Blackface, Virginia and the sound of shattering glass houses

[Coyote]

Liberals are a mess. This new green deal, blackface, baby killing, sexual assaults, 90% tax rates, pretend injuns...sheesh what happened to them?

The mask has been ripped off

good point...now it is impossoble to tell the difference between liberals and cons.

 

[Crixus]

Liberals are a mess. This new green deal, blackface, baby killing, sexual assaults, 90% tax rates, pretend injuns...sheesh what happened to them?

The mask has been ripped off

good point...now it is impossoble to tell the difference between liberals and cons.

That is so dumb. There is no difference between any of the trash in Washington.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

The thing that's really hillarious, Dimocrats today want you to resign if you had blackface, even as just a funny costume, decades ago.
Yet just a handful of years ago they honored and had no problem with Robert Byrd who ACTUALLY WAS an Exalted Cyclops in the KKK in his past.

Don't anyone say this party hasn't radically changed in just a few years.

 

[Olde Europe]

In the best of worlds, this whole Northam (et. al.) issue would be an occasion to look at ourselves. How daily racism pervades the nation to this day, how learning about it is still discouraged or rejected, how even the information about "blackface" is lacking. We'd all have a heck of a lot to do getting a little more insight.

What we see, at least on here and in published opinion, is quite different, in many a case quite understandably so. Democrats look bad, and Republicans, having elected the most overtly racist goon to the highest office of the land, sigh in relief, if they're not gloating outright. For, since the other side has ugly all over them, by comparison, they look better. They still are the party that willingly and eagerly provides a home to racists, and panders to them to keep it that way.

Democrats, of course, see their electoral gains made in 2018 melt away, or prospects in 2020 vanish, and angrily demand the head of the scapegoat - who probably isn't any more guilty than they themselves are. The downside is, of course, as usual when judgment is being rendered before the facts are clear, and principles are firmly established, that a teaching moment is lost, squandered, and political expediency has the upper hand over genuine development.

No one, literally, escapes the lasting heritage, the American (arguably, the human) Birth Defect, in Condoleeza Rice's terms. Dealing with it is hard. I, for one, was most disappointed in Northam. Almost 35 years later, he hasn't thought about the whole thing, how that photo got into his yearbook. After so many years, he hasn't really come to terms with his own past enough to offer a compelling, genuine account of what and who he was, and what steps he took since. It just isn't that important, and never was, as is so often the case with the privileged class.

 

[Aba Incieni]

Liberals are a mess. This new green deal, blackface, baby killing, sexual assaults, 90% tax rates, pretend injuns...sheesh what happened to them?

Sheets...why do you wear them?

You mistake me for a Democrat.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Liberals are a mess. This new green deal, blackface, baby killing, sexual assaults, 90% tax rates, pretend injuns...sheesh what happened to them?

The mask has been ripped off

good point...now it is impossoble to tell the difference between liberals and cons.

The point is the dems (left) started the weaponizing people's pasts and crucufying them over it....all the while having these skeletons in their closests.

The past couple of weeks have been hilarious.

 

[boedicca]

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

Two Dems in Black Face plus 1 Dem Sexual Assaulter < 1 GOP Year Book Editor

And the Dem-Progs started this nonsensical witch hunt, so your attempt to make the GOP morally equivalent in the culpability pins the Bogometer. Jim Crow law promoters and the KKK were largely made up of Democrats. It's the Dem heritage on display in the South.

 

[Correll]

Neil Young was right about the Southern Man.

Neil Young was ignoring the last 50 years.

The song came out 49 years ago. Which 50 years do you think he ignored?

I admit that I did not realize it was that old.

My point stands. He acts like slavery ended yesterday And he ignores the price paid by the south in blood. And treasure.

 

[Coyote]

Liberals are a mess. This new green deal, blackface, baby killing, sexual assaults, 90% tax rates, pretend injuns...sheesh what happened to them?

The mask has been ripped off

good point...now it is impossoble to tell the difference between liberals and cons.

The point is the dems (left) started the weaponizing people's pasts and crucufying them over it....all the while having these skeletons in their closests.

The past couple of weeks have been hilarious.

Just the Dems...really? They all do it. You know it.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

This is how the French Revolution started.

They started cutting peoples heads off, and just couldn't stop until there were no more people.

The few that were left wanted a dictator. They installed Napoleon as Emperor.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Liberals are a mess. This new green deal, blackface, baby killing, sexual assaults, 90% tax rates, pretend injuns...sheesh what happened to them?

The mask has been ripped off

good point...now it is impossoble to tell the difference between liberals and cons.

The point is the dems (left) started the weaponizing people's pasts and crucufying them over it....all the while having these skeletons in their closests.

The past couple of weeks have been hilarious.

Just the Dems...really? They all do it. You know it.

It keeps going over your head...I'm talking about the usual leftist hypocrisy.

Catch up or stop annoying me