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WhiskeyGrinder

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Reply to SweetieD (Reply #9)

Fri Feb 1, 2019, 11:14 PM

Feb 2019

And if I may...

There is no way in hell I would let him take care of my kids medical needs because who knows how he would treat them.

Oh but we do know how the medical community treats black people: Terribly. They are undertreated, their pain is underestimated, and black women are much more likely to die in childbirth than white women, *because of racism.* There's a definitely connection between the photo and the kind of health care black people get in this country.

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Why the Hell are we not giving Northam credit/kudos for changing? [View all] bitterross Feb 2019 OP

He can get those kudos out of office. Meanwhile, we move on without him. manor321 Feb 2019 #1

No wonder we lose. Everyone needs a perfect person bitterross Feb 2019 #10

Yup. Dems strive too hard to be perfect. OliverQ Feb 2019 #18

This is correct. n/t Beartracks Feb 2019 #53

He was 25 years old. LexVegas Feb 2019 #2

So, there's a magic age now? bitterross Feb 2019 #6

You said he was a teenager. He was not. LexVegas Feb 2019 #8

It wasn't a High School a yearbook! people Feb 2019 #3

That makes my point even more valid than if it were a HS yearbook bitterross Feb 2019 #4

So, just "goin' with the flow" is all we expect of our leaders? Finger in the wind determines Atticus Feb 2019 #15

It's not just going w/ the flow if you don't know better. bitterross Feb 2019 #47

I don't believe this is an issue of what people knew, but what they chose to acknowledge Atticus Feb 2019 #54

If the Lt Governor was a Repug, would the call for him to resign be as strong ? Hassler Feb 2019 #5

Will you say the same thing about the CovCatholic twits? 912gdm Feb 2019 #7

He was an adult. Just a couple years younger than aoc now. He knew what he was SweetieD Feb 2019 #9

THANK YOU!!! EffieBlack Feb 2019 #19

THIS. WhiskeyGrinder Feb 2019 #34

He gets nothing angrychair Feb 2019 #11

there is no excuse for what he did but I do feel he changed for the better JI7 Feb 2019 #12

So you never exuse any behavior at all? bitterross Feb 2019 #16

I'm sorry, but your excuses about blackface acceptance sound almost exactly like bullwinkle428 Feb 2019 #13

They are exactly alike. Because they are true. bitterross Feb 2019 #22

Because he did it in 1985, not in 45 or 55. And he was a 25 year old med student -- an adult. pnwmom Feb 2019 #14

NO, not in 1985 in the South. bitterross Feb 2019 #28

I lived in Virginia a few years EARLIER. Good people would have been shocked. n/t pnwmom Feb 2019 #32

So you're saying that it should be held against him for the rest of his life? BlueStater Feb 2019 #30

I think he should have brought this forward BEFORE he campaigned for public office, pnwmom Feb 2019 #33

Fair enough. n/t BlueStater Feb 2019 #37

Kudos? backabby-blue Feb 2019 #17

Pure privilege EffieBlack Feb 2019 #21

I don't know why I am surprised backabby-blue Feb 2019 #31

Are you a perfect human? bitterross Feb 2019 #24

I don't want kudos that's for sure. backabby-blue Feb 2019 #26

People wore blackface without thinking - without thinking. bitterross Feb 2019 #36

You know who always did know blackface was offensive? WhiskeyGrinder Feb 2019 #40

He knew backabby-blue Feb 2019 #42

This message was self-deleted by its author backtoblue Feb 2019 #27

A mistake? Did he get dressed in the dark and put on a klansman costume instead of the WhiskeyGrinder Feb 2019 #29

Why didn't he apologize for this YEARS AGO, like Beto did with his mistakes in college? pnwmom Feb 2019 #35

Beto cannot be forgiven and I hope we are not subjected to any more delisen Feb 2019 #60

He can't be forgiven for one DUI and a hop over a university fence? n/t pnwmom Feb 2019 #64

Of course not, he was an adult at the time. I personally delisen Feb 2019 #69

Yeah that was pretty bad! pnwmom Feb 2019 #71

Dude voted for GWB twice. Republicans in the state senate courted him to switch parties. WhiskeyGrinder Feb 2019 #20

This country "forgave" USSC Justice Hugo Black and no_hypocrisy Feb 2019 #23

They were of a different generation. This was 1984, not 1944 or 1954. pnwmom Feb 2019 #38

I was in Amherst County in the 80s and there was a strong undercurrent of racism. no_hypocrisy Feb 2019 #43

These were smart enough men to be in medical school and their racist display pnwmom Feb 2019 #45

Hell I was in Norfolk in 94 and 95 and it was still bad MrGrieves Feb 2019 #57

Also, I'm sitting here cackling at the idea of giving someone kudos for realizing that dressing up WhiskeyGrinder Feb 2019 #25

Thirty Years Ago.... LovingA2andMI Feb 2019 #39

I agree. Northam is an ally now. Dawson Leery Feb 2019 #41

He voted for George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004. ZZenith Feb 2019 #44

Was he a Republican then? Or a Democrat who didn't like other Democrats? n/t pnwmom Feb 2019 #46

Doesn't make a bit of difference. ZZenith Feb 2019 #50

I can't agree. Cracklin Charlie Feb 2019 #48

I was born in Virginia. I never wore blackface or KKK robes. LexVegas Feb 2019 #49

I'm from the South. I knew it was offensive. I knew it was wrong. I knew it was racist. Solly Mack Feb 2019 #51

Hey. With your edit, I encourage you to take a minute and take a step back. WhiskeyGrinder Feb 2019 #52

Cyndi Hyde Smith just got elected to the Senate aeromanKC Feb 2019 #55

it's the mindset behind the actions...I'm disgusted by the those that pillory him. Demonaut Feb 2019 #56

No. It wasn't THAT different then. I lived in Virginia a few years BEFORE then, pnwmom Feb 2019 #65

true, has he shown his true colors these many years since? Demonaut Feb 2019 #66

It was 1984, for fucks sake. Codeine Feb 2019 #58

Suddenly the Franken matter gains clarity. Sneederbunk Feb 2019 #59

Grew up in the deep red South, roughly same generation, would never in a million years JCMach1 Feb 2019 #61

Authoritarianism is loose in the land and it is not just delisen Feb 2019 #62

I can't help but think a bunch of Russian procon Feb 2019 #63

Nope. He weren't woke. He gone. nt MadDAsHell Feb 2019 #67

Thanks for your "concern." PSPS Feb 2019 #68

This is certainly some food for thought. nt Baltimike Feb 2019 #70

I agree in that no one would change at all treestar Feb 2019 #72