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Note no evidence of his racism is provided and you could not prove it in court. Your party's strategy is to smear GOP as racist even though the racism back in the day in this country was done when Democrats had the power.
You try to conflate your party's history with the GOP which is the party of Lincoln.
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.
You should take your own advice since you were asserting that Northam was racist.
He refused to shake a black man's hand and he was pictured as either in blackface or wearing a KKK outfit. His black running mate's picture did not show up on a lot of his campaign material.
That's 3 data points against him. On top of that, ,he ran ad associating his Republican opponent with wanting to kill black people. That is a sick person. THat was as bad as his racism. He was trying to fearmonger black voters so they had a big turnout for him.
Your evidence of Republican racism is to associate Republicans with Confederate flag support. The Confederate flag actually came down in SC after Republicans took control in the 90s.
He's now saying it wasn't him---that he spoke to classmates who said many of the photos in the yearbook were mixed up! After he admitted it was. And he hasn't addressed the "CoonMan" nickname in his undergrad yearbook. Two yearbooks, two instances that seem highly racist...
Dressing up as kkk or in black-face is not something one forgets. If he dressed up one time, he would know with 100% positivity if that was him in the photo or not. If he dressed up more than once as kkk or in black-face, then it would be reasonable for him to "believe" that might be or not be him in the photo.
The fact tha he chooses to say he "does not believe" in his official semi-denial statement that he is in the photo of a man dressed as kkk and white man in black-face is a dead give-away and proof positive that he has dressed up as kkk or in black- face at least one time in his life. In a round-about way he is admitting guilt.
If he never dressed up as kkk or in black-face, he would not be using the word "believe".
Bottom line is, it doesn't matter if he's in that particular photo or not because now everybody knows that has dressed as kkk or black-face at least one time in his life.
I say forgive him. What has he done since that time? That's what matters. Times were alot different back then and people are products of the environment and times in which they live. President Washington owned slaves and we celebrate him. Nobody blames him for owning slaves because that's how the times were in the 1700's and the environment in which he lived.
People do things when they were young and they regret later. In the 1960's and 1970's, it was not all that much unacceptable when white people were around other white people they would say and do racists things that were intended as a joke to be heard or seen only by white folks.
I do suspect like KKK Robert Byrd, Northam will survive.
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