I think a better gambit would have been to claim they were dressing up like condemned prisoners, about to be carted to the hanging grounds.
Dumb ass college kids. They should have know better The Citadel or not.
The guy in the blue is a senior. He will not graduate and therefore, will probably be asked to return his class ring. They will surely find out who took the pictures and whose hand that is in the picture. Cadets will be asked and they punishment for lying is almost always worse than the punishment for the offense committed. The honor code prohibits lying and what they call quibbling. Theiy have a single punishment honor code there. Expulsion is the consequence of being found guilty by the honor court.
They’re watching on Snapchat.
Don’t you see the scripts the guys are holding? I assume they are doing a rehearsal.
My opinion is they came up with the “ghosts of Christmas past” story so they could dress up as Klansmen.
- It’s Christmas not Halloween. Who dresses up as a ghost for Christmas?
- Those don’t look like ghost costumes, which are generally full body sheets and don’t have pointed heads. Those look like KKK hoods.
Well, anyone putting on a production of A Christmas Carol, for one. There’s a old tradition of telling ghost stories on Christmas Eve, which is what Dickens was drawing on when he wrote that story in the first place.
Of course, it was primarily a British tradition, and more specifically a Victorian tradition, so I’m not sure how exculpatory that is for a bunch of millennials in South Carolina.
Given the Citadel’s history, it has done nothing to earn the benefit of the doubt.
That’s true - it’s a good way to teach cadets common sense, strength of principle and when to disobey stupid orders. These cadets failed.
Yes. Though traditionally, none of the Dickens ghosts look like Casper.
You realize that the Citadel suspended these guys instantly, removed them from campus pending investigation, may expel them? The president called the pictures “offensive and disturbing”?
Christmas Carol ghosts usually look like one of these. The only one commonly depicted as faceless is Yet To Come, who looks like Death, or a Ringwraith. That is, in black.
My point was that the Citadel cadets have long tradition of racism and bigotry, including using KKK imagery to intimidate a black student, so there is little reason to give their ghost explanation credence.
OK. “It” sounded like a reference to the institution itself. Without excusing anything in the past, it does seem like they’re doing the right thing here.
The Citadel incident reminded me of this vintage photo of a Klansman warning blacks not to vote, using typically classy imagery.
