"I thought that I was in the photo in the yearbook, but couldn't remember which
one I was. Then I remembered I wasn't in that photo at all, but, I DID dress up
as Michael Jackson and did a "little" blackface for that, but it was Halloween.
Then a friend told me how blackface is offensive and I never did it again.
I'm not resigning."
Addendum - In the interest of full disclosure, the above was not specifically said in the exact manner in which I wrote it.
However, Northam DID in fact, say he did dress up as Michael Jackson and did use blackface.
Nothing I posted is untrue.
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This again? OK, let me give a little anecdote from my life.
In high school for Martin Luther King Day a friend and I dressed up as a Jew and a nazi guard. We had a german shepherd and everything. I can’t remember which one I was, but they did put a picture of us in the yearbook. Times were different then, but I can see how these days the photo can come off as sexist.
The question is should I now resign from my current job now that this picture has been found and posted all over MySpace? The answer is no, because I am unemployed.
indirect76
Level 7
Feb 2, 2019
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What in the actual fuck?
My question is..when was it ever ok to dress up as a Jew and a Nazi?
@patchoullijulie I believe in the 1930s and early 1940s it was acceptable in certain countries to dress as a nazi.
I believe it is acceptable to the present day to dress as a Jew, especially in places like Israel.
@PalacinkyPDX I can’t say because I can’t remember which one I was, but if you’ve ever seen West Side Story then you know the look.
@PalacinkyPDX Oh, my bad. I meant to say The Producers.
I am confused.
A holiday having to do with Civil Rights - and you decided to go to school dressed up as someone that was terribly oppressed and the oppressor?
Jewish people and Nazis were not related to Civil Rights. Or rather not to MLK day.
Just like Jewish folks weren't in West Side Story. Those were Puerto Ricans.
It's worth reading about Civil Rights/The Holocaust/Racism in current times as the problem hasn't vanished.
It went underground and has reemerged in the US when people felt they were safe spouting hate speech again.
@RavenCT No, no, no. You got it all wrong. We were dressed as a sexy Jew and nazi guard. You know, with a dog & everything.
Now there were a few classrooms that were in the basement, but I don’t recall if the picture was take above or below ground.
I grew up in the deep south with cultural racism instilled in me. It took several years as an adult and friends in a different culture who asked me the tough questions that needed to be asked to get rid of that malignancy. But I out grew it in the early 1960s to get rid of that malignancy. But I never attacked a Black person or posed either in blackface or in KKK attire, and Northham did it in the mid-1980s? Not at all acceptable. And the den of that medical school which allowed those pictures to appear in the yearbook also had no character.
wordywalt
Level 9
Feb 2, 2019
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Exactly!
Black face and the KKK are much more offensive generally now than then.....
Dhiltong
Level 8
Feb 2, 2019
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It was 1984 for crying out loud!!!
Blackface and the KKK were just as unacceptable and offensive then, too.
I remember 1984, really well. I was 23. The idea of putting on
blackface, or ANY reason, would have been unthinkable.
Putting on KKK robes would have been equally as abhorrent.
There is no excuse, he was 25 years old. He ought to have known
better, and if he didn't, it was STILL ignorant AF for him to have done
it.
Seriously, NO excuses for this. None.
No, ot really?
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