The Heckler's article and its supposed target are crass. Not funny. Slavery is not satire. The Holocaust is not satire. Genocide is not satire. Murdering Sikh and Muslim Americans after 11 September is not satire. True, the KKK invovled and "affected" a small number of Americans but that is irrelevant. What is relevant is that these things are not in our past. They are our present.

There are some items in our history that are off limits. I'm NOT saying we can't talk about them. In fact, I don't think we talk about them enough. But running an article like that almost brings that sort of behavior (cross burning) into the mainstream public discourse. These acts should never even be hinted at in the public discourse unless it is to condemn and outlaw them.

This article did not condemn nor did it outlaw.

That something like this was written is bad enough, that a whole staff saw it and thought it was a good idea pretty much demonstrates the sort of fucked up bubble that is 3/4 of Northwest.

FYI, I'm black. I'm not offended by the stupidity and idiocracy of our past. I've witnessed prejudice/racism before and am myself a prejudiced individual. However, I don't react with widescale panic whenever I see and recognize something as offensive. You shouldn't do the same.

Take you own words into deep consideration- "Sometimes the smartest people - are the dumbest people..."

And to those who think there's nothing wrong with this situation...it's so easy to judge and say 'what's the big deal' when you are literally born into entitlement. There are things you will NEVER understand. There are situations you will never be put in, circumstances you will never have to go through. But the fact that you pass it off as everyone else being overly sensitive or dramatic - is what makes it worse.
When you live in a bubble and don't experience other aspects of life, it's easy to make uneducated perceptions. Life and the world are so much bigger than that. Sometimes the smartest people - are the dumbest people...........

Really, this has happened to you? To your parents? To your grandparents? The KKK, as much as they would like everyone to think, wasn't as far-reaching as we assume. At one point, its membership peeked in the 10s of millions, but that was before it became associated with the lynchings/murders that we now think of. And even those weren't as many as you would think. Don't get me wrong, one such action (kidnapping, torture, rape) is far too many, but we have people here making unfounded statements about what the Klan actually did.

Fear was the tactic they used the most and as much as they would like to have done wide-scale atrocities, they simply did not. They lost a lot of stem in the 1940s and 50s when a white journalist infiltrated their ranks and publicized the ludicrous nature of the organization.

We're giving more credit to these idiots than they deserve.

I'm multi-racial and this is just as part of my history as it is to anyone else. I don't great angry when I see this stuff. I'm saddened and hope deep down that it will not happen again.

I'm sorry, if any of you think humor is appropriate here you exist in a white cocoon which is shrinking year by year. As Rush Limbaugh found out when he attempted to become an NFL team owner, your level of insensitivity is no longer welcome in more and more of our nation.

The Heckler, if they are truly as nonracist as they claim, is in a position to make things better if they act quickly: Accept the truth about their actions and use their reach to educate others who are similarly blind.

No one is advocating for the Klan nor condoning its practices. It might be poor satire, but regardless, the image at least, is part of our history.

Really Ms. Brown? The article did all of that? Good luck in school. I hope your major is drama.