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Post by maybe on Feb 2, 2019 10:20:42 GMT -6
Northam is embarrassing himself now.
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Post by notblanche on Feb 2, 2019 10:22:37 GMT -6
Northam is embarrassing himself now. I’ve been thinking about you. If you connect with the lt gov, thank him and apologize for me please.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2019 10:23:59 GMT -6
Wait. I thought he already admitted it was him in the picture?
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Post by jkjacq on Feb 2, 2019 10:30:47 GMT -6
I can’t believe he’s dug in.
If it was stupid being stupid, you apologize step down and work towards trying to make amends out of the public spotlight.
This is just racism and white privilege at work.
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Post by enchanted on Feb 2, 2019 10:35:59 GMT -6
Wait. I thought he already admitted it was him in the picture? He did. Statement: In a new stmt, Virginia Gov. @ralphnortham admits it's him in "clearly racist and offensive" 1984 yearbook photo; doesn't resign: “I am deeply sorry for the decision I made to appear as I did in this photo and for the hurt that decision caused then and now."
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Post by enchanted on Feb 2, 2019 10:36:41 GMT -6
So now he's a racist lying liar.
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Post by dc2london on Feb 2, 2019 10:39:33 GMT -6
The "Democrats care more about blackface than about dead babies" hot takes on Twitter are making my blood boil.
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Post by crunch on Feb 2, 2019 10:52:42 GMT -6
So for all of us that were in shock about this yesterday. It says something else huge about his character that he is digging in.
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Post by notblanche on Feb 2, 2019 10:59:30 GMT -6
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Post by sctiger on Feb 2, 2019 11:03:36 GMT -6
Agreed, Northam should resign. I hate that he did this because it seemed like he had a good platform. He was old enough to know better and this shows a huge lapse in judgment. I was reading about Fairfax and I think he would be a great leader to step up and I hope that's what happens.
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Post by doublestuf on Feb 2, 2019 11:03:45 GMT -6
So is this what post-Trump politics looks like? Because he is taking a couple of plays from his playbook...
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Post by notblanche on Feb 2, 2019 11:09:04 GMT -6
Connie Schultz, journalist and wife of Sen. Sherrod Brown
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Post by notblanche on Feb 2, 2019 11:10:17 GMT -6
On a separate note I love this.
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Post by jaygee on Feb 2, 2019 11:12:24 GMT -6
He’s going with “it was a printing mixup”
If I got my yearbook and that was mistakenly put on my page, I would personally track down every copy and destroy them and demand they reprint a new one.
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Post by athn64 on Feb 2, 2019 11:22:27 GMT -6
He’s going with “it was a printing mixup” If I got my yearbook and that was mistakenly put on my page, I would personally track down every copy and destroy them and demand they reprint a new one. OMG at the backpeddling going on here.
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Post by crunch on Feb 2, 2019 11:25:01 GMT -6
So I think there's a chance that photo could have been picked without him submitting it but it's the actions after the fact that make me believe that is not what happened.
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Post by Dr. Cox on Feb 2, 2019 11:26:26 GMT -6
He does not “think” he is in the picture? That tells me he’s done it on multiple occasions then if he’s confused on whether or not that’s him. He needs to fucking go, like yesterday.
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Post by dc2london on Feb 2, 2019 11:26:45 GMT -6
I don't believe him. Maybe I'm being unfair. But I don't.
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Post by Dr. Cox on Feb 2, 2019 11:28:23 GMT -6
He’s going with “it was a printing mixup” If I got my yearbook and that was mistakenly put on my page, I would personally track down every copy and destroy them and demand they reprint a new one. BULLSHIT
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Post by Dr. Cox on Feb 2, 2019 11:29:36 GMT -6
I don’t believe him because he either lied yesterday or lied today and the latter is more likely.
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Post by notblanche on Feb 2, 2019 11:31:12 GMT -6
A printing error doesn’t explain the VMI yearbook.
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Post by enchanted on Feb 2, 2019 11:31:48 GMT -6
I don't believe him. Maybe I'm being unfair. But I don't. His nickname was still a racist slur. You're not being unfair.
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Post by notblanche on Feb 2, 2019 11:32:29 GMT -6
I don’t believe him because he either lied yesterday or lied today and the latter is more likely. Exactly. I don’t believe him for an instant.
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Post by enchanted on Feb 2, 2019 11:32:57 GMT -6
A printing error doesn’t explain the VMI yearbook. Gosh, NB. They're all printing errors. It just keeps happening over and over again. The photo of him dressed as a plantation owner is also a printing error. Poor guy.
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Post by enchanted on Feb 2, 2019 11:33:53 GMT -6
(Sarcasm, in case someone reading in India doesn't see the sarcasm font.)
ETA: Fan-fucking-tastic TOP.
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Post by redbears on Feb 2, 2019 11:57:10 GMT -6
Even if it was an error, clearly he would have noticed it when he first looked at the yearbook in 1984, so what, he didn't care then that an unauthorized blackface picture was on his page??
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Post by notblanche on Feb 2, 2019 12:04:46 GMT -6
A little levity if it didn’t hurt so much
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Post by jkjacq on Feb 2, 2019 12:09:45 GMT -6
A little levity if it didn’t hurt so much My senior year yearbook has a picture of 3 guys in smiley face shirts with a bullet hole thru the forehead. They are holding shotguns. It’s in color This was high school the yearbook committee had adult supervision and it still made it in Two of them are cops, one was an army officer When I said shit was tolerated I wasn’t kidding.
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Post by RajahMD on Feb 2, 2019 12:11:04 GMT -6
Fucking SHENANIGANS.
I don't believe it for an instant. This is him trying to save face as more and more Virginians come out against him.
If he stays, this GA session is going to come to a fucking standstill. Neither side will be willing to work with him. All of Virginia will suffer.
For the good of our amazing Commonwealth, he needs to step his white privileged, racist ass down. Let Justin Fairfax take over.
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Post by crunch on Feb 2, 2019 12:15:46 GMT -6
Fucking SHENANIGANS. I don't believe it for an instant. This is him trying to save face as more and more Virginians come out against him. If he stays, this GA session is going to come to a fucking standstill. Neither side will be willing to work with him. All of Virginia will suffer. For the good of our amazing Commonwealth, he needs to step his white privileged, racist ass down. Let Justin Fairfax take over. Yes exactly. There’s no way we can get stuff done in Virginia if he stays.
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