(02-17-2019 11:36 AM)Old Blue Wrote:  

(02-14-2019 05:17 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  

(02-14-2019 05:04 PM)NIU007 Wrote:  

(02-14-2019 04:55 PM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(02-14-2019 04:52 PM)NIU007 Wrote:  I might get crucified for this, but it doesn't seem like painting your face black as part of a costume, for example, for Halloween, should be considered racist. Just my .02. I'm not black either... but if a black person did the same thing to dress up as a white person I couldn't care less. I guess if it was done in the past as a outwardly racist, discriminating gesture, than I can see where it would bother people. Just seems a bit overly PC to me.

Even if blackface is featured on your yearbook page next to a klansman? Was that an outwardly racist, discriminating gesture? Otherwise, I agree with you.

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I guess the way I would look at it is that the klansman character is outwardly racist and that is the issue. If the klansman wasn't there, it wouldn't be racist IMO. Ergo, the blackface by itself should be okay. Of course, if you did the blackface thing and acted like an idiot as part of your "costume" then that would be offensive.

I only think of that because Northam mentioned he had once dressed up as Michael Jackson and I believe he said he did blackface as part of that costume. But that sounded more like a tribute to the pop singer than anything racial.

But like I said, I'm not black so could be missing the boat here...

Klansmen were not "racist" first, as they lynched plenty of white Republicans also.

A fact conveniently left out of all text books. The Klan was the invention of the Democrat party.

Which was basically the equivalent of the Republican party today.

(02-18-2019 11:26 AM)NIU007 Wrote:  

(02-17-2019 11:36 AM)Old Blue Wrote:  

(02-14-2019 05:17 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  

(02-14-2019 05:04 PM)NIU007 Wrote:  

(02-14-2019 04:55 PM)EverRespect Wrote:  Even if blackface is featured on your yearbook page next to a klansman? Was that an outwardly racist, discriminating gesture? Otherwise, I agree with you.

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I guess the way I would look at it is that the klansman character is outwardly racist and that is the issue. If the klansman wasn't there, it wouldn't be racist IMO. Ergo, the blackface by itself should be okay. Of course, if you did the blackface thing and acted like an idiot as part of your "costume" then that would be offensive.

I only think of that because Northam mentioned he had once dressed up as Michael Jackson and I believe he said he did blackface as part of that costume. But that sounded more like a tribute to the pop singer than anything racial.

But like I said, I'm not black so could be missing the boat here...

Klansmen were not "racist" first, as they lynched plenty of white Republicans also.

A fact conveniently left out of all text books. The Klan was the invention of the Democrat party.

Which was basically the equivalent of the Republican party today.

No, the farmer, small businessman, some big business, professionals is still the core of the Republican party.

(02-17-2019 09:22 PM)EagleX Wrote:  

(02-17-2019 09:08 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(02-17-2019 09:01 PM)EagleX Wrote:  just when you think that the GOP in VA is dead and buried, the democrats hand them the resurrection stone.

But why in the hell didn't republican opposition researchers people figure this out before the election? Dropping this information on voters in October 2017 would almost certainly have turned the elections around. So why didn't that happen?

ok, srsly . . . who knows? maybe mining yearbooks for time bombs isn't a mature industry in VA. maybe there was a run on yearbooks that year. maybe it was sort of a blowout to begin with, and no one thought you could mine enough dirt to matter. it didn't come to light until one of his classmates who developed a sudden ax to grind exposed it, so I think you could probably file it under "obscure **** no one thought could be relevant".

I don't think mining yearbooks was a thing until Kavanaugh. The bar has now been lowered to include yearbooks. I wonder when the first middle school yearbook scandal will surface.