It's time to dust off your "Zero Days Since Oklahoma Was A National Embarrassment" graphic.
In case you missed it, Larry Long, a beloved, recently retired agriculture teacher from Elk City (pictured to the far right), was honored at a conference in Oklahoma City for 49 years of service last week. He celebrated the occasion like any good rural Okie would – by presenting a black teacher with a white robe and Confederate flag.
Via NewsOK.com:
A retired agriculture teacher from Elk City presented a black teacher with a white robe and Confederate flag at a state CareerTech conference in Oklahoma City last week, an incident that has drawn rebuke from lawmakers and an investigation by the state agency overseeing Oklahoma's CareerTech program.
The incident took place during the annual Oklahoma Career and Technology Education Summer Conference at the Cox Convention Center on Aug. 2.
Larry Long was being recognized for nearly 49 years of agriculture teaching during one of the conference's sessions. Long called a black colleague to join him upfront and presented him with the robe and flag.
Several people with knowledge of the situation said it appeared Long knew the black teacher and presented the robe and flag in an attempt to make a joke.
LULZ! I don't care if you're a politically correct liberal or a racist Trump supporter, that's some funny stuff! According to a Mole, the joke started by Long saying that he heard the teacher had applied for the KKK and was rejected, and got him the robe and flag to comfort him. I'm sure the crowd was roaring in laughter at that point, and not just sitting there in stunned, uncomfortable silence, hoping and praying that they weren't being recorded on camera.