    Raven7
  • and trust me i want them to pay for damaging that childs view of the world but it wouldnt be right to take the kid away
    Raven7

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