The Ku Klux Klan wasn’t always relegated to the shadows and everyone living in Alabama as they are today. Take a look at this big KKK Day Out in Colorado in the 1920s.

This photo is amazing. Not because it’s so odd to see the KKK just hanging around whimsically without a burning cross or black guy with an “Oh crap” look on his face, but because that looks like the least fun ferris wheel ride ever. Though I wonder if there are many photos like this of KKK members doing really out-of-character things like jumping on trampolines or enjoying Eddie Murphy’s Raw (or, rather, enjoying it without muttering racial epithets after every chuckle).

I think this is also pretty enlightening as to why the KKK lost its power. You’ve got to stay hungry if you want to succeed. You don’t stay on top by getting fat off of carnivals and dunking booths with clowns in blackface and watergun games where you have to fill up a balloon by shooting the water into a black schoolchild attempting to go into a white school. You just don’t.

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