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Dov Hikind's Purim blackface escapade was matched only by his remarks afterwards.

When pictures of Assembly member Dov Hikind dressed up in blackface as a "basketball player" for his annual Purim party hit Facebook this week, it prompted a predictable media firestorm.

Predictable, apparently, to everyone except Hikind, who spent the last two days explaining to anyone who would listen that he was astounded anyone could be offended by a Purim costume, because the costume, as he told Gothamist, "was just about being different. And that's what we do on Purim."

Hikind continued to dig the whole deeper, trying to tell the Daily News that his costume was best understood in the wider context of harmless fun: "People in the community were dressed up as Arabs," he said. "What was that about?"

Finally, though, as pressure mounted, Hikind allowed as how maybe it wasn't such a great idea, though his apology was very much of the I'm-sorry-you-were-offended variety. In fact, direct quote: "Anyone who was offended, I'm sorry they were offended."

As a grace note, Hikind capped his everyone-needs-to-lighten-up apology with this sour statement to the New York Times:

"Next year I was thinking I'd be an Indian," he said. "But you know, I've changed my mind about that. I don't think that's a good idea. Somebody will be offended."

So, yeah: Overall, A+ apology, Mr. Hikind. After a performance like that, perhaps it's no surprise that the Assembly member got the national TV treatment from Jon Stewart on the Daily Show. Watch the video after the jump:

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Assembly Member and racist troll Dov Hikind celebrates Purim.

It's only Monday, but Assembly Member Dov Hikind already has a commanding lead in the Most Spectacularly Racist Gesture By A New York Politician This Week contest.

As Politicker first reported, Hikind celebrated Purim this year with a costume party, for which a professional make-up artist transformed him into a "basketball player" by means of an afro wig and blackface. As Hikind told Politicker:

"I was just, I think, I was trying to emulate, you know, maybe some of these basketball players. Someone gave me a uniform, someone gave me the hair of the actual, you know, sort of a black basketball player," Mr. Hikind explained. "It was just a lot of fun. Everybody just had a very, very good time."

Everybody had a good time! Okay! Some of us had been worried that maybe someone might be offended.

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Anyone interested in joining the racist, knuckle-dragging ranks of the Ku Klux Klan is in luck: they're recruiting -- according to an idiotic flier posted at an Upstate college, anyway.

The flier pictured above was posted on the third floor of the Westchester Marriott Hotel in Dobbs Ferry last weekend. The hotel serves as a residence hall for students at Mercy College, so chances are the Ku Klux Klan isn't actually recruiting in Upstate New York -- it's more likely just a dopey prank by some college-age dipshits.

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As we reported earlier, there's a racist "tweet" war waging against re-elected President Barack Obama. The words "nigger" and "monkey" are popular slurs directed at the president by presumably white morons who are upset that they must endure four more years of Obama (gasp!).

But many of these racist assholes aren't your run-of-the-mill, bearded, hillbillies from bum-fuck Arkansas -- they're dopey high school kids, some of whom are from New York.

There's nothing we love more than exposing a-holes for the a-holes they are -- and subsequently making their lives as difficult as humanly possible. But we also took a few journalism ethics courses, where we learned that -- with a few exceptions -- kids are off limits, regardless of how ignorant they may be.

That said, Jezebel over the weekend published a brilliant blog post that not only named several of these racist, teenage idiots, but called their high schools. In some cases, the website contacted colleges at which the students (supposedly) were set to receive scholarships.

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It's no doubt that a few people were devastated when Romney lost the election. And by "few people," we mean everyone on this site. Oh, and this young kid, too. The 48 percent of the country that wanted Romney in (or, more so, wanted Obama out of) the White House was defeated by the tyranny of the 47 percent (which, really, was closer to 50 percent) majority. It was over - Obama had solidified another four years crashing America into the ground and there was nothing more that could be done.

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Despite being a group of racist, knuckle-dragging hillbillies, members of the Ku Klux Klan are entitled to the same rights as anyone else -- so says the American Civil Liberties Union, which is representing Klan members in a lawsuit over an Adopt-a-Highway program in Georgia.

Just to get the laughter out of the way before we go any further, the Klansman behind the lawsuit, Harley Hanson, considers himself the "exalted cyclops of the Georgia Realm of the International Keystone Knights of the KKK."

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In a somewhat strange turn of events, the former leader (that's "Grand Wizard" to you) of the Ku Klux Klan has deemed it fitting to endorse New York's City Councilman Charles Barron in his race for a national Congressional seat.

In the endorsement video (if you can manage to get through all 8.5 minutes of it, which I do not recommend for the sake of your mental health), Duke points out that while he does disagree with Barron on a number of issues (such as Barron's support of affirmative action, and oh, I don't know, the fact that he is African-American), the Zionist conspiracy facing the United States is of such great importance to Duke that he's willing to overlook these trivial issues and throw his support to Barron.

He calls Barron's opponent in the race, Hakeem Jeffries, a "complete zionist sellout, both to the black people, and all the people of America" (because it totally makes sense for a former member of the KKK to judge who's selling out African-Americans), and takes the time to set up a grand conspiracy theory unlike any we've seen before. Apparently, Jews in Hollywood (or the "Zio-media," since Duke is really fond of sticking "zio" in front of any word to make it sound scarier) are conspiring to use movies and media to ensure that "Blacks" and "European-Americans" constantly fight over race. Then they can take over the world. Or something. We're a bit fuzzy on the logic, to be honest.

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Neo-Nazi J.T. Ready killed four people in Arizona yesterday before turning the gun on himself. His racist pals tried blaming the shooting on a "cartel assassination squad."

By now you've probably heard about J.T. Ready, the Nazi hillbilly who killed four people in Arizona before -- like a coward -- turning the gun on himself yesterday afternoon.

At this point, it's fairly clear Ready was the shooter -- our former colleagues in Arizona have confirmed with police that they suspect it to be a case of quadruple-murder/suicide. However, Ready's racist hillbilly buddies are attempting to blame the murders on Mexicans (natch) -- despite there being nothing to suggest anyone but Ready was the shooter.

We met Ready several times during our five years in the desert while working for the Voice's sister paper the Phoenix New Times -- he's one of the more charming National Socialists we've had the displeasure of meeting. Subsequently, we "liked" his Facebook page to keep up with what he and his Nazi buddies were up to. Below is what's currently posted on Ready's page:
 
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