Posted on 02/07/2019 10:47:17 AM PST by yesthatjallen
Thomas Kent "Tommy" Norment Jr. (born April 12, 1946, in Richmond, Virginia) is the current Republican Majority Leader of the Senate of Virginia. He has served in the Virginia General Assembly since 1992. He represents the 3rd senatorial district of the Virginia Senate, which includes parts of the Virginia Peninsula, plus King and Queen County, King William County, New Kent County and Gloucester County on the Middle Peninsula.
The frag pattern from all of these events is far too complicated to predict.
Through all this....no one mentions Senator Byrd....a ten year member and LEADER of the KKK.
it is what it is...we fought a freakin civil war over this stuff....nothing to see here. its the south.....it is what it is...get over it....50 years ago is 50 years ago......big freakin deal.......i went out 60 years ago on halloween as aunt jemima.....who cares?
“Through all this....no one mentions...”
That there are plenty of potential candidates who have no flaws in their past. However events like this causes people to not even want to venture into the political landscape.
The smell of Democrat desperation.
And just out of curiosity I wonder how many political office holders in Virginia are actually from Virginia... Born and raised?
i guess they’ll go after the printer next, and then the CEOs of the companies that made the paper and ink ...
Wait....isn’t this whataboutism?
Didn’t think it was allowed (so hard to keep track)
That’s it... it’s all the EVIL Republican’s fault!!
CORRECTED
'Northam also attended VMI, graduating in 1981. His yearbook lists his nickname as “Coonman.” He said friends gave him that name, and he’s not sure HE WANTS TO SAY why.'
There, fixed it.
“Several years ago, the school changed its process for reviewing The Bomb, MacInnis said, adding layers of review by faculty advisors and himself. But there’s always tension for overseeing the student-supported publication, he added, because “they’ve got their First Amendment rights.”
That just seems odd to me... The paper is reflection for the yearbook is the reflection of the parent School not of the students that are in it so much... I can’t imagine a corporation that allows its workers to Surf p*** and make comments on video p*** that they’re watching dot-dot. So why would that not apply logically to a yearbook that has a direct impact on people’s perception of the institution from whence it came.
I would have to say that parents and students should not confuse tuition costs as a pass key to do anything you want or say anything you want while Incorporated with that Institution.
As a VMI alum, I can attest that you’ll find plenty of politically incorrect things in a VMI yearbook. Rob Northam’s “Coonman” nickname is unsurprising to me. Everyone picks up a nickname at school, and there’s usually no good reason for it. One of my buddies was nicknamed Coondog and I guarantee you nobody knows why, and it had nothing to do with anything racist. Everyone just called him that. Most nicknames picked up at school were for doing something stupid as a rat (freshman).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95B30ojbTLw
Here’s a flashback from when the American people understood the difference between malevolent racism, and the inherent human tendency to make fun of people in jest.
Sure do miss those days. Can’t believe how much the world has changed since then, and I’m only 57!
"Tell the SJWs to pound sand."
1968!
Those of us who were around back then, with memories of WW2 and Korea justifiably were calling them Japs and Krauts and Gooks.
Even Bugs Bunny was doing it.
We need another big war (and will probably get one with Democrats in power) to bring three spoiled generations back to reality.
But then will snowflakes fight - or surrender
According to the left’s insane logic: Black face is bad but killing babies is good but even better having dead babies with a black face. Absolute crickets from any black Americans as a whole and of course “civil rights” agitators.
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