*WTF*Virginia attorney general Mark Herring, third in line for governor, wore blackface in college

[mr_lebowski]

107. The argument of 'I Grew Up Surrounded by Racists' and never saw Blackface ...

I hate to break it to y'all but there's a reasonable alternative ... to what you are concluding.

First off, the idea that you grew up around cross-burning, hood-wearing, n-word hurling, lunch-counter harassing assholes ... but DIDN'T see 'blackface' ... because everybody just KNEW that was SO horrible that they wouldn't even 'cross that line'? That is tenuous logic at best ... If you'd throw around the n-word to black's faces, you didn't give a shit about offending them ... please!

If you really grew up around that, there's just as much reason to believe that your never 'seeing blackface' was cause it wasn't nearly racist ENOUGH.

IOW, if you went out like that, your racist friends wouldn't have been all 'Right On! Great Racism!' ... they'd have gone ... "Merle, WHAT the HAY-ELLL you dressed up like a N***** FER?!?" Racists didn't do it ... cause there was no reason to do it ... because you weren't showing off your racism by doing so ... you just were pretending to be black, for whatever reason.

Thus, your observations of not seeing it in the South in the 80's doesn't necessarily mean it was considered as highly racist at that time ... as you're arguing. In fact, the opposite ... is fairly logical as well.