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In reply to the discussion: Since we no longer care about doing the right thing, let's talk about math and black women [View all]maxrandb
(17,144 posts)How dare you say that people that don't want to destroy Ralph Northam's entire career "don't care about white men wearing black face".
That's like saying since someone didn't think Bill Clinton should be removed from office, they don't care about people cheating on their wives and workplace sexual harassment.
That's the kind of 3rd Grade level argument that Retrumplicans put in a little children's Pop-Up Book and recite on the Sean Hannity show everyday. It's frankly beneath us.
No, in my case, the argument is NOT that I don't care about white men wearing black face. It's that I care that we don't ruin someone's life over a stupid incident 35 years ago.
My argument is that maybe, what Ralph Northam has done for the 35 years since then, ought to matter. Not that a stupid thing 35 years ago doesn't matter, but that the 35 years should as well.
My argument is that Ralph Northam's policies are more indicative of the man he is today than the moron he was 35 years ago.
My argument is that Ed Gillespie (Northam's Retrumplican opponent) going on the Sean Hannity show to tell us Virginians in Richmond that they were about to be overrun by scary groups of "brown-skinned" MS13 gang members who were going to rape all the white women, is more indicative of the man he is TODAY!
Have you never forgive someone who has harmed you?
None of that is to excuse his stupidity. I'm not a minority, so I can't ever understand how much this hurts and disgusts on a visceral level.
But I do know this. There is nothing...ABSOLUTEL NOTHING...in Ralph Northam's policies, work as a doctor, Army Surgeon and family life that gives even the most remote indication that he is a racist. In fact, every indication and evidence is that he is the opposite of that.
But the thing that is most offensive about your post is the threat that African American Woman will "punish" the Democratic Party if Northam doesn't resign, of if people decide that they are going to forgive him.
I can't think of anything more bigoted than to suggest that African American voters are some type of monotheistic group that would deliver our country to the hands of the Retrumplicans over a 35 year old photo in a worthless college yearbook.
Is that really what you're saying; "Give us Northam or the country get's it"?