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Blackface incident at Post cartoonist’s 2018 Halloween party resurfaces amid protests
Washington Post ^ | June 17, 2020

Posted on 06/18/2020 7:11:34 AM PDT by 11th_VA

Every year, Tom Toles’s Halloween party draws an eclectic mix — journalists and political types from Washington’s power elite, but also artists and musicians, everyone from retirees to college kids, jammed into small rooms and sprawled across the backyard, dancing and gossiping, checking out the crowd to see who has the most inventive and outrageous costumes.

At the 2018 party at the home of The Washington Post’s editorial cartoonist, in addition to several Ruth Bader Ginsburgs, someone dressed as the “Mueller Witch Hunt” and Post columnist Dana Milbank came as just-confirmed Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, complete with a beer-dispensing device on his head. A guest named Lexie Gruber wore a scary “Beetlejuice” get-up and called herself “dead.”

A middle-aged white woman named Sue Schafer wore a conservative business suit and a name tag that said, “Hello, My Name is Megyn Kelly.” Her face was almost entirely blackened with makeup. Kelly, then an NBC morning show host, had just that week caused a stir by defending the use of blackface by white people: “When I was a kid, that was okay, as long as you were dressing up as, like, a character.” ...

On Wednesday, after Schafer informed her employer, a government contractor, about the blackface incident and The Post’s forthcoming article, she was fired, she said...

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: blackface; districtofcolumbia; jeffbezos; lexiegruber; lyricprince; megynkelly; sueschafer; tomtole; wapo; wapoparty; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost
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Wow ... She wore a costume to a party to 'mock' conservatives, and gets fired two years later ... just wow ...c
1 posted on 06/18/2020 7:11:34 AM PDT by 11th_VA
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Sounds good to me. Don’t care.


2 posted on 06/18/2020 7:15:13 AM PDT by wrcase
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The liberals have started eating their own. And the esteemed Washington Post things its newsworthy to post the details of a halloween party that happened two years ago. Its a golden age friends....


3 posted on 06/18/2020 7:16:42 AM PDT by bigdaddy45
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FTA: Gruber felt compelled to revive the 2018 incident. Last week, she emailed Toles, whom she has never met. “In 2018, I attended a Halloween party at your home,” she wrote. “I understand that you are not responsible for the behavior of your guests, but at the party, a woman was in Blackface. . . . She asked him to help her identify the woman.

It's so Maoist! Two YEARS had passed. These people are insane.
4 posted on 06/18/2020 7:19:46 AM PDT by rockvillem
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Use Alinsky: “Make them play by their own rules.”

Alinsky’s rules do work.


5 posted on 06/18/2020 7:19:54 AM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (This is all a communist plan)
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But I’m on your side bro!


6 posted on 06/18/2020 7:25:25 AM PDT by Skywise
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7 posted on 06/18/2020 7:25:43 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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But I’m on your side bro!

I do have to admit, that was one of the most pleasing videos of all time. The 2nd rock payoff was perfect! Those douchbags think there are sides! There is only power!

8 posted on 06/18/2020 7:28:21 AM PDT by Malsua
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Let them burn each other down. When there is RED on RED action, get out of their way.


9 posted on 06/18/2020 7:30:35 AM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (Polls are no longer designed to measure public sentiment but to influence it.)
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Gruber felt compelled to revive the 2018 incident. Last week, she emailed Toles, whom she has never met. “In 2018, I attended a Halloween party at your home,” she wrote. “I understand that you are not responsible for the behavior of your guests, but at the party, a woman was in Blackface. . . . She asked him to help her identify the woman.

Unbelievable! Toles should have told her to go pound sand. But someone at the party would have talked. The woman lost her job... yes she is probably a leftie idiot, but she doesn't deserve that. And shame on her company for firing her. Seems like a lawsuit is in order.

10 posted on 06/18/2020 7:43:40 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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Haha, I was watching the classic 1932 Tarzan the Ape Man on TCM last night. I had to laugh and wondered how long until all copies of this classic are ordered to the incinerator. The African pygmies were pretty cringe-worthy...


11 posted on 06/18/2020 7:49:04 AM PDT by Hatteras
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You think for one minute she would defend you? She absolutely deserved it. No quarter for hypocrites.


12 posted on 06/18/2020 7:51:20 AM PDT by wrcase
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Today the Left is firing their own. Once they consolidate their power, they will be shooting those who used to be their own.


13 posted on 06/18/2020 7:55:32 AM PDT by sport
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Ah, the problems of the lefties. Who’s the purist lefty of them all?


14 posted on 06/18/2020 7:56:53 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrats' John Dean])
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Lol!!!


15 posted on 06/18/2020 7:59:41 AM PDT by 11th_VA (May you live in interesting times - Ancient Chinese Proverb)
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Has anyone noticed or mentioned that the majority of these blackface incidents are RATs and leftists?


16 posted on 06/18/2020 8:03:23 AM PDT by dforest
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from the article -

Gruber said that she and Prince were among only a handful of people of color at the party, and that most of the guests were considerably older. “Lyric and I felt very out of place,” she said.

exclusive, much?

by the way, Gruber looks more pale than this cracker-@zzed white boy...

17 posted on 06/18/2020 8:04:12 AM PDT by goo goo g'joob
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18 posted on 06/18/2020 8:14:27 AM PDT by nwrep
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None of them think they’ll be the first ones marched up to the wall after they achieve their revolution. Until it happens.


19 posted on 06/18/2020 8:27:21 AM PDT by Dr.Deth
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On Wednesday, after Schafer informed her employer, a government contractor, about the blackface incident and The Post’s forthcoming article, she was fired, she said..

She can still get elected Governor of Virginia.

20 posted on 06/18/2020 8:30:23 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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