Fans Wear KKK Hoods To High School Hockey Game
A photo of fans wearing KKK hoods during a high school hockey game in North Dakota, caused outrage and sparked an investigation by school officials this weekend.
The incident occurred Friday night during a state hockey semifinal game held at Ralph Engelstad Arena. Three students from Red River High School were seen sitting together in the crowd wearing what appeared to be Ku Klux Klan-style white robes and hoods.
The Associated Press writes that 19-year-old Shane Schuster was attending the game when he noticed the offensive regalia and captured it with his camera phone.
The resulting photo kicked up a firestorm of controversy after Schuster posted it to his Twitter account. Schuster described his reaction to the students’ wardrobe:
“I thought, ‘Are those KKK hoods?’ I couldn’t believe it. I was shocked.”
The three fans wearing the KKK hoods were seated in the Red River High School student section. The offending outfits were almost lost among the crowd as fellow students participated in a traditional “whiteout” by donning primarily white clothing and white face paint.
Inforum reports that a subsequent investigation by school officials identified the three students.
It was concluded that they did not enter the arena wearing the KKK garb, but changed into the clothing following the first goal of the game. The students reportedly removed the garb between 30 and 60 seconds later.
Red River High School principal Kristopher Arason explained:
“The students removed the attire after students around them told them how offensive their attire was.”
Arason has stated that “appropriate action is being taken” against the students involved and their parents have been contacted by school officials. He expressed the school’s regret at the incident:
“We, as a school, are extremely disappointed with the behavior of these three students. This behavior is not a representation of our school or student body.”

What do you think about three fans wearing KKK type hoods and robes to a high school hockey game?













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Feb 24, 2013
-___- Really?
Feb 24, 2013
Send them to Fargo.
Feb 24, 2013
I know right! That's what happens when White people are allowed to raise children. SMH!
Feb 24, 2013
I don't really see what the big deal is to be honest. Yes it's offensive, but unless there is a specific dress code the students were asked to attend to, this is more a problem with freedom of expression.
Feb 24, 2013
who cares
Feb 24, 2013
Yes that is very offensive… and they should be taught a lesson!!!
Feb 24, 2013
Damn Straight, MARCUS
Feb 24, 2013
THERE A LOT OF US THAT DO CARE, FOOL
Feb 24, 2013
Look's everyone did the right thing, except for the 3 students. The three kids probably thought they were being funny. Kids do stupid shit all the time. I think they will learn from their antics. Hopefully their dads will kick them in the ass, then educate them on the horrific acts that the KKK has perpetrated in the past.
Feb 24, 2013
And there seems to be a lot of people who don't give a crap too.
Feb 24, 2013
Ahh somebody got the wittle feelings hurt, boo hoo.
Feb 24, 2013
take em out tie the to a post and whip them! That'll teach them heathens.
Feb 24, 2013
The big deal of it is sitting in the beginning of the second sentence of your statement with, "…yes it's offensive, but…". This translates as it's wrong but it's not wrong. In our increasingly litigious society it's like we no longer care for social mores & common sense & decency. We look for an ordinance – otherwise it's a-okay. It being offensive should be a good enough reason for it to be a big deal. Why even invoke the Bill of Rights beyond that point?
Feb 24, 2013
hahahaha…well I guess that sends a clear message!
Feb 24, 2013
It's not funny.Stupid and immature.Why would they want to wear something like that.
Feb 24, 2013
I do not see what the big deal is. people may see it offensive however other people may not like me. I could see if they were wearing actual KKK wardrobe i.e the patch but I do not see the big deal.
Feb 24, 2013
Unfortunately, people have the right to express themselves in any way they want to as long as it is not violent. If they decided to dress like this at a costume party or for Halloween not much would probably be made of this experience. Dress the way you want too kids! However, there may be consequences by doing so.
Feb 24, 2013
could it be termed "freedom of expression".
Feb 24, 2013
Three grownup sized people are wearing KKK costumes. The kids are simply wearing their school colors and makeup. Who are these THREE? I think it is a FALLSE FLAG event designed to stir up anger between races. IGNORE THEM!
Feb 24, 2013
Three grownup sized people are wearing KKK costumes. The kids are simply wearing their school colors and makeup. Who are these THREE? I think it is a FALSE FLAG event designed to stir up anger between races. IGNORE THEM!
Feb 24, 2013
Look closely at the pictures. There are 3 dummies wearing KKK outfits. The kids are wearing school colors ( white) and makeup(white). This is a false flag event designed to stir up trouble. IGNORE THEM!
Feb 24, 2013
FALSE FLAG! IGNORE IGNORE IGNORE.
Feb 24, 2013
Do the same thing they do in /germany if you wear Nazi clothes-throw em in jail.
Feb 24, 2013
I say not only do they have white hoods but they must have big balls! some one needs to educate these people!
Feb 24, 2013
"Dress Code?" This is about racial prejudice & hatred. If you don't see "the big deal," it's because you don't care or you're uneducated as to the level of hate for which the KKK stands.
Feb 24, 2013
We won't ever get pass all this hidden racism until we punish the people who has it hidden in their hearts….. but nothing will happen, they'll just say it was a prank or they lost a bet or something
Feb 24, 2013
Tori Falls offensive to some, but not illegal!
Feb 24, 2013
Mark Barkawitz negros love this crap, they are doing to themselves! It was slmost gone before "obama" started it up all over anew, and now they have what they arre asking for. They are either Americans or Africans, they chose!
Feb 24, 2013
If that was the case they would be handing out patches to everybody dummy
Feb 24, 2013
Try telling that to people who had family members hung from tree's for being Black Dumb ass comments
Feb 24, 2013
Damn right
Feb 24, 2013
What if those three folks are black under those hoods? Is that Still Racism? I'm offended that some of them coveredtheir face with paint and dyed their hair
yellow. It reeks of intolerance against Albinos.
Feb 24, 2013
I dare the people that say it's no big deal to walk through a black neighborhood and see if you'll make it out alive. How about I show up at the next game with a shirt saying 9/11 was no big deal.
Feb 24, 2013
Tori Falls–The Bill of Rights includes freedom of expression, even if that freedom is being expressed by morons. You know that freedom of expression doesn't include being harmful, such as yelling fire in a theater, but those kids dressing up like D-bags was ONLY offensive not harmful.
Feb 24, 2013
They took them off 30 to 50 seconds after they put them on when people around them complained.. Sounds to me like they thought it would be funny but it wasn't. So why do we have to make what seems to be a mistake made by school kids into such a big issue? I feel that a large amount of the problem in this day and time is fueled by the press. They are the first to play the Race Card and we buy into there plot for better ratings. The more they can get people to go back and forth with race driven comments the better they feel about there story. Do yourself a favor be who you are and try to treet every person you meet as if they were you brother regardless of the color of their skin. Don't buy into this type of article the comments I'm reading are I'm sure just what the writer wanted. The bigger the storm they stirr the better they feels about themself. God Bless you all and remember what is really important and it's not this article.
Feb 24, 2013
I guess its ok for the black panthers to walk around in their nonsense and preach their bs but these kids are worse?
Feb 24, 2013
Marcus racism is a thing we shouldn't be sensitive about. Laugh about it! What hidden racism are you talking about? Want to give minorities like you guys even more rights?
Feb 24, 2013
Here we go with that double standard Again. The first standard deals with.
something offensive against black people and is always declared to be.
just something minor. Then comes the second standard. Let's just say.
the students decided to wear something offensive to white people like.
a German uniform with a swastika. The reply would then be someone get a rope.
Feb 24, 2013
Offensive? Yes. Insensitive? Absolutely. Illegal. Not in the least. People are free to be offensive if they want to be. It's a FREE country people. This political correctness BS is beginning to turn into LAW. Is that what you want? MORE LAWS? Don't you want the freedom to like or dislike whatever you want? Well, it has to work both ways. I have no clue what these kids intentions are/were but it doesn't matter. Unless there was/is a dresscode, let them be as you would be left alone to do and feel as you are free to.
Feb 24, 2013
Roy Walker which are zero. now how about the millions of white victims of black criminals?
Feb 24, 2013
Finally! Someone Speaks the TRUTH! Thank you, Mr. Oliver.
Feb 24, 2013
Tori Falls your comment offends me. therefore,it's wrong and you need to stop commenting.
Feb 24, 2013
"what appeared to be Ku Klux Klan-style" Case closed. liberal media once again being racist and causing unrest.
Feb 24, 2013
When the last time the black panther blow up a church or hung someone because they happened to black or believe in civil rights? The three teen are just being jerks but you can not compare the black panther with the KKK.
Feb 24, 2013
another oppressed black person living in that awful ghetto Boca Raton. grow up
Feb 24, 2013
I attend an all Black university (PVAMU), I agree with Ampage and disagree with Tori. They have civil rights also, known as Freedom of Expression, though we may not agree with their views, we must allow them their right to express them. People wear shirts all the time with offensive messages, this is no different. I would hope they can not be punished for their actions, otherwise where do we draw the line? They were idiots, but do we deny idiots their rights, NO.
Feb 24, 2013
keep going on this path america and the weather is going to get worse and worse just like The Minister says this society is finished, good!
Feb 24, 2013
Um, since 1619? Still not even close to the number of Black victims of white crimes. Oh, and the majority of them got away with it. There was even photographed proof. They were displaying us hanging or burning like we were prized bass fish that they caught. Emmett Till ring a bell also?
Feb 24, 2013
Just more FYI for Al: Do the four little girls in the Alabama church bombing of 1963 ring another bell?
Feb 24, 2013
Al Clark go to the hood with your responses & see if they agree. You're an undercover racist as well. You look down on minorities.
Feb 24, 2013
If they feel it's ok to do this now, I wonder how they will act when they grow up. That concerns me more than anything. For everyone that thinks this is "not a big deal", just remember that one day they will be out in the real world with the mindset that this is alright.
Feb 24, 2013
Disturbing at the very least.
Feb 24, 2013
That's so stupid!!!! It's offensive bc the KKK is know for racism and hanging people etc. At what point is the world going to stop being so close minded. This is not ok
Feb 24, 2013
That's just it. It should be offensive to anyone not just black people. They also hate Jews, gays and other races so it has nothing to do with it's specifically being about black people.
Feb 24, 2013
Yes we should be offended by the German uniform. I'm not even white but that would offend me. It's what it represents!! Some people take the constitution to far sometimes to excuse their ignorance
Feb 24, 2013
That was their intent to make it appear so
Feb 24, 2013
It is ok to wear baggy paints and have a head of hair that looks like an old dirty mop and an odor loke an outhouse— but thin it is a BLACK thing!
Feb 24, 2013
I find walking around with a hod over your head inside and it seventy degrees with sun shades offensive as well as being stupid!
Feb 24, 2013
That type of so-called "freedon of expression" reverts to an era that was a disgrace to society. It promoted, hatred. I think that it was in extremely poor taste and should not have occurred.
Feb 24, 2013
these are the sons and daughters of bigota…they can get away with this foolishness in some lily white state like north dakota…they wouldnt pull this crap in Calif or other more 'progressive place'…..these kids are damned with the stain of racism….poor,pathetic souls!
Feb 24, 2013
You cannot 'beat' acceptance into people…these type of folk,live on Fox news,Doomsday Preppers and fear of the 'browning of the US'. They cant hide in lily white NDakota (previous Indian land) ..if they dont like it here in the US ,THEY canleave….but to where? the signs of racism are dying out and there is no where for them to go..there is no 'white only' country…..they are tainted and disease ridden vestiges of a past time and if they dont wake upand learn no tto play this silly game,,,KARMA will knock them flat….there ARENT the days to be an open white bigot…not anymore
Feb 24, 2013
James Becker …that's a fantastic idea!
Feb 24, 2013
I completely agree with you, Noel!
Feb 24, 2013
The media makes a big deal about 3 knuckleheads at a basketball game hurting no one, but not a couple rapper/pimp/drug dealer thugs in Las Vegas killing innocent people and themselves.
Feb 24, 2013
and Jamie Foxx says on network it's cool to kill white people.
Feb 24, 2013
If you think the KKK only killed black people, please stop commenting now.
Feb 24, 2013
Public school grounds have separate laws as far as freedom of speech is concerned. Off campus, they can be as offensive as they want.
Feb 24, 2013
Exactly my thoughts.
Feb 24, 2013
let me get this right it is ok for the black panthers to put on there militant gear and stop white voters from voting in 2 elections.but let 3 high school kids put on a robe and hat at a hockey game and people are in a uproar? there is something really wrong in america today!
Feb 24, 2013
way to show the rest of the world the freedom the united states stands for
Feb 24, 2013
not as long as we have the black panthers blocking white voters from voting in presidential elections. that will keep racism alive!! people do not want to admit racism goes both ways !! i do not care about the color of skin i can honestly say i do not like humanity as it is today so i do not care if your black,white tan or poka dotted i hate everyone equally.
Feb 24, 2013
The wearing of the KKK costumes is a lot less disrespectful than what the racist knuckle draggers in the Congress practices on a daily basis toward the President of The United states who is paying the price for being Black in this country.
Feb 24, 2013
I'm reading these comments and it's funny how every time a Murder, Robber, anything Illegal involves the Caucasians "It's no big deal" " Get over it", there's never a hype or any hurtful words to say. Other race whether it's Asian , Spanish, Afro Americans etc.There's so much Negativity , so many hate words. Playing the race card? Ha… Then stop showing everyone the reason why…
Feb 24, 2013
There's nothing wrong with indulging in ones culture, the Klan has always worked to preserve the existence of the white people. Why is it the naaPCP, BET, scholarship funds, holidays, etc can be cherished by the black but when the whites do something we're deemed as evil racists? Even if the intentions by these kids was pro-Klan, there is nothing wrong with it. 83/311. >>>>In before FU, Evil racist, etc. etc.etc.
Feb 24, 2013
Yes, exactly Al Clark, the media are such mongers looking to fuel tensions. Yeah, that poor cab driver and passanger died because of the black rappers and their bullcrap violence. These kids didn't hurt anyone, but they make a big deal of it. B.S>
Feb 25, 2013
Germany does not have the problem with race like the sates they seem to judge people on there own merit and not there color like here in the states.
Feb 25, 2013
Al Clark they were at a hockey game, Al Clark's too stupid or lazy to read the article, probably both,
Feb 25, 2013
They no doubt come from racist families, there's no way these three boys sewed or bought these costumes on their own.
Feb 25, 2013
reminds me of the good ol days.
Feb 25, 2013
Take a look at the N. Dakota basketball team. For a state with very few neegears they ought to be ashamed.
Feb 25, 2013
peterherrera01 ,only as far as the students go. Parents or paying spectators are not bound by the draconian rules. These KKK costumes or even the KKK is no more offensive than say the NAACP, or the JDL (Jewish Defense League), or even the Hispanic Cacus. It is a group, that in the lack of criminal actions, has every right to exist under the Constitution.
I myself find it amusing, because of the stir it made. That seems to be the intent of the people.
Feb 25, 2013
To get a reaction. And did they ever. Of course, no student identified, that would violate their "rights". But the public reacts. And the comments about the German uniforms, I know many Germans in their army, and they wear uniforms, could you be talking about the NeoNazi movement and their wearing of the SS uniforms? Or are you a hater of German army soldiers. One of the few countries that supports American ideals. Even after we beat them twice. But even over there, they have racists.
Feb 25, 2013
Kristine Ilochi , the bombing of the Alabama church was done by a man, who belonged to the KKK, not done by the KKK itself. There is a difference. Just as the rouge cop in Los Angles was black, but I do not judge all blacks by his actions. Nor do I judge white actions by the few extremist groups. There were white supporters of equal rights back in the sixties, not all was done by blacks. All people are entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Backed up by our Constitution, and its Bill of Rights.
Feb 25, 2013
People are so thinned skinned. Racism is the belief that one race is better than another. Who here hasn't thoguht that?
Feb 25, 2013
But it's ok for other races to "Prank" right Marcus?
Feb 25, 2013
peterherrera01 Since when?
Feb 25, 2013
let me see, the white libs and blacks are offended by kids wearing white KKK outfits but not by black burka Jihadis. Oh, the selective outrage of silly Americans.
Feb 25, 2013
I'm just glad this didn't happen in the South. We get blamed for all the racism. I don't like the KKK, the NRA, and the GOP.
Mar 2, 2013
a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to rule others.
Mar 2, 2013
do fit the description of a black america? oh ikay.
Mar 3, 2013
*American
Mar 3, 2013
What the heck are you talking about
Mar 5, 2013
Yet u make comment on our prez being monkey you racist pig. I hope the plastic cups at McDs does the job that I want to.
Mar 5, 2013
Hes a racist old bastard. Croke already pig.