(02-02-2019 08:27 AM)dfarr Wrote:  Stupid picture from his early 20s. I don’t think he should resign though. It was clearly a costume for a party and not a klan rally. If the citizens of VA want to recall him or whatever their constitution allows for, then that’s on them.

It takes an absurd level of stupidity to think wearing a Klan outfit even on Halloween is appropriate or funny. I don't care what age you were at the time, it doesn't really matter.

dude made a stupid mistake and should resign....

(02-02-2019 05:58 AM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  

(02-01-2019 11:59 PM)solohawks Wrote:  Awfully convenient for VA Dems to find a photo like this after their governor promoted infanticide. If I didnt know any better I'd say a decision was made promoting infanticide is a bridge to far for most of America and he would a liability moving forward.

That's not out of the question. Why hasn't this photo been mentioned before? He most certainly was vetted for whatever positions he's held, right?

In 2017 he was an asset to the dems and was protected

In 2019 he is a liability to them dems and "found photos" conveniently pop up

(02-01-2019 10:34 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(02-01-2019 09:52 PM)mptnstr@44 Wrote:  

(02-01-2019 04:51 PM)WKUYG Wrote:  I loved the 80s where it was OK to act stupid and crazy without the world judging your heart or intent. The 90s were OK too but by then I was 30 at the beginning of them...close to being out of doing crazy **** just because it was crazy.

I understand the point of the post and I agree with it in that context. But at some point we are going to have to come to our senses and stop judging people on things they did, in a different world.

Black face and a Klan hood were not ok in the 80s.

Blackface wasn't a big deal until the last few years. KKK was always weird. At least since the 1920s.

Painting up black for a football game might've been ok but Blackface next to a KKK hood has a whole other context and was not OK in Ohio.

Forget the costume, his official nickname in the yearbook was CoonMan. There was never a time in history when that was ok.

(02-02-2019 08:27 AM)dfarr Wrote:  Stupid picture from his early 20s. I don’t think he should resign though. It was clearly a costume for a party and not a klan rally. If the citizens of VA want to recall him or whatever their constitution allows for, then that’s on them.

Northam was in med school this is not an undergrad of 20. He was an adult of 25-26. He should be held accountable for a very poor decision as an adult.

(02-02-2019 10:42 AM)UofMstateU Wrote:  Forget the costume, his official mockname in the yearbook was CoonMan. There was never a time in history when that was ok.

That nickname paired with the costume speaks volumes as the intent behind the costume. #northamsaracist

(02-02-2019 10:23 AM)solohawks Wrote:  

(02-02-2019 05:58 AM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  

(02-01-2019 11:59 PM)solohawks Wrote:  Awfully convenient for VA Dems to find a photo like this after their governor promoted infanticide. If I didnt know any better I'd say a decision was made promoting infanticide is a bridge to far for most of America and he would a liability moving forward.

That's not out of the question. Why hasn't this photo been mentioned before? He most certainly was vetted for whatever positions he's held, right?

In 2017 he was an asset to the dems and was protected

In 2019 he is a liability to them dems and "found photos" conveniently pop up

This actually kind of makes sense. This photo magically appears now? He had to have been fully vetted at some point so this image was probably known. Now the yearbook image is all of the sudden found and outted …conveniently when they want him out of the limelight because of the infanticide comments.
Things that make you go hmmmm.

(02-01-2019 04:51 PM)WKUYG Wrote:  I loved the 80s where it was OK to act stupid and crazy without the world judging your heart or intent. The 90s were OK too but by then I was 30 at the beginning of them...close to being out of doing crazy **** just because it was crazy.

I understand the point of the post and I agree with it in that context. But at some point we are going to have to come to our senses and stop judging people on things they did, in a different world.

I grew up in the 80's and I don't remeber it ever being ok to dress in blackface or a KKK outfit. BTW what kind of medical school would allow those photos to be pubished in the yearbook???

(02-02-2019 10:38 AM)mptnstr@44 Wrote:  

(02-01-2019 10:34 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(02-01-2019 09:52 PM)mptnstr@44 Wrote:  

(02-01-2019 04:51 PM)WKUYG Wrote:  I loved the 80s where it was OK to act stupid and crazy without the world judging your heart or intent. The 90s were OK too but by then I was 30 at the beginning of them...close to being out of doing crazy **** just because it was crazy.

I understand the point of the post and I agree with it in that context. But at some point we are going to have to come to our senses and stop judging people on things they did, in a different world.

Black face and a Klan hood were not ok in the 80s.

Blackface wasn't a big deal until the last few years. KKK was always weird. At least since the 1920s.

Painting up black for a football game might've been ok but Blackface next to a KKK hood has a whole other context and was not OK in Ohio.

You are changing your narrative. Its the KKK hood that was problematic.
Blackface itself was done by liberal comedians on TV just 10 years ago without a single bit of backlash.

(02-02-2019 11:05 AM)bullet Wrote:  

(02-02-2019 10:38 AM)mptnstr@44 Wrote:  

(02-01-2019 10:34 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(02-01-2019 09:52 PM)mptnstr@44 Wrote:  

(02-01-2019 04:51 PM)WKUYG Wrote:  I loved the 80s where it was OK to act stupid and crazy without the world judging your heart or intent. The 90s were OK too but by then I was 30 at the beginning of them...close to being out of doing crazy **** just because it was crazy.

I understand the point of the post and I agree with it in that context. But at some point we are going to have to come to our senses and stop judging people on things they did, in a different world.

Black face and a Klan hood were not ok in the 80s.

Blackface wasn't a big deal until the last few years. KKK was always weird. At least since the 1920s.

Painting up black for a football game might've been ok but Blackface next to a KKK hood has a whole other context and was not OK in Ohio.

You are changing your narrative. Its the KKK hood that was problematic.
Blackface itself was done by liberal comedians on TV just 10 years ago without a single bit of backlash.

Blackface with the KKK hood is the problem. If Northam was painted in black for a football game it wouldn't be.

Don't remember blackface by comedians 10 years ago. Who in the mainstream did it?
I did some quick research and blackface has been done by a few performers since the 1980s but there are only a few.

The only reference I can find to someone performing in blackface in the past 20 years is Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder (2008).

In the 90s I found Dave Chapelle (but it's not the same if the person doing blackface is black) and Fred Travalena, impersonating Eddie Murphy on Live with Regis and Kathie Lee, and Michael Jackson at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards and Jim Varney, in Ernest Goes to Africa (1997)

In the 80s I found Dana Plato, in an episode of Diff'rent Strokes and Elizabeth Taylor, in Young Toscanini (1988) and Flip Wilson, in the 1980 TV special Uptown: A Tribute to the Apollo Theater (but again Wilson is black so the context is different) and "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, while wrestling for the World Wrestling Federation and Marcello Mastroianni, in Miss Arizona (1987) and Peter Allen, impersonating Al Jolson during his 1981-82 engagement at Radio City Music Hall

Based on this list (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_en..._blackface) performers in blackface have been few and far between since the 1960s probably coinciding with the Civil Rights movement.

Blackface is a specific look popularized in Vaudeville. Combined with someone in a KKK hood it was meant to be racist and would've been taken as so in 1984.

(02-02-2019 11:34 AM)mptnstr@44 Wrote:  

(02-02-2019 11:05 AM)bullet Wrote:  

(02-02-2019 10:38 AM)mptnstr@44 Wrote:  

(02-01-2019 10:34 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(02-01-2019 09:52 PM)mptnstr@44 Wrote:  Black face and a Klan hood were not ok in the 80s.

Blackface wasn't a big deal until the last few years. KKK was always weird. At least since the 1920s.

Painting up black for a football game might've been ok but Blackface next to a KKK hood has a whole other context and was not OK in Ohio.

You are changing your narrative. Its the KKK hood that was problematic.
Blackface itself was done by liberal comedians on TV just 10 years ago without a single bit of backlash.

Blackface with the KKK hood is the problem. If Northam was painted in black for a football game it wouldn't be.

Don't remember blackface by comedians 10 years ago. Who in the mainstream did it?
I did some quick research and blackface has been done by a few performers since the 1980s but there are only a few.

The only reference I can find to someone performing in blackface in the past 20 years is Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder (2008).

In the 90s I found Dave Chapelle (but it's not the same if the person doing blackface is black) and Fred Travalena, impersonating Eddie Murphy on Live with Regis and Kathie Lee, and Michael Jackson at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards and Jim Varney, in Ernest Goes to Africa (1997)

In the 80s I found Dana Plato, in an episode of Diff'rent Strokes and Elizabeth Taylor, in Young Toscanini (1988) and Flip Wilson, in the 1980 TV special Uptown: A Tribute to the Apollo Theater (but again Wilson is black so the context is different) and "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, while wrestling for the World Wrestling Federation and Marcello Mastroianni, in Miss Arizona (1987) and Peter Allen, impersonating Al Jolson during his 1981-82 engagement at Radio City Music Hall

Based on this list (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_en..._blackface) performers in blackface have been few and far between since the 1960s probably coinciding with the Civil Rights movement.

Blackface is a specific look popularized in Vaudeville. Combined with someone in a KKK hood it was meant to be racist and would've been taken as so in 1984.

I don't remember who did it, but it was mentioned on this board sometime in the last month or two. It might have been Downey or it might have been someone else.

Again, its not the blackface itself, its the KKK hood that makes it tasteless and poor judgement, even in satire (for example if the guy in blackface was the one with the rope in his hands).

[NSFW] NOT EVEN CLOSE





when times were simpler and sense o' humor existed....

disclaimer: more 'n' bombs than a mel brooks movie

"I love all people, 'cept the chinks"

gang bang humidor in the house from a jew...

Normally I'd chalk this down as politics, but the guy also refused to shake his black opponents hand in 2013 and last year sent out a mailer with the white attorney general, but erased the black lieutenant governor out of the picture. Politics aside, this guy might actually be a racist.

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(02-02-2019 03:23 PM)EverRespect Wrote:  Normally I'd chalk this down as politics, but the guy also refused to shake his black opponents hand in 2013 and last year sent out a mailer with the white attorney general, but erased the black lieutenant governor out of the picture. Politics aside, this guy might actually be a racist.

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That very well could be true..I know nothing about him other than comments I read on this board.

My whole problem with these got you type of photos or comments from many years ago and it goes for both sides....

a person can do something that looks racist 30 years later, if you view it in that context. The same can be said for the other triggers, that trigger people today.

30 year in the future I hope we are not still triggered by ever little thing taken out of context. If so those pointing fingers today...are in trouble because most seem to live their life on line. They just dont realize their stupidity might just be used against them. My hope is that people can get to the point of laughing at stupid, silly, ****, and comedy and realize everything isn't done to offend or put others down.

The world needs to lighten up

(02-02-2019 04:40 PM)WKUYG Wrote:  

(02-02-2019 03:23 PM)EverRespect Wrote:  Normally I'd chalk this down as politics, but the guy also refused to shake his black opponents hand in 2013 and last year sent out a mailer with the white attorney general, but erased the black lieutenant governor out of the picture. Politics aside, this guy might actually be a racist.

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That very well could be true..I know nothing about him other than comments I read on this board.

My whole problem with these got you type of photos or comments from many years ago and it goes for both sides....

a person can do something that looks racist 30 years later, if you view it in that context. The same can be said for the other triggers, that trigger people today.

30 year in the future I hope we are not still triggered by ever little thing taken out of context. If so those pointing fingers today...are in trouble because most seem to live their life on line. They just dont realize their stupidity might just be used against them. My hope is that people can get to the point of laughing at stupid, silly, ****, and comedy and realize everything isn't done to offend or put others down.

The world needs to lighten up

I get what you're saying, and I generally agree, but this looks really bad. Granted, I was born in the 80s, so I'm not an authority on what would have come across as racist back than, but dressing in either black face or as a klansman seems like it would have fit the bill.

(02-01-2019 11:33 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(02-01-2019 10:41 PM)stinkfist Wrote:  

(02-01-2019 04:51 PM)WKUYG Wrote:  I loved the 80s where it was OK to act stupid and crazy without the world judging your heart or intent. The 90s were OK too but by then I was 30 at the beginning of them...close to being out of doing crazy **** just because it was crazy.

I understand the point of the post and I agree with it in that context. But at some point we are going to have to come to our senses and stop judging people on things they did, in a different world.

the board should get a kick out of this story....

not only did I have to fend off the rednecks (born in StL, 9 yrs.,later I get 'drugged' down to little house on the fk'n prairie), but me and the baddest black kid got into it straight out of the gate for a variety of reasons one day during recess....

the coolest part about that story is our BB 'corch' (an affectionate term 'corch we used) was also the playground chaperon that day....

he told everyone to stfu, disappeared into the gym, walks back out with two pair of boxing gloves, told us to "git after it until one gets their arse whooped"

corch was black too....

I learned two valuable lessons that day.....both that I still cherish 44 yrs. later....

everybody makes mistakes along the way...the ones that learned plotting along the path are the ones that understand the value of the lesson....

You probably also learned to keep your hands up and move! Either that or you learned what your blood tasted like when it drained into your mouth.

Haha. I learned that if hit square in the lower jaw your lower mandible will hit a nerve that "resets"your brain. I tunneled almost to blackout but not quite.

Lol