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View Poll Results: Should Northam Resign?
Yes, he clearly has a problem and has lost credibility 98 71.53%
No, Democrat leaders in VA are right, he has a great current track record that speaks more than his past 39 28.47%
Voters: 137. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 02-07-2019, 09:06 AM
 
Location: deafened by howls of 'racism!!!'
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here is a surprising claim via associated press:

"As recently as 2013 or 2014, students who attended Eastern Virginia Medical School — the same one as Northam — were still posing in Confederate garb for the yearbook"

https://wtop.com/virginia/2019/02/bl...story/slide/1/
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Old 02-07-2019, 09:09 AM
 
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here is a surprising claim via associated press:

"As recently as 2013 or 2014, students who attended Eastern Virginia Medical School — the same one as Northam — were still posing in Confederate garb for the yearbook"

https://wtop.com/virginia/2019/02/bl...story/slide/1/
This was also interesting from your link:

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A separate photo found in a 1983 UVA yearbook shows an unidentified student dressed up for a Halloween party wearing a blackface mask, a white hooded sheet and a noose around his neck, conjuring up an image of black lynchings.
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Old 02-07-2019, 09:12 AM
 
Location: deafened by howls of 'racism!!!'
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This was also interesting from your link:
that's kind of a schizo combination. blackface and a white hood and a noose around his neck?
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Old 02-07-2019, 09:16 AM
 
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that's kind of a schizo combination. blackface and a white hood and a noose around his neck?
Maybe he/she was a ghost of a previously hung person?
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Old 02-07-2019, 12:25 PM
 
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NICE job of conveniently ignoring the allegation made by Kavanaugh's college roommate that Kavanaugh lied under oath to Congress, an allegation Republicans refused to investigate.
Any Democrat could have initiated an investigation, but they did not...Why? Because he did not commit perjury and that is the only thing they could investigate him for.
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Old 02-08-2019, 04:49 PM
 
Location: Greenville SC 'Waterfall City'
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Spare us with this stuff. Anybody with a brain knows what happened. If you guys were seriously outraged about the democratic racism "back in the day" you'd be getting Ben Tillman's name off the most famous building on your beloved Clemson campus because he was one of the worst of the worst of the democratic racists.

But since the GOP in South Carolina is nothing but the great grandchildren of the Ben Tillmans of that era you would go to the mat defending Tillman's name stay on the building.
The only people who can remove the name is the Clemson Board of Trustee who I suspect are majority Democrat. The only reason you assume they are Republican is you are a liberal partisan Democrat. Just b/c SC is majority Republican doesn't mean the Clemson board is a majority Republican.

Most people who don't want the name change are not racist. It has nothing to do with wanting to honor Tillman who has been dead for over 100 years.

I have no problem with the building name being changed. It is funny how you think you know what I think. You got yourself a fancy mind reading machine there., partisan liberal Democrat person.

It is crazy how much you talk about Clemson on here given you have no connection to the school. It is weird to me you even know the name of a building at Clemson much less virtue signal about it.

SC flipped to Republican because of transplants who moved here as it industrialized. SC's population is around 10 percent of the population it had at the end of the Civil War. To say we are all grandchildren of Tillman could not be true. Even if we are the grandchildren of Tillman, that doesn't we are racist.

I note this has nothing to do with the topic which is about a racist Democrat. You'd rather talk about a dead Democrat and link him to the GOP even though his views on essentially every issue were similar to FDR and other New Dealers. Nobody would ever confused Pitchfork Ben Tillman with Ronald Reagan. Most of the white racist Democrats back in the day were FDR New Dealers which makes it hard to believe they would flip to GOP.

Your theory that racists flipped to GOP is baseless. GOP does not have racist policies and it would make no sense for the GOP to embrace white racism AFTER popular support for it dwindled. SC isn't anything like it was during TIllman's day.

AL Gore's father was a racist Senator who along with with another Democratic senator Robert KKK Byrd filibustered the 1960's civil rights legislation. Neither of them switched to GOP. By your own logic, Al Gore was a racist. GOP would have never nominated the son of a segregationist.

Bill Clinton's mentor in Arkansas was the former segregationist Democratic Senator William Fullbright. Clinton awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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Old 02-08-2019, 07:09 PM
 
Location: Spring Hope, NC
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I will guess the one in the White outfit is a Woman.
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Old 02-08-2019, 08:40 PM
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Location: New York Area
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I find the whole issue of "blackface" and Klan uniforms to be tiresome. They are not what is preventing minority group members from succeeding. Lack of emphasis on education, work and teen pregnancies do the damage.
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Old 02-08-2019, 08:43 PM
 
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I'm waiting for the ridiculous photos of a black politician in white-face so we can all declare "welp, time for him to retire! Unacceptable!"
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Old 02-08-2019, 08:46 PM
 
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You know Al Jolson (Jew) started the whole "black-face" thing with that ridiculous movie. So yeah, we all know who-who-who to blame for that one lol.
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