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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAt VMI, you write and submit your own yearbook summary, the nicknames and the "personal" picture.
How do I know? I went there.
Northam knows what Coonman means. He wrote it.
underpants
(182,878 posts)Nothing against VMI mind you but those were way more formative years than when he was at EVMS
Stinky The Clown
(67,818 posts)bullwinkle428
(20,630 posts)Orangepeel
(13,933 posts)The yearbookwith the blackface/klan photo was med school
LexVegas
(6,094 posts)Stinky The Clown
(67,818 posts)doompatrol39
(428 posts)....Since last week I've done an informal, anecdotal check on this and literally everyone I spoke to out of close to 100 or so had the same situation. Seniors (both in high school and college) chose their yearbook pictures and wrote their own "blurbs" or thank yous or whatever they were called.
And you are not the first person to confirm that VMI and colleges, med schools and others do this as well. The people being willfully obtuse about this are starting to get pathetic and annoying.
It also pisses me off that people are comparing this to Franken. No, sorry. Franken has always been a tireless defender of progressive causes and a staunch Democrat. Northam was a Republican until roughly 10 years ago. Sorry, but I'm not going to the mat to defend this guy of all people, especially since it's clear that he knew exactly what he was doing, and despite what some hyperbolic folks on here have been saying he hasn't exactly been a tireless champion for racial justice.
At least Robert Byrd owned up to his youthful mistakes and spent the rest of his life making up for it. Northam as an opportunist and nothing more.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,711 posts)greymattermom
(5,754 posts)These pages are just ads to support the yearbook. The content comes from the person featured in the page.
njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)If he cared about the feelings of black people he would have owned up to this shit a long time ago
lillypaddle
(9,581 posts)WTF? All this time I thought they were saying, "cool man." Couldn't figure out why this was a wink-wink nod thing. NOW I get it. Poor old deaf lady.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)I was the editor of yearbook. I had the duty of overlooking all layouts and pages. They had to meet my approval before going to print. If I were to come across something as offensive as this, I wouldn't have let it go to print.