Keep It Hood!

San Diego shoppers saw this conehead.

This is the what we called mask off....

A person took a picture of a shopper decked out in a cone mask typical of the Klan.

This was a picture taken by a shopper in a San Diego Vons Marketplace. The customer appears to be wearing a Ku Klux Klan white hood throughout his shopping trip and ignored requests from staff to remove his hood.

Now the San Diego County Sheriff's Department may consider this incident a disturbance of the peace and inducing panic charge. The asshole does have a right to wear his hood. However, if a store requests the item to be removed from the head and he refuses to obey their request, then it becomes a matter of legal ramifications.

The San Diego Anti-Defamation League had condemned the individual for even thinking that wearing that hood was appropriate.



Vons said that the individual will be banned from shopping at their stores.

"This was a disturbing incident for our associates and customers, and we are reviewing with our team how to best handle such inappropriate situations in the future," said the company in a statement.

Keeping it under the hood.

It not clear whether the store allowed the far-white extremist purchase his items and go but it did make the community nervous about potential backlash from the Klan.

After all, the Klan shops at grocery stores too. They may hate the Black store manager, the Latina cashier, the cart pusher who may have autism, the customer who may be a lesbian with her wife in line and the television running CNN or MSNBC on the screen.

Still, they got to eat too, right?

After all, Donald J. Trump said they are "very fine people."

Customers were fearful of confronting the far-white extremists. Some thought it was a prank.

Customer Alisa Wentzel told CNN that she spotted the individual, whom she believes was a man, as soon as she entered the store. He was waiting in the checkout line wearing the hood.

"Management should be doing something, but I didn't see anyone talking to him. He was just standing in line."

Wentzel moved through aisle and managed to get a picture of this individual and shared it online. She said that she had to maintain distance so she wouldn't be spotted by him.

She might want to take down social media postings so they don't trace her location.

"I just remember feeling so heartbroken, so hopeless and then also just really upset that this would happen in the community that I raised my family in," she said to CNN. "I was just in utter shock and disbelief. I still feel that way."

The hoods were the emblem of the Klan. They often terrorized Blacks, Jews, immigrants and Muslims with that hood.

Blacks faced the worst of the Klan. In the late 19th and early 20th Century, the Klan was a bunch of elite white frat boys who were pissed about the Union beating the confederacy. They started this as a reaction to the Reconstruction Era. They were angry over Black integration in urban communities and the elimination of slavery. So they worked the Supreme Court with Plessy v. Ferguson which officiated the rules "Black only/White only" or "separate but equal." That rule was dropped through Brown v. Board of Education, Loving v. Virginia and Gates v. Collier were decisions that ended segregation.

The city of  Santee where the incident happened condemned the individual.

Santee had incidents with white extremism. It was dubbed, "Klantee."

"Many thanks to all who stepped forward to curtail this sad reminder of intolerance," said John Minto, the mayor of Santee. "Santee and its citizens are great, and this particular individual's actions are not representative of us as a people and a wonderful city."