“Idol” contestant Kennedy leaves show
“American Idol” finalist Caleb Kennedy is leaving the show after video surfaced that showed him sitting next to a friend who was wearing a white Ku Klux Klan-style hood.
The 16-year-old country singer and Roebuck, South Carolina, native was one of the final five contestants on the ABC show.
The three-second Snapchat clip simply shows Kennedy sitting next to a friend, who is wearing a white hood and white T-shirt.
Kennedy’s mother, Anita Guy, told the Spartanburg Herald-journal that Kennedy was 12 years old when the video was recorded.
She suggested to The Columbia State that someone at Kennedy’s high school was jealous of his success and began circulating the video.