You're not a hero. Northam wasn't actually in the KKK. The fact that the photo was allowed to be included in the yearbook by its collator suggests this wasn't as offensive in 1984 as it is in 2019. This isn't worth ending someone's career.
In 1982, some friends and I in suburban Atlanta waged a campaign to end my high school’s “slave auction,” which featured mock chattel in black face. We were 16. This is two years later, in medical school. He was in his mid-20s.https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/1091475320505618434 …
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It was offensive in 1984.
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Quite obviously it wasn’t offensive to the majority of people in his particular social context at that time.
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Clearly his particular social context at the time was racist.
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Indeed.
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I’m the same age as Northam. Black face and other racist displays were as egregious in the 80s. Northam needs to go.
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Thank you for doing that. It takes guts to go against tradition.
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WOW....
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I remember writing about a mock slave auction fundraiser as a reporter in Orlando in 2003. These are not considered out of the mainstream in many parts of our country.
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