Posted on 02/03/2019 9:57:55 AM PST by Pelham
Now this…
Photos of Northam at medical school show him standing with a man in the same plaid pants as the KKK-blackface photo.
Here is a Northam friend in the plaid pants in a regular college shot — And then in the blackface shot.
The pants were featured in another Northam college shot.
Ralph Northam is on the left.
But the man on the right is wearing the same plaid pants as the blackfaced fellow in the yearbook.
"Keith Matthews is the plaid pants. Northam is taller than him. He can't be the KKK guy. Whatever. I just roll with it. Drama for them is fine by me."
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
The sportcoat could somewhat minimize the narrow shoulders effect.
This whole photo thing is to get his post-abortion statement blunder out of the headlines. Convenient how this blew up at this time when the yearbook photos have been out there for 30+ years.
This whole photo thing is to get his post-abortion statement blunder out of the headlines. Convenient how this blew up at this time when the yearbook photos have been out there for 30+ years.
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BINGO — The DNC politburo not only wants to get the post-abortion statement HONESTY out of the headlines now, they definitely don’t want the governor to be around in 2020 where he could be used to remind folks of what the ‘RATS are really trying to advance on their abortion front.
I don’t care if Northam is a Democrat or Republican. Everyone has done stupid things in their youth, well almost everyone. To hold something that happened over 30 years ago against you today is ludicrous in my book. We could easily weed out most members of congress if we found out some of the things they did in their teens and 20s. Northam should be held accountable for his view on abortion, the murder of children, not a blackface skit of long ago.
“Northam should be held accountable for his view on abortion, the murder of children, not a blackface skit of long ago.”
Absolutely. Positively. It’s a Bizarro World when a Halloween costume is more evil than killing babies.
For those who don't mind empowering the Left as our national thought police then blackface is what matters.
Al Jolson, Stephen Foster get to be unpersons in the new, sanitized America.
One should never underestimate the ability of Americans to absorb cultural marxism and think it's a good thing to demonize the past.
http://exhibits.lib.usf.edu/exhibits/show/minstrelsy/jimcrow-to-jolson/blackface
"The History of Minstrelsy: From Jump Jim Crow to The Jazz Singer"
"While some today assume that minstrelsy’s blackface has roots in the American South because of the genre’s focus on black degradation and slavery, minstrelsy was born and evolved initially in the North."
"For the majority of whites living in the pre-Civil War North, slavery and black people were a distant reality, one that evoked mixed emotions. If slavery was the commodification of black labor, minstrelsy, with its focus on presenting authentically black songs and dances, was the commodification of black culture. However, the depictions of blacks in minstrel performances were exaggerated, dehumanizing and inaccurate. Instead of representing black culture on stage, blackface minstrel performers reflected and reinforced white supremacy."
"After emancipation in 1865, African American performers, seeing minstrelsy as an opportunity for advancement, contributed a humanizing element to their portrayal of blacks even though they also performed in blackface. Black performers during the Jim Crow era combined blackface with the newly popular genre of vaudeville and brought a black political agenda to their stage performances. During the 1930s, minstrelsy lost its widespread popularity to jazz but could still be seen in aspects of American society such as film. The popular film The Jazz Singer (1927) was about a white man wanting to become a blackface performer and featured Al Jolson, the most well-known performer of the decade. At the time, the film was the biggest earner in Warner Bros., and its success indicated that the age of minstrelsy in American history was far from over. Even in the twenty-first century, the racial stereotypes derived from minstrel shows can still be seen in popular culture."
“I don’t care if Northam is a Democrat or Republican. Everyone has done stupid things in their youth, well almost everyone. To hold something that happened over 30 years ago against you today is ludicrous in my book. “
As long as everyone is willing to cave in the face of politically correct thought police your common sense won’t rule the day. It’s going to take grassroots America saying “enough!”
We’ll all have a hearty laugh when we find out it not only wasn’t Northam in the clan suit, but it was a black man - maybe even one of those pictured in the car pix that he was friends with
In the 80s we could still laugh at ourselves. 30 years later, everything is hatefully criticized by a minority that is being migrated into political insignificance by their own party.
Al Jolson, Stephen Foster get to be unpersons in the new, sanitized America.
If “Coonman” is not in this picture, why is it on his yearbook page? Elementary, is it not? Oh, now he will say, “It’s on my page because I took the picture.” Ha!
Lyin’ sack of shit in a Klansman’s robe! = “coonman Northam.
” but why did he say, at first, that he was in that picture?”
He concedes to have worn blackface when dressing up as Michael Jackson. Maybe he assumed that that is what this picture had captured and he didn’t look closely at it until the whole thing blew up into a major controversy.
I expect there were more than one pair of plaid pants on campus then. Why couldn’t Northam have had a similar pair?
“He’s an innocent victim of circus pants.”
“Circus pants, they’ll get you every time.” My favorite expression.
“I”d say the man is innocent. If it wasn’t him, then he should stand up to these basta*ds and not step down.”
He is still in favor of murdering and dismembering 9 month old human beings.
The history stripping won’t stop. People think that charges of racism will stop at the point where they think it should. But the charge is infinitely malleable, which is why those who play with it are playing with fire.
George Washington was perhaps the largest slave owner of his day. Jefferson was in a similar position. Even Abe Lincoln will come under fire. People who think that they are immune to attack are sadly mistaken. It’s already started.
Dems/commies need to play by the same rules they force on everyone else.
He wakes up one day and wham, his worst moment is in every paper on every site. Good times.
Occam’s Razor. His close friend owned such a pair and was photographed wearing them. There is no photographic evidence that Northam ever had such a pair.
Many things are “possible”. Fortunately that’s not how our rules of evidence work.
Northam could have done anything, unless it could be proven to be impossible.
And of course that same standard could be applied to any of us, meaning that our sole defense is reduced to proving that a charge made against us is impossible to have occurred.
“Until the dems stop libeling the US as a racist country and falsely accusing their enemies as racist because of disagreement, I’m happy to see their own weapons turned against them.”
As Shakespeare said: “hoist on their own petard”.
A petard, BTW, was a gunpowder based bomb.
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