“This is as close as we’ll get to diversity…”

Via Daily Caller…

Hanks’ explains…

“For many years I emceed the annual fundraising auction for my kids’ school,” he said in a statement obtained by E! News. “In 2004, I was blindsided when one of the parents got up on the stage in a costume that was hideously offensive then and is hideously offensive now. What is usually a night of food and drink for a good cause was, regrettably, marred by an appalling few moments.”