Anonymous
Post 02/02/2019 14:14     Subject: Re:Ralph Northam yearbook page shows men in blackface and KKK robe

Sitting on these pics is a travesty...

Not resigning because of these pics is a travesty...

The Virginia I used to love is becoming a travesty...
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2019 14:11     Subject: Ralph Northam yearbook page shows men in blackface and KKK robe

Don’t blame me, I voted for Ed Gillespie!
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2019 14:09     Subject: Re:Ralph Northam yearbook page shows men in blackface and KKK robe

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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.


Yep. Try buying a house in Mercer Island


Try buying a house - or renting an apartment - in white nieghborhoods down south if you’re not white.


Try it in Bethesda.


I live in Bethesda and there are plenty of buying opportunities for everyone willing to pay the price for the propertty.


Yeah I don't see how anyone non white can be denied if they have cash. Any person no matter how racist loves money and won't care about the color.
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2019 14:07     Subject: Re:Ralph Northam yearbook page shows men in blackface and KKK robe

Anonymous wrote:
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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.


Yep. Try buying a house in Mercer Island


Try buying a house - or renting an apartment - in white nieghborhoods down south if you’re not white.


Try it in Bethesda.


I live in Bethesda and there are plenty of buying opportunities for everyone willing to pay the price for the propertty.
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2019 14:05     Subject: Re:Ralph Northam yearbook page shows men in blackface and KKK robe

Anonymous wrote:
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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.


The Pacific Northwest rounded up its citizens of Japanese heritage, stole their property and put them in concentration camps. No region is immune from racism in the US.


...during WW2, when it was done in the interest of national security. Although there is a GOP white supremacist in Spokane, so yes, the PNW does have it own issues with racism. But it pales in comparison to the south.
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2019 14:05     Subject: Re:Ralph Northam yearbook page shows men in blackface and KKK robe

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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


So you would prefer that we succumb to the racist brainwashing that happened in the United States for the better part of 200 years that suggests that people with dark skin are mentally inferior? I don't get your sentiment.
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2019 14:03     Subject: Re:Ralph Northam yearbook page shows men in blackface and KKK robe

Anonymous wrote:
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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.


The Pacific Northwest rounded up its citizens of Japanese heritage, stole their property and put them in concentration camps. No region is immune from racism in the US.


The Federal Government did that. And it happened there because that is where people of Japanese descent generally emigrated to.
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2019 14:02     Subject: Re:Ralph Northam yearbook page shows men in blackface and KKK robe

Anonymous wrote: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.



It should begin and end with the bolded. Everything else is noise. He should have come public with this himself long ago. He didn't control the message. That is his mistake.
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2019 14:02     Subject: Re:Ralph Northam yearbook page shows men in blackface and KKK robe

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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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.


Yep. Try buying a house in Mercer Island


Try buying a house - or renting an apartment - in white nieghborhoods down south if you’re not white.


Try it in Bethesda.
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2019 14:00     Subject: Re:Ralph Northam yearbook page shows men in blackface and KKK robe

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.


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.


The Pacific Northwest rounded up its citizens of Japanese heritage, stole their property and put them in concentration camps. No region is immune from racism in the US.
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2019 14:00     Subject: Ralph Northam yearbook page shows men in blackface and KKK robe

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Anonymous wrote:So glad I voted for Corey Stewart!

You people! Stewart wasn't his opponent.


You're right... how quickly we forget....
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2019 13:56     Subject: Re:Ralph Northam yearbook page shows men in blackface and KKK robe

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.



If you grew up in the south with that mindset, you are either an octogenarian or an upper class snob.
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2019 13:56     Subject: Re:Ralph Northam yearbook page shows men in blackface and KKK robe

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.


Yep. Try buying a house in Mercer Island


Try buying a house - or renting an apartment - in white nieghborhoods down south if you’re not white.
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2019 13:52     Subject: Re:Ralph Northam yearbook page shows men in blackface and KKK robe

Anonymous wrote:
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.


Yep. Try buying a house in Mercer Island
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2019 13:51     Subject: Re:Ralph Northam yearbook page shows men in blackface and KKK robe

Anonymous wrote:
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.


Why do you say that the PNW is more racist?