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Location: Just transplanted to FL from the N GA mountains
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Originally Posted by ChristineVA
I believe so. I think anything going back to the 80s should be given a pass because, as others have better said, there was no PC culture at all. I don't give anyone a pass who is doing such things in the 2000s and there have already been several accounts of that happening with other politicians.
What I want to make clear though is that I'm a little bit undecided about the Northam photo. The Michael Jackson/entertainer stuff back in the 80s was done with good intent and admiration. The blackface/KKK picture is a different thing entirely, in my mind.
Knowing that it was done in college and it depicts at KKK member and a black dude hanging out at a party, sharing a drink, screams to me of frat boy humor. I'm sure they thought it was a RIOT. Even today, when I saw some of the pics my son showed me of a party he went to in college and some of the costumes they were wearing, they were outrageous. College students know better but they think they are invincible and many have and will always push way past boundaries.
Thank you. I can respect that and feel pretty much the same way. If one side expects the other to be "perfect", then they darn well better be that way too. And we all know, that ain't going to happen with the hypocrisy of todays politics.....
Lived for over twenty years in North Carolina and recently moved to Virginia.
And I can tell you that Virginia is in many ways more "Southern" than North Carolina even though it's geographically farther north.
It was a tongue-in-cheek comment. I lived in Charlotte for 12 years and just moved back to Michigan. I currently work in NoVa. I know what you mean, but I'm betting most folks from SC, GA, MS, AL, etc would say "Virginia isn't part of the South". That was my point, just a little good-natured ribbing.
While I am not in favor of black face, there is the 1st Amendment. Also, the P.C. Brigade might as well protest every case of black-face and not cherry-pick it to specific cases.
Ok, let me get this straight. In elementary school black kids dress up as Washington, Jefferson etc. and that's ok. But if a white kid wants to be MLK or Jay Z that is racist. Is that right?
Ok, let me get this straight. In elementary school black kids dress up as Washington, Jefferson etc. and that's ok. But if a white kid wants to be MLK or Jay Z that is racist. Is that right?
To a SJW yes. To everyone else it's absurd. A lil kid can't wear a costume on halloween of someone that doesn't physically match themselves. Ridiculous.
Gene Wilder in Silver Streak, Bob Hope, Benny Hill, Robert Downey Jr. and the list goes on. OMG lmao I am hosting a black face party at my house. Sign up if you want to come. This political correctness is BS.
Al Jolson and Eddie Cantor performed in black face in the Ziegfield Follies, and then in the movies. What would "The Jazz Singer" be without Al Jolson performing "Mammy"?
I mentioned in another post that the first prize winner of the costume contest held at my social club's Halloween party came as a black faced lawn jockey, complete with lantern. No one protested or complained...he brought down the house. I guess there are no SJW members in the club.
While I am not in favor of black face, there is the 1st Amendment. Also, the P.C. Brigade might as well protest every case of black-face and not cherry-pick it to specific cases.
Me thinks you have no idea what the First Amendment even is, or what it does.
Gene Wilder in Silver Streak, Bob Hope, Benny Hill, Robert Downey Jr. and the list goes on. OMG lmao I am hosting a black face party at my house. Sign up if you want to come. This political correctness is BS.
At another Halloween party I attended, one of the gals came wearing a Michelle Obama mask. She won both prizes for scariest and ugliest.
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