• Published:March 13th, 2008
• Comments:3 Comments
• Category:Blog Comments, Movies, The Crazy

It might look like a harmless comments thread for this aging YouTube clip, featuring the segment of the KKK sequence from O Brother, Where Art Thou? with Ralph Stanley’s raspy, haunting vocals on “O Death.” Predictably, given the imagery and subject matter, the thread is also a seething petri dish for The Deep Crazy:

I am proud to say I support the KKK,and I don’t give a shit what you think.Oh boohoo they killed a few blacks,no whites are crying at the thousands of whites killed each year by blacks.Not to say I hate blacks,which I don’t or any other race for that matter.But I support the Klan,and I support what ever they have done in history,its no worst then the NACCP and BLA.And trying to make it seem worst then it really was is what most people do,what ever the klan done was for white protection.

That was sportty1, one of several real or pretend race-baiters who transformed what was a fairly benign thread about the beauty of the song and the film into, well, the sort of place you find youngsters like Confederacy101:

they are holy because god made darkys to do whites will and if they don’t do that they serve no longer purpose and waste our oxygen

Now, to their credit, there are a number of sane, non-racist folks trying to talk (or shout) the bigots down. There is also this guy:

I served two years in the state pen from 1990 to 1991 for blowing a KKK faggot away, but it was WORTH IT! I lied to the cops, said he tried to rape me, pleaded self-defense and they bought it-

KellyLCrutcher: self-admitted homophobe. Self-admitted murderer. Self-admitted big fat liar. And he has some advice for young Confederacy101:

If you want to do everyone else a favor put a bullet through your head

Which garnered this hasty reply from stalwart young Confederacy101’s login ID:

This is Confederacys father and I read what he wrote and was appalled by it and he has lost all priveleges including his you tube membership.I told him to appologise, and I too am sorry and embarrassed. I’m not racist, far from it and will more closely moderate his choice of friends. Wanting to put bullets in anyones head is as hateful as the ignorance of racism, please accept this and go in peace.

KellyLCrutcher’s response is enough to put you off breakfast, and contains just a piquant whiff of not-that-there’s-anything-wrong-with-that:

I’m not african-american but I want to dump every fucking Klan member in the Grand Canyon- hang them, gut them, then dump the bastards.

Well. That was just a bit much for goldrushnumber1’s lily-white ears – and his lily-white organizational skills:

so you want to dump them in the canyon, then hang them, then gut them, then dump them in the canyon again? you stupid faggot, why not just hang them over the canyon, gut them, then drop them in? go to hell you dumb fuck, niggers suck HAIL THE KLAN!

But does KellyLCrutcher back down in the face of evil? Does he heck!

I didn’t post the message you replied to, a friend of mine did.

Truth? Cowardice? Or a snarky callback to his own victory from a Gosh Darn American Hero?

If you’re in the mood to make your head explode, I’ve barely scratched the surface. Take a shower after you click.