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Virginia Republican Was Top Editor of Yearbook That Included Blackface Photos and Racist Slurs
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/07/us/politics/thomas-norment-yearbook-racist.html
Thomas K. Norment Jr., the powerful Republican majority leader in the Virginia Senate, was a top editor of a 1968 college yearbook that included several photographs of students in blackface as well as racist slurs.
Mr. Norment, 72, a longtime fixture and political broker in the State Legislature, is the first Republican to be swept up in Virginia’s ongoing political crisis over racist behavior in the past. The Virginian-Pilot newspaper first reported on the photos and material on Thursday.
Virginia....we have a problem....
Uh oh....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...-friend-they-call-it-silly-high-school-prank/
Some Florida Democrats are calling for the resignation of Republican state Rep. Anthony Sabatini after a photo of him wearing blackface in high school resurfaced this week — an image the ...
Carlton: A Republican in blackface? Not a good image
Carlton: A Republican in blackface? Not a good image
Florida's new secretary of state resigned last week when photos of him dressed as a female Katrina victim in blackface surfaced.
Here is the thing...lots of glass houses in the south right now. Does it matter? Should it matter?
In my opinion, what a person did in high school or college should not generally be what defines them forever. If their career has been otherwise commendable, they haven’t gone on to promote racist memes or activities...why should they resign? Shouldn’t the whole picture be considered? If they otherwise acted bad,y, a public apology for the stupidity and insensitivity of youth should be enough.
And hopefully those schools are no longer promoting such things.p
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/07/us/politics/thomas-norment-yearbook-racist.html
Thomas K. Norment Jr., the powerful Republican majority leader in the Virginia Senate, was a top editor of a 1968 college yearbook that included several photographs of students in blackface as well as racist slurs.
Mr. Norment, 72, a longtime fixture and political broker in the State Legislature, is the first Republican to be swept up in Virginia’s ongoing political crisis over racist behavior in the past. The Virginian-Pilot newspaper first reported on the photos and material on Thursday.
Virginia....we have a problem....
Uh oh....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...-friend-they-call-it-silly-high-school-prank/
Some Florida Democrats are calling for the resignation of Republican state Rep. Anthony Sabatini after a photo of him wearing blackface in high school resurfaced this week — an image the ...
Carlton: A Republican in blackface? Not a good image
Carlton: A Republican in blackface? Not a good image
Florida's new secretary of state resigned last week when photos of him dressed as a female Katrina victim in blackface surfaced.
Here is the thing...lots of glass houses in the south right now. Does it matter? Should it matter?
In my opinion, what a person did in high school or college should not generally be what defines them forever. If their career has been otherwise commendable, they haven’t gone on to promote racist memes or activities...why should they resign? Shouldn’t the whole picture be considered? If they otherwise acted bad,y, a public apology for the stupidity and insensitivity of youth should be enough.
And hopefully those schools are no longer promoting such things.p