The NAACP rep was making me feel personally embarrassed.
The number of inarticulate mothafuckas in positions of power triggers me.
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Breaking: VA Gov Northam's Yearbook Shows Him in Either Blackface or KKK Hood
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The number of inarticulate mothafuckas in positions of power triggers me.
Who is the emissary of the black people these days to absolve the racists of their sins?
I find it hard to believe that no one in the democratic party in Virginia didn't know about this before hand, and subsequently, some higher ups on the national scale. Can't blame people for congratulating him since they didn't know, however.
Lol wut? Every single democrat was pleased for his win. That means every single democrat who saidf anything positive about Northam or his win is now ineligible or tainted? WTF?
Republicans are still literally aligned in strained lockstep behind a guy who has openly promoted White Supremacy.
A couple of Repubs have suggested King should resign. Every single Dem I've heard speak about it, except one this morning before the conference has called for him to resign. And King has been doing it for decades. We're 24 hours into Northam.
Kamala is the Dem MOST out ahead of this. She called on him to quit immediately last night. Kamala already has POSITIVES on this incident. She's better off worrying about her law and order shenanigans.
Independents, middle of the country, people with insane purity tests and are easily swayed, etc.
Some of you act like Republicans are the only ones who think irrationally. Guilt by association is a thing, proven frankly by a lot of folks on this thread who called out Booker for, God forbid, waiting until late evening to say something.
Why do you think Kamala got out so far ahead of this? Yes, it's the right thing to say and do, but she also stands to lose the most the longer this drags on, IMO.
There were *plenty* of folks in this very thread upset that it took so long for Booker to say something last night. You tell me.
Explain how it's irrelevant. How is context irrelevant? SHE CALLED ON HIM TO RESIGN! Seriously you're ignoring everything to push some narrative that doesn't exist.
A black woman stands the most to lose when some white dude has a photo of him in blackface shown to the public. Do I have this right? Speaking of irrationally...
Talk about irrelevancies..
We still need to figure out who that reported is associated with. It was clearly a question to lighten the situation.
This was the part of this whole thing that disgusted me the most. And you know why? Because it gave away, plainly, that no POC were a part of crafting this "statement" of his.
Because only a group of privileged white people completely divorced from the seriousness or ramifications of racism would think that right then, and right there, was the appropriate moment for a feel-good chuckle over the cumbersomeness of using shoe polish for blackface.
I mean, my god.
Because.... she endorsed the guy who had secret blackface over the guy running an actively racist campaign? The only reason this could "hurt" her is if you're in full bitch-eating-crackers mode towards her.
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...Even though she was the first big-name contender to demand his resignation.
How would this in any way, shape, or form hurt a black woman who has called for the racist's resignation and herself has been a victim of prejudice in this country and can speak about the harm of racist practices like blackface? And as stated, she obviously had no idea about this photo in November 2017.
It takes some mental leaps to assume she or her campaign would be damaged by this.
This is either another piece of shit or a brilliant strategy to get this moron to do the moonwalk in his apology presser.
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If you would have shown me those pictures out of context and told me they were from 1984, I wouldnt believe you
I think you said enough.
that sounds meaner than I intended. I just wanted to close the loop with a pun
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I mean, would you really be surprised if a racist who does blackface had the "They all look alike" mentality?
To be fair, it can sometimes be hard to remember the names of relatively unknown artists.
For someone that feels so regretful about it, he seems to have pretty fond nostalgia for it.
I know he was probably super nervous and all, but that part really cracked me up.
"I'm not racist, I just really love... what's his name? The singer? Oh yeah Michael Jackson! [turns to his wife and whispers, 'that's his name right...?']"
Fucking lol
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This was his chewing the scenery moment. Like, ok bruh tone it down.
I have continued to think that a messaging and crisis PR agency called, "YOUR PEOPLE SUCK" that gives common sense, "here's what you SHOULD do" advice for social media and statements or actions, before working down to "you ignored our advice, so here's the best you can make of it but we warned you."
And basically I could staff it by assembling a room filled with random people with a halfway decent education and throwing out a few bouquets over my shoulder. Whoever catches them is probably qualified to do a better job than most politician's or celeb's teams.
And basically I could staff it by assembling a room filled with random people with a halfway decent education and throwing out a few bouquets over my shoulder. Whoever catches them is probably qualified to do a better job than most politician's or celeb's teams.
Imagine if she was sick today and couldn't make it.
We would have had a sitting gov who either did blackface/kkk hood moonwalk on live tv. During black history month. After making a black shoe polish joke.
If Northam talked it over with T'Challa, I think we blacks gotta let this go.
We forgive you, Gov.
We forgive you, Gov.
The second day of Black History Month already putting the first to shame, I see. Hopefully Sunday brings a resignation but it's probably going to be him at a press conference telling reporters "no, that's not me in the 1985 picture of a lynching holding a sign saying 'My name is Ralph Northam' I have already apologized and put this terrible sequence of events behind me and am ready to get back to work doing what is right for the people of Virginia including minorites"
Like, are we being trolled? What even is this?
Like, are we being trolled? What even is this?
At this point it would have looked better if his wife was at the podium and he was behind looking disgruntled
Yea but she doesn't look like she can moonwalk.
Lmao he tried moonwalking his way out of racism. I just can't
Alternatively if we are to believe the groups who criticized him during his lead up to the election, the people surrounding him are simply just very white and somehow have as big of a set of blinders as he does. Honestly who the fuck are his advisers anyway? Fire them too.
he's just trying to seem relateable to the everyday man. At the end he's going to pull out a CRT and play Lil Dick - Freaky Friday
someone should have told him watch "Fyre Fruad" so he could have hired FuckJerry to write up his responses
I kind of wish the end of the conference would have just been him moonwalking off the stage in the middle of questioning.
The way he talked about the shoe polish thing made it seem like he'd done it multiple times. And had learned from practice not to use too much shoe polish when doing blackface. He is definitely a complete racist and a moron.
Can't believe he hasn't resigned yet.
Can't believe he hasn't resigned yet.
Physician, first do no harm.
And let's not pretend there aren't frats and sororities CONTINUING to pull this shit.
Have you guys considered that Ralph's moonwalk is so fucking sick that he would have cured racism right then and there? Geez give the guy a break.