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This is just my personal opinion based upon my own experience from long ago. I was a young adult when the civil rights workers disappeared, the little girls were blown up in a church, and many other instances, including hangings, that were in the news at that time. Even though or *because* the likely culprits where known KKK members, they escaped justice at that time.
I would like to think that this party wished a humorous view of the "politically incorrect" views of today, and some creativity in approach. A black student giving a KKK member the perp walk with a noose around his (KKK) neck would make great satire of the politically incorrect.
I think there is a difference between "politically incorrect" as a form of satire, and revisiting recent history in a crude and possibly ignorant attempt to shock for the purpose of humor.
Like I already said, my reaction was a wince given my "history." It is likely that the students performing this stunt had no personal association to the former actions of the KKK, but they can't excuse an ignorance of blacks being nearly beaten to death, sodomized with a broom handle, or shot multiple times on the way to his wedding, all by police officers.
Things have not changed that much to remain detached or ignorant.
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"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." Molly Ivins - 1944-2007
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