Theresa Sharp, the mayor of Lahoma, has a husband named Cary, who decided to spend this past Halloween evening with a few buddies who all donned the white hoods and robes of the Ku Klux Klan. An eyewitness named Misty Meister called the police to report the incident. What she reported to authorities was extremely disturbing. According to Meister, the men were dressed as Klansmen while standing around a a backyard bonfire…and they allegedly burned a cross as well.

Garland County (OK) Sheriff Deputy Aaron Moore told Meister that the men’s decision to been seen dressed in Klan gear was their “constitutional right”. Cary Sharp attempted to explain why he and the other men were dressed in this manner, and he had the following to say:

Sit around the bonfire and drink a couple of beers and thought, well my buddy — his last name is White — and the subject got brung up. We just thought it’d be something to do (because they thought it’d be funny), and it’s not something to do. I am embarrassed. I’ve shamed my family and friends, and I apologize for that.

Although Mayor Sharp delivered an apology in regards to her husband, we can’t help but wonder about the countless numbers of politicians here in the U.S. who are either directly involved in these white nationalist (supremacist) groups, or are very closely connected to people who are. No charges were pressed against Cary Sharp or his accomplices.

Here’s the video to the news story below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6NrG021xeg

B. Clark