Ralph Northam yearbook page shows men in blackface and KKK robe

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Let's just remember.... a week ago, the Florida Sec of State resigned when pictures surfaced of him in blackface 15 years ago.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/24/politics/blackface-florida-state-secretary/index.html

I thought he was a Republican, though.

He is a Republican.

So is the current Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi, who appears on his yearbook page in blackface with a confederate flag bandanna. In 1995.

https://american-ledger.com/accountability/mississippi-gop-gubernatorial-front-runner-tate-reeves-fraternity-yearbook-page-included-blackface/

You really need to check your comprehension. The article specifically states that it cannot be confirmed if the photo is him.
But I bet you were expecting people not to read the article.

Thank you!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Didn't Ralph already ADMIT to being in the photo?
Yes, he did. Why?

Crickets.

[Anonymous]

No Liberal here wants to defend the Governor's lying?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
No Liberal here wants to defend the Governor's lying?

That’s about the fourth time the question has been asked on this thread, and it has been answered before. Stop being lazy and thinking it makes you look clever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
No Liberal here wants to defend the Governor's lying?

That’s about the fourth time the question has been asked on this thread, and it has been answered before. Stop being lazy and thinking it makes you look clever.

Wouldn't it take less effort to answer?
Oh wait! "It's complicated." Lol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
No Liberal here wants to defend the Governor's lying?

That’s about the fourth time the question has been asked on this thread, and it has been answered before. Stop being lazy and thinking it makes you look clever.

Wouldn't it take less effort to answer?
Oh wait! "It's complicated." Lol.

Nope and nope. Stop being lazy.

[Anonymous]

Surely the answer is somewhere in the 75 pages!

[Anonymous]

Is this really the best answer he could muster?

Why do you still deserve this job? @GayleKing asks @GovernorVA

Northam: This state needs healing and “theres no better person to do that than a doctor” so I’m “not going anywhere”

[Anonymous]

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/429335-gayle-king-corrects-northam-for-referring-to-slaves-as-indentured

Holy crap, this guy is worse than I thought. I hope that if I am ever in a situation like this, I can remain as classy and diplomatic as Gayle King. My goodness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/429335-gayle-king-corrects-northam-for-referring-to-slaves-as-indentured

Holy crap, this guy is worse than I thought. I hope that if I am ever in a situation like this, I can remain as classy and diplomatic as Gayle King. My goodness.

He's actually not wrong. The first slaves were treated as indentured servants. Looks like he's been doing his reading, though that's probably too fine of a distinction to make to quell the outrage machine.

[Anonymous]

Yes, he has jumped the shark with that African Indentured Servant crap

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, he has jumped the shark with that African Indentured Servant crap

Now being factually correct is a bad thing, apparently. Too bad for Northam that he is better informed than his critics. It's one thing to have the blind leading the blind, but now the blind want to lead the sighted. It may be true that Idiocracy was a documentary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is this really the best answer he could muster?

Why do you still deserve this job? @GayleKing asks @GovernorVA

Northam: This state needs healing and “theres no better person to do that than a doctor” so I’m “not going anywhere”

And I thought surgeons were arrogant....

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, he has jumped the shark with that African Indentured Servant crap

Now being factually correct is a bad thing, apparently. Too bad for Northam that he is better informed than his critics. It's one thing to have the blind leading the blind, but now the blind want to lead the sighted. It may be true that Idiocracy was a documentary.

being "treated" like an Indentured servant is different from "being" an indentured servant
Was there any debt owed by the Africans who arrived in the US? Had they been sentenced to indenture as a result of a crime?
Does tre as ting someone like family make them family, in the eyes of the law? French slaves in the Americas were treated LIKE french serfs, but they were, in fact, not serfs

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, he has jumped the shark with that African Indentured Servant crap

Now being factually correct is a bad thing, apparently. Too bad for Northam that he is better informed than his critics. It's one thing to have the blind leading the blind, but now the blind want to lead the sighted. It may be true that Idiocracy was a documentary.

being "treated" like an Indentured servant is different from "being" an indentured servant
Was there any debt owed by the Africans who arrived in the US? Had they been sentenced to indenture as a result of a crime?
Does tre as ting someone like family make them family, in the eyes of the law? French slaves in the Americas were treated LIKE french serfs, but they were, in fact, not serfs

At that time, slavery as it came to be in the Colonies and later in the US did not exist. See this article:

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1narr3.html

"We sometimes imagine that such oppressive laws were put quickly into full force by greedy landowners. But that's not the way slavery was established in colonial America. It happened gradually -- one person at a time, one law at a time, even one colony at a time."
...

"Historically, the English only enslaved non-Christians, and not, in particular, Africans. And the status of slave (Europeans had African slaves prior to the colonization of the Americas) was not one that was life-long. A slave could become free by converting to Christianity. The first Virginia colonists did not even think of themselves as "white" or use that word to describe themselves. They saw themselves as Christians or Englishmen, or in terms of their social class. They were nobility, gentry, artisans, or servants."