A cruise firm has apologized and said that its employees dressed as “snow cones” rather than the KKK. In what seemed to be fancy dress for a Christmas party, employees of a P&O Cruises.
Ship allegedly stunned passengers in disbelief when they crossed the deck in all-white boiler suits with white gloves and matching white cones over their hats.
These masks were cut off so that only their eyes were visible, and many people compared them to the hoods and ‘robes’ of the white nationalist Ku Klux Klan.
Since then, the Australian cruise ship has come out, stating that staff members made a fancy dress mistake and are “horrified” to have upset anybody.
After departing on December 19 for an eight-day holiday to Hobart and the Bass Strait islands, the Pacific Explorer, carrying 2,000 passengers, was returning to Melbourne when the event occurred.