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EffieBlack

(14,249 posts) Sat Feb 2, 2019, 02:03 PM Feb 2019

I often joke that some people refuse to admit someone's racist unless they're caught in a Klan hood [View all]

Now we have a photo of a man in a Klan robe and hood (or in blackface hanging out with the guy in the Klan robe and hood) and we're getting, "That was 35 years ago and it doesn't really mean anything and he was only 25 and he could have just been joking and besides that's just one picture - what other evidence do you have that he was a racist?"

Is it just me, or is anyone else tired of chasing the goalposts all over the field?

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I often joke that some people refuse to admit someone's racist unless they're caught in a Klan hood [View all] EffieBlack Feb 2019 OP

Yup. cwydro Feb 2019 #1

35 years ago I was a white, suburban teenager..... doompatrol39 Feb 2019 #2

This was still surprising. spicysista Feb 2019 #3

I think a lot of people don't understand the visceral reaction people have MineralMan Feb 2019 #4

I witnessed the Klan burning a cross as a child EffieBlack Feb 2019 #7

The site of KKK members makes me very angry, not fearful. MineralMan Feb 2019 #8

If racism is only klan hoods and cross burning, then lots of white people can believe they aren't WhiskeyGrinder Feb 2019 #5

DU Gaslighting crazytown Feb 2019 #6

Agreed BlueIndyBlue Feb 2019 #9

According to CBS news... nicknames listed underneath his name. One of them was "Coonman," rpannier Feb 2019 #10

He said two students a year ahead of him called him that nickname, but he didn't know why. WhiskeyGrinder Feb 2019 #11

Now he's saying that wasn't HIM -- HE only dressed up as Michael Jackson that year, complete pnwmom Feb 2019 #12

Not to question anyone's righteous indignation, but ashling Feb 2019 #13

Will his own words do? namahage Feb 2019 #15

When I was 11, we (little brother) encountered a "rally". akraven Feb 2019 #14