Virginia Political Crisis Grows for Democrats and Republicans

New York Times ^ | Feb. 7, 2019 | Alan Blinder and Jonathan Martin

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RICHMOND, Va. — The political tumult in Virginia widened Thursday as the State Senate’s top Republican faced an onslaught of questions about racist photographs and slurs in a college yearbook that he helped oversee, transforming the Capitol’s nearly week-old crisis into a bipartisan reckoning over personal conduct.

The senator, Thomas K. Norment Jr., who is the majority leader, was the managing editor of the 1968 Virginia Military Institute yearbook, which included images of students in blackface.

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Amazing, isn't it? The absurdity started when panderers and PC maniacs let blacks own the language and the culture. They can use the "n" word; we can't. Black Lives Matter. Blacks are under-represented in some entertainment spheres (no more) but whites can be under-represented in the NBA or for college athletic scholarships. Black and Native portrayals are racist when they're portrayed; racist when they're ignored. A black committing a crime against a white isn't a hate crime. We can't honor any historical figure who was racist by today's standards. And the thought police get to say what's in someone's heart and mind.

It's a destruction of our freedoms and cultures. I keep saying it. Civilization as we used to know it isn't just on its way out; we're way down that slippery slope toward as Sci-Fi like totalitarian post-human world. Folks letting it happen think it's just fine.