Wait… my mom was in school during desegregation, that was way before this if he was in his 20s in the 80s. He might have been isolated in a white bubble but he wasn’t officially segregated unless he’s a lot older than he claims.
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If an unrepentant serial rapist can be a Supreme Court Justice, I don’t see why a untasteful halloween dresser should resign to anything
“On blogs like this there seems to be no difference if someone shoot an unarmed black person or dressed up in a stupid way,” – Bernel
Oh come on. We have two threads to compare on the blog right now and this is clearly not true. I’m not usually that eager to defend a blog but I really hate these kinds of arguments from people who haven’t considered themselves and their own perception as a factor in how something seems to them… and you clearly haven’t. So I’ll share my perception: On blogs like this I often find white men show up to tell people when they are allowed to be angry and when they’re not, and how angry they’re allowed to be… I always wonder why they’re so quick to see that action and attitude as the most sensible. It never is. It never helps. And it never facilitates any kind of understanding.
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Note: that wasn’t my comment, that was someone else’s reply I was replying to.
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Height. Weight. Eye color. Skin tone. You’re better off with these anyway because race could be ambiguous eg. light skinned and dark skinned people could still be described as the same race. I know you probably don’t really mean what you say, but I’m a big believer in answering those kinds of questions with the right answer.
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Oops… that was my mistake. Let me see if I can fix that. There, now I’m just talking to you for… reasons!
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There are a couple of things about this story that truly upset me. One is the “Not again” feeling, the one that says another Democrat with shitty drawers in his closet, WTF. But the other, and this one does make me feel a little small, is that this will allow some right wing asshat to do a victory dance and claim a Dem scalp, which will encourage more of this sort of sifting of the past, as well as allowing some to again push the “Why bother voting, both sides are just the same” which favors Republicans pretty much exclusively. As (I think?) @Melizmatic noted, whiteness is a hell of a drug, and it was (and is) way to easy to disregard the views of minorities who have never, ever found this crap amusing, harmless or in any way excusable. In a kind of delightful irony, after Northam resigns, which I think is a given, Justin Fairfax will step into the gov’s mansion. He is an openly black man.
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That’s the shitty part of this problem. It’s a problem… everywhere… at a time when we need to work together more than ever this problem is making that impossible. That is fucking shit.
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Forgot to add what is to me the final, most outrageous insult in this situation. Our local Republicans are running ads talking about how Northam has to go because “there is no room for racism in the Great Commonwealth of Virginia.” The same party that ran an avowed and proud White Supremacist against Northam in the most recent election. 
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I guess the reason why this is as bad as it is from my point of view lies in the fact that it was unaddressed for decades. It was buried, ignored, left to rot instead in the hopes it would never see the light of day. And that makes it harder to come clean later.
Half credit for coming out and admitting that yes, it was him and showing contrition now, but it’s not enough. All that is left now is to fall on his sword and make room, I guess.
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The voting rights and civil right acts were based in the mid-60s.
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I just believe that there is a point that we can reach where we can have most of the population with at least a marginal chance of having a candidate who is even aware of their needs and interests, and who doesn’t have a history of mocking, deriding, or just outright oppressing them. And, even if we can’t reach that point because humans suck, that’s the only good direction I see to go in.
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Being photographed wearing a MAGA hat now might become a serious liability for people in 30 years.
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Exactly. What was in the news, especially on college and university campuses at the time?
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When dressing up in a “stupid” racist way is considered normal, shooting unarmed black people becomes a consequence. One thing leads to the other.
If I see a toddler leaning out an open window, I don’t wait until they’re entirely upside down and falling before raising the alarm.
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I haven’t heard anyone calling for the governor to go to prison over this, so clearly there is a difference.
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Looks like we all rushed to judgment. His new memory is that he wasn’t in the photo after all and that he’ll continue to serve.
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Next he’ll be saying that it wasn’t his yearbook page. Because 2019.
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