The contestant was only 12 years old when this footage was filmed. In May 2022, a TikTok video surfaced of Caleb Kennedy sitting near someone in a Ku Klux Klan hood. Just about a year ago, a previous American Idol finalist actually left the show amid his own race-based scandal. The American Idol finalist posted a story titled “Donald Trump says flying the Confederate flag is ‘freedom of speech,'” and it prompted many to think he was speaking out in favor of this symbol. In the snapshot, Colin was featured with a large wild cat he had tracked down and murdered.įinally, a third controversial post uploaded by Stough was from July 2020. “Congratulations!!! Colin Stough for getting a little predator control done and meat in the freezer,” read the post, which the singer shared on his own profile.

In December 2020, meanwhile, the aspiring country crooner was tagged in a post from D.T.D (Deer Turkey & Ducks) Outdoors & Monroe County Whitetails Unlimited, which is a nonprofit that supports the hunting and shooting of wild animals.

“How does a statue being in the same place for 100 years suddenly become offensive and men walking around in public with there a** showing not offensive?” Colin asked in the caption. In June 2021, for example, Stough shared a meme that compared an African American man wearing sagging pants with a Confederate War Memorial statue that was erected in 1906 in Covington, Georgia. Over this past weekend, astute observers uncovered ol dFacebook and Instagram posts that paint Colin in a rather negative light.

Great Feuds in History by Colin Evans