Palms

by E.D. Kain on April 8, 2009

The following images I found rather startling, actually – which is largely due to the fact that in America men walking about in white pointy hoods generally denote membership to certain rather ugly groups.  This is apparently not the case in Spain.

There’s more over at The Times.  Great photos.

Tagged as: easter, palm sunday

E.D. Kain is a blogger and freelance writer. Currently he serves as Editor-in-Chief of The League of Ordinary Gentlemen and writes a tech blog at Forbes. Visit his politics blog here. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The National Review, The Washington Examiner, and the now-defunct True/Slant. You can also contact him via email.

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1 Mark Thompson April 10, 2009 at 6:39 am

The thought that comes to my mind looking at those photos is that it’s obvious that the KKK’s garb is directly stolen from those traditions, which can obviously no longer occur amongst decent people in the US. It is absolutely tragic that because of the KKK, those traditions have come to mean for most Americans the precise opposite of their original, and more univeral, meaning.

2 E.D. Kain April 10, 2009 at 9:05 am

I know, it’s really very sad. The Nazi’s, of course, stole the Swastika from the Indians also. I opened several old copies of some Rudyard Kipling books and they were completely covered in Swastikas – a symbol Kipling used, apparently, as a sort of icon for his writing.

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