ABOVE: I tell you what, he'd have to REALLY do me wrong for me to divorce THAT. More here.

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When the welcome wagon bears burning crosses. (Image by Jason Garrett)

Even 50 years ago, the KKK seemed impossibly weakened and an artifact of our not-so-distant past as a country. Blatant racism was out of favor. While the system chugged along and Americans wrestled with the concept of “political correctness,” it still seemed like progress.

But now, after the U.S. elected a Black man president twice and a Black woman vice president once (so far), after Black Lives Matter and widespread awareness of racial issues — or perhaps because of these things — hate groups are ascendant.

A Facebook friend shares this image, a KKK care package left for many people in Blue Eye, Missouri, a small town near the Arkansas border. 

Welcome to the past.

ABOVE: Buddy forever!

Bonus image — '70s Yianni ad. Gay men LOVE their jewels. (Image via Yianni)

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ABOVE: It's art.

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When they go high, we go Momoa. (Images via Jimmy Kimmel Live!)

ABOVE: Just a reminder from Jason Momoa to keep it sexy.

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ABOVE: If you like that sort of thing.

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ABOVE: Good enough to cleat.

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ABOVE: Outerwear for the '20s.

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