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Student Dresses As KKK For History Class

A photograph of a student dressed as a KKK member for a history class at Niles High School in Michigan on March 31 has stirred controversy.

The picture of the student dressed as a Klansman went viral after being posted on the social media app Snapchat and circulating on Facebook.

"You look at all the different things that's going on around the country already with race relations, and you just don't think that you'd actually have to be dealing with that kind of stuff here," Pastor Bryant Bacon, of Mount Calvary Baptist Church, told 57 News.

Read entire article at Opposing Views