Aryan Outfitters
Meet the KKK's seamstress of hate couture.
Sewing Table
Ms. Ruth is a 57-year-old tailor who lives in the Deep South. She makes ceremonial Ku Klux Klan robes and comes from five generations of the Klan. This is pre-cut cardboard outline for one of her Ku Klux Klan hoods.
Listen to the photographer introduce himself and his photo essay:
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Fascist Fashion
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu Dec. 3, 2009 10:19 PM PST.
How comforting to know that, as many of our fellow citizens struggle to get by on unemployment benefits and food stamps, this brain-addled hag is able to nourish her Faulknerian brood on the poisonous fruit of what is evidently a flourishing merchandising of brutal racism and bigotry.
The United States of America suffers from a festering sore in its nether regions. One wonders what sort of karmic justice will some day relieve us of this cancer. One is left speechless by the pathetic spectacle of Ms. Ruth "blessing" her handiwork before shipping it to her moonshine-guzzling customers...
Moonshine....
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed Dec. 9, 2009 8:42 AM PST.
@Anonymous, people in the South don't really drink moonshine so much any more, Bud Light more like.
Fear. Lack of education (a crime in our nation which was made great by the superior education our populace once received). Ignorance. Lack of travel. Lack of opportunity. Lack of connection to the rest of the world. Lack of interest in anything other than someone to blame for their pathetic empty lives, is what drives this movement. The more removed they become from the changing modern world the more they will rally in defense of their right to rule the same based on the only thing they have to hold to, their "superior" birth as whites in a nation now run by a black man.
The thing that most of our nation, most of the world, is afraid to say, is that this group is no different from any other religion. Yes, the KKK is a religious cult. They believe that God made white men to rule over the Earth and that we are each called upon by that God to do our part to protect what he gave to us from "them". You will be hard pressed to find a member of the Klan who is not a Christian. These people go to church. They pray. They teach their children their doctrine, just as Muslims, Jews and Christians of less noticeably dark sects do. But all religion is dark. It is all adherence to old, outmoded ways of thinking no longer relevant in a world of scientific fact. Religions are groups of people who set themselves apart from other groups of people by adherence to a system of beliefs they feel make them superior and more righteously deserving of "god's" love and protection. Never mind there is no evidence for any of it. That is the beauty of the whole set up, they have only to say it's true, and it is for them....
To Moonshine...
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu Feb. 11, 2010 11:10 AM PST.
Dr. King and the freedom struggle were based in the church. If it was not for the teachings of Jesus they would not have found their center, if it was not for the church where then would their meeting place be. Teachings of nonviolence were founded in faith and religion, Gandhi knew this, so did King. The KKK does not represent what all religions are no more than a watermelon represents what all melons are. Your statements against religions exclusivity are exclusive in and of themselves. No one is afraid of saying that the KKK is no different than any other religion because it simply is just not true.
Oh give me a break!!!!
Submitted by Kull (not verified) on Thu Dec. 10, 2009 6:25 AM PST.
HOW IN THE WORLD could you describe these inbred, shotgun-toting southerners as "Aryan" or "Fascist"?????
True, cultured, refined, European Aryan Fascists wore elegant HUGO BOSS uniforms not "boo-yah" Halloween costumes!!!!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v609/Brucemclachlan/SS_uniforms_5.jpg
Oh, and they had health care too!!!!
Come on, southerners are descendants of scottish and irish bumpkins!!!!
aryans and bumpkins
Submitted by Janet Camp (not verified) on Sat Feb. 13, 2010 4:56 PM PST.
I see what you are getting at; unfortunately, you make it in a rather racist way. And why all the shouting? All those exclamations are quite unnecessary. Any bumpkin knows that you only use one exclamation point. Any other emphasis needs to be made with further words. More than one ! is simply redundant and indicative of a poor grasp of the rules of the english language.
It's written in her face
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu Dec. 10, 2009 10:26 AM PST.
The legacy of hatred, passed from generation to generation, is etched into her scowling face. She's only 57. Very sad. Returning hatred to her and to those like her clearly doesn't end it. Is it ever possible to help such people to heal?
Sir, I am a Southerner...
Submitted by Rebekah (not verified) on Fri Dec. 11, 2009 12:45 AM PST.
and a descendent of Irish & Scottish blood, who whole-heartedly despises the culture of hate pictured here, AND your awful sweeping generalizations.
I am an atheist myself...but
Submitted by Cankles McCellulite (not verified) on Sat Dec. 12, 2009 7:17 AM PST.
I am an atheist myself...but more and more i am finding myself in debates with white supremacists who are also atheists...apparently more and more white nationalists are turning to atheism...which won't help the atheism position at all...to me it seems that religion alone can't be blamed for the atrocities and injustices in history...there have been some social organizations that were not religious but have caused terrible conditions...for instance Capitalism has caused suffering and victimization in many places on the planet....it seems to me the main problem lies with power and societys where power is lauded and revered and the pursuit of it is encouraged and the people who have it go unregulated by that society ...people still love that quote from Kissinger... "power is the ultimate aphrodisiac"
Also i am half southern half
Submitted by Cankles McCellulite (not verified) on Sat Dec. 12, 2009 7:47 AM PST.
Also i am half southern half yankee...(affectionately called a half breed by my southern kin)...southerners have many different roots from African to German and French (the term Dixieland comes from the french traders along the rivers who preffered to trade with a ten 'dollar' note which ten in french is Dix) also English, welsh..scottish, Scots- Irish (Ulster Scots) and lets not forget the Europeans inter-married for centuries with the southeastern American indians (specifically the 5 'civilized' tribes or nations) before the discovery of gold in the cherokee nation and the american business interest in it which caused the removal (the chief of the cherokee at that time was 7/8ths scottish.... in other words...mostly scottish but no less a cherokee)....so as you see 'kull' american history (which you seem to know nothing about) and it's people are not so clear cut...and in no way am i defending these KKK idiots only the many southerners in this country and on this site who are not idiots ...Now i would love to hear more about these designer facists and aryans you seem to love because every girl crazy bout' a sharp dressed Nazi.
I WAS going to say-1 Page of intelligent,
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed Feb. 10, 2010 10:47 PM PST.
well-thought out, non-biased comments--but....
OK, One page of MAINLY intelligent, empathetic comments...as compared to the last page of this photo essay with a comment by someone who was re-inventing the NAACP & BET...... ;)
Peace Ya'll and though I'm not a "Christian", I wish the Peace, Harmony & Bliss that comes with knowledge, a good and honest Life, and Meditation-especially for these poor ignorant haters in this story-mostly for their Children...
Miz Ruth
Submitted by Janet Camp (not verified) on Sat Feb. 13, 2010 4:51 PM PST.
I think it is Miz Ruth (not the PC Ms.)
It's not religion, per se, that drives these people, but when you combine the smaller sects that don't have a strong central leadership, with ignorance and fundamentalism, you get these cultish groups who are slavishly devoted to the "rightness" of their narrow beliefs.
Perhaps I am incredibly naive, but I was quite shocked to see this and find it deeply disturbing.
As an aside, I believe it is the people of Appalacia who are largely descended from the Scots-Irish people and they take great pride in that heritage. Having said that, it do think a lot of the southern plantations were built by Irish and Scots-Irish peoples who quickly accepted the slave system in order to amass their own personal wealth. Other nationalities certainly participated as well and to characterize all southerners as racist is certainly, well....somewhat racist.
Ms. Parasite
Submitted by Major Variola (ret) (not verified) on Sun Feb. 14, 2010 11:59 AM PST.
She is Miss Ruth because she can get more welfare being an unmarried
mother of a bedridden child. The resident baby-momma probably lives
on disability too, and their business is more a hobby.
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