“The little missus was away at a Tupperware convention, so I had to do my own laundry,” Klansman Arnie Stevens told reporters outside his house in Pigeon Hole, Oklahoma. “But I’m not used to washing clothes, and they say this has happened because I didn’t separate my whites from my coloureds. A Cincinnati Reds tee-shirt must have gotten into the wash, that’s why my robe turned pink. This just goes to show that segregation is the way of the Lord. In laundry and also in life.”



Stevens was speaking after trying to attend a Ku Klux Klan rally, dressed in a pink hood and pink robe, and being ordered to leave. “I only have one robe and hood, so I had to wear them. But the others told me to go home immediately, because they said pink made me look like a faggot. Unfortunately, my fellow Klansmen judged me solely on the colour of my robe. But I can’t help what colour my robe is, can I? It’s what’s inside that counts.”



Maryland Live Journal - 27/5/04