Ralph Northam yearbook page shows men in blackface and KKK robe

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Anonymous wrote:Nathan Bedford Forrest joined the Ku Klux Klan, apparently in 1867, two years after its founding, and was elected its first Grand Wizard. The group was a loose collection of local groups that used violence and the threat of violence to maintain white control over the newly-enfranchised slaves. While Forrest was a Klan leader, during the elections of 1868, the Klan suppressed voting rights of blacks and Republicans in the South through violence and intimidation.

The Klan's activity infiltrated the Democrat's campaign for the presidential election of 1868. Prominent ex-Confederates, including Forrest, the Grand Wizard of the Klan, and South Carolina's Wade Hampton, attended as delegates at the 1868 Democratic Convention, held at Tammany Hall headquarters at 141 East 14th Street in New York City

During the presidential election of 1868, the Ku Klux Klan under the leadership of Forrest, and other terrorist groups, used brutal violence and intimidation against blacks and Republican voters.

The Republicans had nominated one of Forrest's battle adversaries, Union war hero Ulysses S. Grant, for the Presidency at their convention held in October. Klansmen took their orders from their former Confederate officers.[165] In Kansas, there were over 2,000 murders committed to suppress blacks and Republicans from voting. In Georgia, Republicans and blacks received threats and beatings at a higher rate. In Louisiana, 1,000 blacks were killed to suppress Republican voting. The Klan's violence was primarily designed to intimidate voters, targeting black and white supporters of the Republican Party.

The first grand wizard of KKK was a Democrat and served in office as a dem.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Bedford_Forrest

Thank you very much for this documentation.

It’s all online: the founders of the klan were Democrats and they were elected and served as democrats. They killed ALOT of republicans, as well as black and catholic people.

They were simply the republicans of the time. Then they switched parties later. It's accurate to say it was created by republicans because those same people would be republicans today.

Exactly.

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Lincoln would be appalled by the modern-day GOP.

MAGA hats are 21st century KKK hoods. We all know it.

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Coonman is definitely a secret Republican!

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I have to laugh at the way the liberals here are trying to spin this story to somehow blame Republicans.

This is why we love you all. You are always good for a laugh. You keep us entertained.

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Anonymous wrote:From the party that founded the KKK, the Democrats!

That's a Koch lie. Doesn't matter how often you repeat it, it doesn't make it true. The KKK was founded by republicans.

Even the most far-left liberals admit that the KKK was founded by Democrats. Surely you know that.

Go away.

You mean “away , away, away down south in Dixie?”

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Anonymous wrote:Another source:
https://www.vox.com/2016/7/20/12148750/republican-party-trump-lincoln

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Anonymous wrote:Coonman is definitely a secret Republican!

Which is why Gillespie didn't want anyone to know about the photo.

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Anonymous wrote:I have to laugh at the way the liberals here are trying to spin this story to somehow blame Republicans.

This is why we love you all. You are always good for a laugh. You keep us entertained.

Agree!

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Anonymous wrote:From the party that founded the KKK, the Democrats!

That's a Koch lie. Doesn't matter how often you repeat it, it doesn't make it true. The KKK was founded by republicans.

Even the most far-left liberals admit that the KKK was founded by Democrats. Surely you know that.

Go away.

You mean “away , away, away down south in Dixie?”

LULZ

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Anonymous wrote:So Northam was about to show reporters his “Moonwalk” until his wife stepped in to stop him:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6661511/BIZARRE-moment-Governor-Northam-appears-CONSIDER-doing-moonwalk-wife-intervenes.html

He can't be a racist if he can do a moonwalk. His wife screwed it up.

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I don’t think this is a good look for the democratic governor.

But I also see a left wing embracing these rappers who say the nastiest things imaginable about women and it’s all ok!

So, I think it’s funyn when they say I am supposed to get worked up about this yearbook picture.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think this is a good look for the democratic governor.

But I also see a left wing embracing these rappers who say the nastiest things imaginable about women and it’s all ok!

So, I think it’s funyn when they say I am supposed to get worked up about this yearbook picture.

It was 35 years ago. Ancient history.

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Locker room talk.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think this is a good look for the democratic governor.

But I also see a left wing embracing these rappers who say the nastiest things imaginable about women and it’s all ok!

So, I think it’s funyn when they say I am supposed to get worked up about this yearbook picture.

You are comparing the highest elected leader in the state to musicians?

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I have not read this entire thread and I do not condone or accept that year book picture at all.

If Northam were a Republican the right would be saying "Boys will be boys!" "Ancient history!"

That anyone on the right feels compelled to be outraged is beyond.

The VA GOP has attacked Northam in the past for supporting the removal of Confederate statues. Now the outrage? Hypocrites. Evry damn one of you.

How quickly you all forget Kavanaugh's yearbook and his dear friends' entries about the Klan. SMH.

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Anonymous wrote:Good lord he’s on TV still denying it. He should be stepping down...embarrassing.

Edit: he’s talking about other times he dressed in blackface. What is going on

Edit 2: Okay, so here’s his logic. He shouldn’t resign now because he definitely wasn’t in blackface in the picture, because he very distinctly remembers the other time he dressed in blackface. That’s a maniacal excuse.

Edit 3: Don’t worry guys, he reassured us that he spoke to and apologized to a friend of his who is a person of color.

I'm a Virginian. I believe people can learn from their mistakes. But he should have been ahead of this before he ran. Now he keeps changing his story. At this point, I hope he resigns because he's clearly an idiot. If he can't handle this, how can he govern the state?