Last Friday, The Daily Ardmoreite released the fall edition of Oklahoma Southern Living magazine. Featured on the front cover was a baby dressed in the hottest DIY Halloween Costume of 2016 – Futuristic Robot Klansman baby:
Inside the magazine you'll also find other Halloween-themed articles, like how to create a Confederate soldier uniform with thrift store items, 5 different ways to make your own homemade black face makeup, and how to carve the "Don't Tread On Me" snake into a Jack-O-Lantern.
Okay, I'm just joking around. You won't find any of those articles in Southern Oklahoma Living. At least I hope not. Also, the baby is not dressed up as a Futuristic Robot Klansman. In case it's not totally obvious, it's actually wearing a Tin Man costume. We know this thanks to KFOR Channel 4:
An Oklahoma magazine is stirring up controversy.
Inside Friday’s Daily Ardmoreite edition was this season’s Southern Oklahoma Living magazine.
When Gene Autry’s mayor, Kyle Lawson, saw the cover his jaw nearly dropped.
“My first initial reaction was I almost spit my coffee out when I first saw it,” Lawson said.
On the cover is a baby in a costume supposed to resemble the tin man.
“Just the way that the hood kind of goes up and the handle for the tin man's hat is kind of hidden behind the 'I',” Lawson said. “And just the way the flap comes down on the side it looks like one of the Klansmen baby outfits.”
Is it just me, or does the Gene Autry mayor know a little too much about KKK costumes. Also, they make Klansmen baby outfits? Is that something they sell at the Ardmore Walmart, or do you have to get them at Racists"R"Us?