16-Year-Old Singer Leaves ‘Idol’ Over KKK Video Controversy 

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As he should😂😂

bruh

@@roshaun411 is he not?

It was funny because they erased him. IE be doing to much 🤣

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Lmao

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And that hat looked nothing like the one in the movie, for the record!

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​@@Leslie-zn9ly in the video he was 12 not when he was in the singing show

Welcome to America.

@The King Then Tell White People To Stop Victimizing Themselves. Y'all Give Cancel Culture Your Time And Day. Ignore Them Because Cancel Culture Barely Work

CANCELED BY ASSOCIATION

And it looks like the pillow case wasn't trying to depict KKK but to determine that for sure one would need full bideo

imagine uploading something where you’re casually sitting next to someone wearing that with no issues. deserved, kid had no problem with racists he probably was one too

He was twelve and supposedly that’s not what happened

@@creepylifeofme1927 what happened

@@cheslynjames8287 according to the mother it had to do with the strangers movie he say and he was dressing as on of those characters not at the KKK though this is based on what the mom said of a video made years ago so who really knows

Or just don’t be racist

@@creepylifeofme1927 I feel sorry for him

oops i made ur Likes number "66------"

He is bloody awesome! Strong contender to win the whole thing. The kid was 13 when the video was made. He probably didn’t even know what the Ku Klux Klan were about. So I guess he took himself off the show. Too bad.

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I mean, he was top 5. But so is everybody else on the show right now.

I also wouldn't say he is a favorite new "racist" for sitting next to a costume at age 12 and people would see he spent time practicing guitar and singing - and people would move on.

Probably, but it is what it is...the video is out there now

I think it is as well , he should be judged on his character and actions .

@The Empress bro did you not listen it was taken out of context mans was 12 and he wasn’t even the one wearing it

Yea I believe this as well, they knew he had a chance to win it all. It's rediculous how people get so upset over others people past. What I did at 12 had not bearing on me now. Get over it people. Caleb should have won.

@@austinmason1560 that man was not 12 they lied and said that to not make it look as bad as it already was 🙄. he sent that video to my friend over the summer and has posted many other racist things.

And how would they have gotten hold of that footage?? 😑. It was most likely leaked by his friend who was filming that clip

Lmao Caleb didn't even deserve to be top 24

Well he shouldn’t have posted it AND SHARED IT! 🤷🏽‍♀️

He was gonna get taken out that day anyways, he was the worst of the 5.

Yeah

george floyd cant break lmaooo white lives >>>>

He got troskied

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You make it sound bad he explained what happened but people just take it how they wanna take it people love hating on other people love drama so they took it how they wanted it to look like.

I mean to me if you have true friends from all races its a little hard to be racist.

@@anthonyrodrigues5032 ive have sooo many racist friends. Its. Not hard.

@@tiltednite2366 well see people who say that tend to be racist and his hat was far from the movie he liked the movie had a paper bag not a upside down cone hat

@@tiltednite2366 what way would the video be taken in then they always use the I have friends of this race excuse that god old a long time ago

It's probably ridiculously embarrassing. I don't blame him

"not apologizing judge I didn't know I was driving my friend to I crime and we all know ignorance of the law is a free pass "

Right

​@@luckystarstar5985how is that comparable lol

@@luckystarstar5985he was still a little kid bruh

*today

Maybe he turned to drinking because his life was destroyed over nothing? I'd dare say that the people calling him racist, could be partly to blame for him making those choices.

@@JTheraosare you seriously STILL defending him? Did you defend his kkk video? And now you’re defending his dui that killed a person? Talk about bias and celebrity idolism.

@@lang-ed3bkyou didn’t watch the video till the end it had nothing to do with the kkk

@@lang-ed3bkhis life got destroyed over nothing that video doesn’t even mean anything. You soft asl goodbye

An angel

@@ZODDism This ^

I know right. Must be a jealous GF. Like, that person should have chilled and stopped messing his life up. He wasn’t the one wearing the hood even.

@@ZODDism Get help.

@@ZODDism he was 12 the video had nothing to do with the kkk and it wasnt even him

ikr

how do you even know he's racist then?

@@ThahnG413 just because you have friends of all races doesn’t give you a free pass...

@@ThahnG413 you don’t see that someone is racist through their friends but through their actions. That hood definitely stemmed from the KKK and not a movie. That’s a racist act and all he did was film it... Him having friends of all races doesn’t excuse him of this nor does this automatically not make him a racist. That’s not how it works.

"I'm not racist my cat is black"💀

I m how dare they not spend all their time perfecting the art of cosplay before making a 5 second video at the age or 12.

@@danaellis3861 so you think someone from SC doesn't know what a klansmen hood looks like? He could have put a regular sheet over his head, or the none cone shaped corner of the pillow case.

@@ceeedwards8453 i think you guys accusing a 12 year old boy of being a kkk supporter is batshit insane.

@@danaellis3861 agreed

@@Manat_ its really sad. I honestly feel bad for that kid,

Unless he intentionally killed someone, it wasn't murder. Quit changing definitions if words so it can fit your narrative. It was manslaughter, of that in fact happened.

Seriously?

And I wonder why he was drunk...

He was not drunk at all. He had a very very trace level of THC in his system and his prescribed Prozac. Maybe you should read the story.

so don't be stupid people

That's great

@@kcarch25unkown27 HE WAS TWELVE, you didn’t do dumb stuff as a kid? If you didn’t you’re lying. Because we all made mistakes as kids, that’s the leaning process. But funny enough it’s you that need to grow up...

@@knucklesskinner253 The genocide of a whole race isn’t just “dumb stuff”

He’s too young to be judged

It's why I have my notifications turned off but some of the stuff they post is interesting.

They always do. I turned off notifications a long time ago.

lol u must be new here

It's nice to have these videos to watch during this pandemic.

Lmaoooo

If he did nothing wrong, why would he say he's sorry for letting his fans down. 🤣

​@@user-ll9qk2el4dBecause we live in an age of pitchforks and torches

@@charliekelly735 Nah, it just makes him look like he's admitting it's true.

​@@user-ll9qk2el4dhuh, you make no sense

Racism doesnt make u sick tho?

Thats the most racist horror film ive ever seen 😂🎉

lol girl bye

😂 really? They were wearing a KKK hood. 🤦🏽‍♀️ PLEASE SMH

@@laffytiffy4730seriously, they always make it seem like its not that big but This actually happening. It actually is sick

Only evil people see evil intentions, past means past and leave it there

@@Freya-bs5tx so you wanna free all murderers because it was in the past? lol

Unless they killed someone then ya people should move on.

So when you see all the evil things in the world does that mean you're evil? That comment doesn't make sense.

@@kcarch25unkown27 well some murders and criminals change though

South Park

Bruh moment

I did that when I was 5, I never dressed as a Ghost again.

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Womp womp

Your right , it does suck

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@@MadPaperMarioeverything is controlled and monitored. Can’t have nudity in mature games. Can’t have pretty girls in games anymore always gotta be uglified and just getting worse. Keep saying womp womp there’s more to come…

This just shows that the people you hang around with could hurt you in someway

BYE-😭😭😭😭😭

Ya I hate when they say that .it always there go to line 🤦‍♀️ if stupid could fly he need a fork . Give me a break

@@crimson.killer ironic how that's coming from someone who had a dragon mid ball pfp, I wrote this 8 months ago and I even forgot I wrote this 🤡 go back to watching your mid shonen anime bro

its not a flawed statement tho? like what racist person is gonna hang out with someone they hate?

You would think people would learn this. It's been happening to athletes for a while. As soon as they get some shine, someone digs up something they said a long time ago.

@@jamalsowell3650 I've seen so many racist kids of that age on online chat sites it's disturbing.

Exactly.

@@vb8428 called being outrageous for attention

@@vb8428 called being outrageous for attention

He definitely is.

Bald doesn't mean anything regarding age. It's genetics. I had a friend in junior high who was losing his hair and he was 14. 🧑‍🦲

That's what racism does to you

Ikr, I thought I was the only one who thought that he looked way too old for his age

@@chip73731 inbreeding tends to have side effects

I love Inside Edition

If he was 12 in 2017 then his mother lied because the movie came out in 2018.

@@ionknow9614 tjdidjsin

inside edition is low key shady. everyone sleeps on them because they mostly just do puff pieces

Samee

No one cares about yall tho lol

inside edition goes hard like that and I love them for it hahah

LMFAOOO I DIED

Lol Cackling past midnight! 😩😆 .... !

george floyd cant break lmaooo white lives >>>>

Exactly -- He said NOTHING, && THAT'S the issue, sweetheart. I'm tired of people acting like a hero because they ignored a situation. See something SPEAK UP.

@@juicydru It was a 3 second clip! We have NO IDEA what was said or done after that. Do you want your entire life judged by what someone else was wearing or doing in a 3 second video clip when you were a kid?

@@katemorgan2464 Right?! Now that kid went on to fatally kill someone in a DUI accident! Let's judge him on that instead! What a moron! (also sitting next to a KKK cosplay and filming yourself smiling friendly is still not a good look)

Ikr

He technically said friends of all races

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I believe his mom used it lol and it was "of all races" ....still a big yikes.

OH MY GOSH A HEATHERS FAN BUT NOT THE MOVIE THE MUSICAL!!!! 😌

He was 12 when he made it, which was 3 years ago.

@@ActWithUnderstanding he is 16 right now which means he was 12 4 years ago

The original Strangers came out in 2008.

Ik that but either way he and his mom said it was based off of strangers 2

@@ActWithUnderstanding he is 16 now subtract 4 from 16

Yeah not at all really

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Yeah, but if you make your own and your 12 years old - it's probably going to turn out looking like it did.

@@Incomudro1963 no, it's pretty hard to make a pointed hood rather than just a sheet over your head

@@frosty6922 adding onto that where's the iconic smiley face?

The mask is like that idiot

It’s homemade that’s why it’s pointy

@@rlm2933 but it isn’t, the mask in the movie is completely flat. And dude I’m going to be real with you, in order to make a mask that pointy would take more effort than just cutting up a pillow case to make a flat top mask. But what’s done is done

@@rlm2933 Only an idiot can not tell something sharp from something flat. So...

Umm yes it is?

He still is a kid. 🐴

Yeah I don’t remember seeing a pointed mask in the movie

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I really wanted to believe his story, but someone actually had to put effort into making that white sheet mask pointy 🤔

Exactly she was 🤥🤥😂😂

​@@cormacthem8406 lemme put my pillow sheet over my head that corner is pointy

Nice pfp

SEW* ....In this case anyways, I'd say it's "You reap what you sew" 😂

@@ishy6875 where is it from ?

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I'm still trying to figure out what he did wrong

@@saintsfan0499 HaWight POWUR!!!

@@saintsfan0499 problem is thinking any part of that video could be construed as “comedy”. Whether he was in the background or the forefront, it’s an extremely insensitive joke that many don’t find comical. He’s now learning the consequences of poor decision making or guidance. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I'll still hire him

Hopefully any employer with a brain won’t refuse to hire someone based on a mistake at 12 years old. It’s baffling to me this culture of ruining peoples lives based on what they did when they were immature preteens.

you gonna cast the first stone like you haven't done some messed up stuff before huh 😒🙄

@@user-gu1ed1kb8x that’s not even the point. his dumb lil mistake was recorded. to be broadcasted to the world for everyone to always see. that’s different than making a small mistake no one sees.

@@DesireeEagle true, except it wasn't his mistake, his friend was wearing a strangers cosplay,

I don't think he should be cancelled though , he wasn't wearing the costume and he was 12 at the time , his character should speak for him

This dude has on a full klan robe.

@@sandra-jones Its just an white under- shirt thats not close to the robe

@@manboss52gaming30 with a point

@@sandra-jones it’s literally just a white sheet on his head meant to resemble a ghost. Grow up

@@rb6forlife389 so you've given a totally different excuse than what he and his mother have given. Who should be believed you, him and his mom or what it looks like in the video. You asked me to grow up...I say to you be consistent in the lie...

Well you shouldn't be posting KKK videos on social media

@Donald J. Trump Ur ...name..

@Donald J. Trump no one misses you, go away

@Donald J. Trump What’s wrong being gay?

@Donald J. Trump Nope. Nothing is.

yeah I thought she had a point until I saw that

What’s wrong with having friends of all races?

@@williamratcliffe7833 nothing is wrong with that, it’s just the most used excuse for racist people is that they have friends of all races

@@goldengaming1019 but what if it’s true?

@@williamratcliffe7833 No one with friends of all races will use them as a prop. It would be evident in their social media posts, their texts, their thank you speeches, or something. They don’t have to been in all things, but damn. Even if it’s something as small as a postcard showing that you and those friends spent Christmas together, but not the verbal excuse. That shows nothing.

In this day and age, it is NOT a "blessing in disguise." Any employer who even THOUGHT about hiring him can search his name and oh- "THIS GUY IS A RACIST CANCEL HIM!" It will be very difficult for him to move on from this unless he moves far away.

​@zwilder Speculation only

Now who’s the racist

@@veracoggins2694 good point

LOL, absolutely. Permed mullet in 2021....😂

I was thinking the same. 😆

Lionel Richie used to wear a mullet. Does that mean he is racist? I might add, he was over the age of 12 when he wore a mullet. I happen to be a huge fan of Lionel Richie but if mullets mean you're racist, well, I guess you need to remain consistent in your beliefs, right? Honestly, equating mullets with racism is beyond ridiculous! Next it will be, "If you sneeze you're a racist". This idiotic way of thinking is taking away from the real issues of racism facing our country. Keep crying wolf and no one will give a d@"n in the end.

HE WAS 12-

@@khloemccullough9753 Sucks.

@@khloemccullough9753 He’s not getting executed he just got kicked off a singing show

@@kimberlyskits7241 for now...

@@khloemccullough9753 don't underestimate 12 year olds lol. they know much better than that

Accountability, it's in his heart.

especially when it's over a misunderstanding, my heart goes out to this guy.

HUNGEY GAMES FAN YAY 🥳

Correct and look at the rest of the costume...

@@sandra-jones why do people have to be racist though?

Uhh you can easily make one lmao

@@jadorecats3220 doesn't mean people will choose to

@@jadorecats3220 who actually would though

He made a video joking with the guy and it wasn’t from a movie that’s just a sorry excuse he’s a racist

What??

@Abe Garfield Well I apologise, but I unfortunately don't understand what they meant.

Yeah, I'm a pretty well-educated guy but I guess I have no idea what in the Emily Brontë you just typed 🤷‍♂️. Guess I should have majored in English back in college.

When you've been watching too much jordan peterson.

very cool comment to keep loaded in the holster for dinner parties. especially when you already posted it a month ago on another site. “ Is that what you do, memorize some obscure passage and pass it off as your own to impress some girls and embarrass my friend .....?”

I love birds

No, no they don't, ever kid has not made a video of their selfs as kkk, and even if everyone did it, if everyone stole would it make it right, don't bring that logic it makes you sound dumb AF

@@ed1tz468 so your saying...nothing you've ever done in your past could be used against you? God cancel culture is cancer sometimes he was 12

@@user-cr3db7cb8n there's no thing as cancel culture. Actions have consequences.

@@taf4939 "no such thing as cancel culture" hell yeah there is people on the Internet will find something you did 6-7 years ago and cancel you for it for no reason like cmon bro get a life .

@@chilly1661 that’s called a free market, actions have consequences simple. No such think as cancel culture

You take it how they described it, a murderer from a movie.

@@KwispyKwemeDoge they just used a friend's Klan hood because it's the only one they could find

@@gregXxo The kid that got kicked off wasn’t the one wearing it

@@KwispyKwemeDoge you make it sound that the kid was across the room from Caleb and not sitting side by side

@@KwispyKwemeDoge What kind of logic is that? "He wasn't wearing it" WHAT?!

How do you make a bag into a pointy KKK hat? Yeah, right....

Or just not racist?.... 💀

@@ninabean5278 Or just be a sad human being who gets offended by the littlest things

@@ww2nerd247 saids the white man

@@gregXxo im actually black so your pretty racist

@@ww2nerd247 and I'm white but you if don't have a issue with people wearing a closely resembled klan hood whether they were acting out a movie or not the more power to you but alot of people do have an issue with it and American Idol had no choice to let him go ( or tell him to drop out) without losing sponsers and viewers

Kids should know better, teach ur kids at an early age about racism. 12 is too late

girl hes 12 he knows what the KKK is he lit said bow

His 12 year-old self knew he was making a joke. Anyone is entitled poke fun at other cultures & their history if there's no malicious intent behind it; hence why it's called a joke. Society is the real problem for trying to make a trivial and inoffensive video into a pseudo-serious issue

Lol I knew about kkk when I was like 8 lol, don't even bring that up lol

@@zer0name720 omg the KKK and bow down, such a joke! So funny! Society is the issue!

It looks like he filmed that recently. I'd like to see some more "12" year old pictures so I can compare.

Solid username

@@walkthelonesomeroad1792 Well, Black Power and Negrodamus were already taken so I had to settle for this one.

The ole “I have a black friend” card.

​@@Sssteelo😂

Genius