With minutes to go until England begins its World Cup Friendly warm-up against Peru, it appears the supporters will be sporting a somewhat unusual attire. While we have grown used to outrageous costumes in the past, as RT reports, the similarity between “England’s Wearable Flag” and a “Ku Klux Klan Outfit” are a little too close for comfort…
As RT reports, a UK supermarket’s wearable England World Cup flag promotion provoked a storm across social media on Friday after the peaked white hood – supposedly designed to protect the wearer from rain – reminded many of the racist Ku Klux Klan.
Social media is abuzz…
Asda are selling wearable England flags, they look dodgy to say the least… http://ift.tt/1oCduju
— Kieran (@KieranCPhoto) May 29, 2014
A spokeswoman for the supermarket chain responded to the outrage.
“We know there’s chatter on Twitter about our wearable World Cup flags, but it’s simply a flag with a hood – nothing more, nothing less,” she said in a statement.
“We want customers to get behind the team without getting wet.”
via Zero Hedge http://ift.tt/1lYre1Y Tyler Durden