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Showing Original Post only (View all)I can't help but think the only reason there's any "controversy" about whether Northam should resign [View all]
is that his wrongdoing involved racism. I have no doubt that if it were any other kind of wrongdoing of comparable degree, many of the people who are fervently circling the wagons around him to protect him from supposedly be mistreated, would be calling for his ouster along with the majority of the party.
W.E.B. DuBois presciently predicted that the problem of the 20th century would be the problem of the color line. But even the brilliant Dr. DuBois might be surprised to see how stark that color line remains nearly 1/5 of the way through the 21st century.
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I can't help but think the only reason there's any "controversy" about whether Northam should resign [View all]
Empowerer
Feb 2019
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White people find it very easy to excuse racism that wasn't a cross-burning or actual personal
WhiskeyGrinder
Feb 2019
#1
One would hope. But if someone's at a party having fun in such a costume, I think it's much easier
WhiskeyGrinder
Feb 2019
#12
Yeah, whatever. A nasty far-right agitprop group called "Big League Politics"
Hortensis
Feb 2019
#14
So, if a right wing website publishes an unaltered photograph of a Democrat engaged in
Atticus
Feb 2019
#38
You know, I seriously wondered about that--the shelf life of this 'controversy'
peggysue2
Feb 2019
#18
And when Fairfax is forced out? And he will be. We are playing into the 'GOP's hands...
Demsrule86
Feb 2019
#29
You don't understand. Once Fairfax is governor, the GOP will force an election for LT governor
Demsrule86
Feb 2019
#33
I posted yesterday a Vox article that outlined exactly what I describe. You think the combined
Demsrule86
Feb 2019
#39
Baloney. The rightwing smear machine is going after Fairfax as well...we don't want to give the seat
Demsrule86
Feb 2019
#28
I say he should be allowed to first prove if he can that it wasn't him in the picture and then to
Demsrule86
Feb 2019
#34
The issue is that he wore blackface, not that he got photographed while doing it
Empowerer
Feb 2019
#37
It was 35 year ago...and he was Michael Jackson. Don't people deserve a second chance?
Demsrule86
Feb 2019
#40