First Northam now Herring!! And an uncorroborated rumor on Fairfax!! You guys may have to be come a commonwealth again until you guys grow up!!
To be fair I'm sure such pictures are not rare among men in university in the former Confederacy at that time.
The % of Southern Republican pols doing this has to be very high. There are staffers rummaging through old yearbooks as we type. Like the immigrant nanny craze of the Clinton years.
Of course not. I consider it Dem racism. I experience it NY all the time. The Park Slope Liberals that support all these programs but don't want the Mexican restaurant staff playing soccer in the park so they put up poles stopping them.
Statement from Dr Vanessa Tyson. I was very supportive of Fairfax but I am having some serious reservations about him now. I have no reason to doubt Dr Tyson story. https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000168-c430-d6c0-a7ea-d43ce1560002
If Republicans get to appoint a Governor because of all this, democrats will deserve all the shit and jokes that would come out of it. The conservative memes will be something else.
Well if she did tell people about this before now, that does make it more credible. I was just about to start a "Let's all Laugh at Virginia" thread. My opinion is that the voters of Virginia should decide the fate of these three men. You can't do a recall election if the constitution provides other means for removing them from office, which it does (impeachment). But someone has already determined that Northam did not commit an impeachable offense, and I suppose this would apply to Herring, too. I don't know about Fairfax. So yes, laugh away. PS - This is what Palin meant when she talked about "the real Virginia."
If all 3 of these guys go, next in line is the republican speaker of the house, who probably also wore blackface. But it won't come to that because Northam isn't going to resign and they can't remove him from office any other way. He hasn't decided officially, but I think now he definitely won't.
i wish they could do a new election. I have no concern that a solid democratic candidate will win in Va again. The R bench in the state is really thin and full of crazy characters. The last two elections, they ran Cuccinelli theen Stewart, two certified loonies.
Danica Roem. I donated money to her campaign not even knowing she was trans. Just liked her positions on the issues.
I do wonder if everyone in the dem party would have been so eager to have Northam resign if the Lt Governor was somebody like Corey Stewart, Bob Marshall or Barbara Comstock. Probably not so much.
More likely, the archives of college newspapers, 1970 to now... https://newsok.com/article/5401504/ou-racist-incident-is-not-a-first-for-college-campuses Funny that the Oklahoman couldn't find out the names of those fraternities... But Mike remembers, especially the tipi incident with the Pi Kappa Phi frat (Boy Pi Phi's And this shit seems to happen nationally at least once a year
At Dartmouth, the Alpha Delta sorority made fun of black people by dressing up as gang members at a “ghetto” party; a Texas Tech sorority in 2013 threw a border patrol party which mocked the struggles of Hispanic people; and two members of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity at the University of Florida wore blackface to a 2012 party, Beirich said. It’s a troubling trend, she said. “These are college-educated, socially connected people doing things that are just graphically racist, that we would expect it out of some uneducated klansman, not somebody who is a potential leader at a top-line university. That’s pretty frightening.” That's so cute. She sounds like she actually expects higher education to totally eradicate stupidity.
...of a certain generation. I was in my early teens in Texas in the mid '80s and while I wasn't particularly woke, even I knew that blackface and KKK outfits were A Bad Idea.
So its a safe bet that college-educated, male Southern Whitelandians over 50 participated in or were cool being around blackface/Klan robe wearers. Sure explains Trumpism.
More accurate to say, don't bet against it. The 2021 governors race was going to be Herring vs Fairfax. The Racist vs the Rapist - should be a great primary!
Until do-gooder administrators stepped in, that was acually higher ed's most effective stupidity eradication procedure.