Ralph Northam yearbook page shows men in blackface and KKK robe

[Anonymous]

If right wingers had it they sat on it because they worried it would make Northam more appealing to what’s left of the GOP base.

Regardless, dude has to go. Even if this ridiculous story about mixed up pictures and whatever is true, “Coonman” didn’t seem bothered enough by it to correct it once the yearbook came out. The whole thing is just gross. Thank U next.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:History has shown time and time again that the party of racism runs deep on the left side of the ledger... just sayin

Not racism but patronizing. If the Dems didn’t pander to their African American constituents, they could win few races in blue states.

White supremacists aren’t infiltrating the Dens, unlike the GOP. Racism is Southern Pride. Southerners are largely racists independent of party.

The most racist people are from the northeast. I never was called the n word until I went to college in Boston and I am from Alabama. Law school in NYC was even worse.

Sorry but you're wrong. The most racist people in the country are in the Pacific Northwest - Seattle, Portland, etc.

Having also grown up in the south (SC and AL) I can tell you the south is way more at ease with black people than the northwest.

At ease, as long as they are in their place.

Get real, there is racism everywhere. That is why it needs to be called out and more education is needed to deprogram Americans who still don't understand that we are all the same, regardless of the color of our wrapping.

Stop with this colorblind crap. It’s damaging.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If Northam resigns (seems unlikely) and Lt. Gov. Fairfax becomes governor, who becomes the new Lt. Gov.? Tommy Norment?

Fairfax will appoint someone.

OK. I had thought that if there’s a vacancy in the Lt. Gov. office, the senate president pro tempore underatkes the Lt. Gov. duties.

[Anonymous]

That doesn’t mean better or worse. Just good at different things. And that’s ok.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:History has shown time and time again that the party of racism runs deep on the left side of the ledger... just sayin

Not racism but patronizing. If the Dems didn’t pander to their African American constituents, they could win few races in blue states.

White supremacists aren’t infiltrating the Dens, unlike the GOP. Racism is Southern Pride. Southerners are largely racists independent of party.

The most racist people are from the northeast. I never was called the n word until I went to college in Boston and I am from Alabama. Law school in NYC was even worse.

Sorry but you're wrong. The most racist people in the country are in the Pacific Northwest - Seattle, Portland, etc.

Having also grown up in the south (SC and AL) I can tell you the south is way more at ease with black people than the northwest.

Disagree. Lived across the south, including NOLA, Missippi (Columbus), and Georgia and as compared to the mid Atlantic and PNW where I lived for several years, the south was h abashed in racism and whites - well educated, reasonably successful - dropped the n-word with impunity. It was awful.

[Anonymous]

What makes this so bad is his whole campaign was based on “vote for me because Cory Stewart is racially insensitive.”

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:History has shown time and time again that the party of racism runs deep on the left side of the ledger... just sayin

Not racism but patronizing. If the Dems didn’t pander to their African American constituents, they could win few races in blue states.

White supremacists aren’t infiltrating the Dens, unlike the GOP. Racism is Southern Pride. Southerners are largely racists independent of party.

The most racist people are from the northeast. I never was called the n word until I went to college in Boston and I am from Alabama. Law school in NYC was even worse.

Sorry but you're wrong. The most racist people in the country are in the Pacific Northwest - Seattle, Portland, etc.

Having also grown up in the south (SC and AL) I can tell you the south is way more at ease with black people than the northwest.

Disagree. Lived across the south, including NOLA, Missippi (Columbus), and Georgia and as compared to the mid Atlantic and PNW where I lived for several years, the south was h abashed in racism and whites - well educated, reasonably successful - dropped the n-word with impunity. It was awful.

+1

One of these region builds monuments to people who fought to preserve slavery, and it's not the Pacific Northwest.

[Anonymous]

So weird that conservatives suddenly care about racism. Weird, oh I mean hypocritical

[Anonymous]

f you have to reach back to the 1860s to find evidence supporting your claim that your political party is "the party of civil rights," please know that you sound like Pabst insisting it's a "blue ribbon beer" because it won a competition all the way back in 1893.

[Anonymous]

I am a life long democrat, and I still consider myself a Democrat, but it turns out that I am getting old (37) and it looks like today is the day I am turning in my liberal card and taking the moderate one.

I am not even comfortable expressing these thoughts publicly, but I am trying them out anonymously, and I am happy to hear other sides or consider other views.

My first reaction to the photo was - "yikes, that is horrible; one of the worst photos I have seen." I still really don't know how Northam recovers from this - I am not sure he can. And I also thought, maybe I can't have any thoughts on the topic because I am not black. But, I am Jewish. So I thought, what if he had dressed as a Nazi? Would I want him to resign? At first, I thought: probably, yes, I would want him to resign, but my friend said: "what if he said it was a bad joke and he was sorry and has learned the error of his ways? You and the world have forgiven Prince Harry for something similar." And I think she was right. I think I would not be happy, but I would like to forgive as I have done with Prince Harry. I don't think I want a standard where our politicians have to be perfect and to have never made mistakes in the past. If in order to hold office you have to have never suffered a lapse in judgment, we would have a really small pool of candidates and I don't think we want that.

I am getting so old that I think what an R has to say is also relevant here: Dan Crenshaw: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-made-amends-with-pete-davidson-on-snl-but-thats-only-the-beginning/2018/11/13/e7314fb0-e77e-11e8-b8dc-66cca409c180_story.html?utm_term=.f56064b88da5

"I also could not help but note that this was another chapter in a phenomenon that has taken complete control of the national discourse: outrage culture. It seems like every not-so-carefully-worded public misstep must be punished to the fullest extent, replete with soapbox lectures and demands for apologies. Anyone who doesn’t show the expected level of outrage will be labeled a coward or an apologist for bad behavior."

I am not impressed with the VA right and their outrage culture acting like the Ds are for infanticide (I'm looking at you, with this part of the article from Dan Crenshaw: How, then, do we live together in this world of differing ideas? For starters, let’s agree that the ideas are fair game. If you think my idea is awful, you should say as much. But there is a difference between attacking an idea and attacking the person behind that idea. Labeling someone as an “-ist” who believes in an “-ism” because of the person’s policy preference is just a shortcut to playground-style name-calling, cloaked in political terminology. It’s also generally a good indication that the attacker doesn’t have a solid argument and needs a way to end debate before it has even begun."). But now I feel the Ds are using outrage culture, too.

To the extent my feelings on Kavanaugh are relevant, they can be summarized in the below article:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/toddessig/2018/09/25/the-kavanaugh-hearing-is-not-he-said-she-said-its-she-remembers-what-he-did-he-doesnt/?fbclid=IwAR0hNgtcG3t7PeOhHSlxkB_XMneeFjzkiID3CDUxotq1lvrJbBEOkb6spxA#4b822fe65a09

Fairfax seems good, so I don't really have any concerns about him taking over. What I have concerns about is the democrat party being increasingly intolerant. We should not tolerate active racism, but maybe we should tolerate learning from past mistakes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What makes this so bad is his whole campaign was based on “vote for me because Cory Stewart is racially insensitive.”

lol the hypocrisy!

[Anonymous]

So glad I voted for Corey Stewart!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:History has shown time and time again that the party of racism runs deep on the left side of the ledger... just sayin

Not racism but patronizing. If the Dems didn’t pander to their African American constituents, they could win few races in blue states.

White supremacists aren’t infiltrating the Dens, unlike the GOP. Racism is Southern Pride. Southerners are largely racists independent of party.

The most racist people are from the northeast. I never was called the n word until I went to college in Boston and I am from Alabama. Law school in NYC was even worse.

Sorry but you're wrong. The most racist people in the country are in the Pacific Northwest - Seattle, Portland, etc.

Having also grown up in the south (SC and AL) I can tell you the south is way more at ease with black people than the northwest.

At ease, as long as they are in their place.

Get real, there is racism everywhere. That is why it needs to be called out and more education is needed to deprogram Americans who still don't understand that we are all the same, regardless of the color of our wrapping.

Stop with this colorblind crap. It’s damaging.

Exactly

[jsteele]

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Anonymous wrote:What makes this so bad is his whole campaign was based on “vote for me because Cory Stewart is racially insensitive.”

lol the hypocrisy!

It was particularly bad because he was running against Ed Gillespie.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So glad I voted for Corey Stewart!

You people! Stewart wasn't his opponent.