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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsVirginia Sen. Tommy Norment was an editor for VMI yearbook filled with racist photos and slurs
A Virginia Military Institute yearbook overseen by future state Senate Majority Leader Tommy Norment in 1968 features a host of racist photos and slurs, including blackface.
The revelation about one of Virginia's most powerful Republicans comes as the states Democratic governor and attorney general are facing calls to resign over their own admissions they wore blackface as young men.
Norment, R-James City County, was managing editor of The Bomb publication that year. He went to VMI after graduating from James Blair High School in Williamsburg and has been a state senator since 1992.
On one page of the yearbook, a student poses in blackface, surrounded by others in costumes at a party. Another page features a photo of two men in blackface holding a football.
The N-word is used at least once. A student listed as being from Bangkok, Thailand, is referred to as a Chink and Jap.
https://pilotonline.com/news/government/politics/virginia/article_d4ce7700-2ae3-11e9-ace9-ff7814740140.html
The revelation about one of Virginia's most powerful Republicans comes as the states Democratic governor and attorney general are facing calls to resign over their own admissions they wore blackface as young men.
Norment, R-James City County, was managing editor of The Bomb publication that year. He went to VMI after graduating from James Blair High School in Williamsburg and has been a state senator since 1992.
On one page of the yearbook, a student poses in blackface, surrounded by others in costumes at a party. Another page features a photo of two men in blackface holding a football.
The N-word is used at least once. A student listed as being from Bangkok, Thailand, is referred to as a Chink and Jap.
https://pilotonline.com/news/government/politics/virginia/article_d4ce7700-2ae3-11e9-ace9-ff7814740140.html
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Virginia Sen. Tommy Norment was an editor for VMI yearbook filled with racist photos and slurs (Original Post)
demmiblue
Feb 2019
OP
It's almost like...racism is, I don't know, institutionalized, or something.
WhiskeyGrinder
Feb 2019
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Yosemito
(648 posts)1. He gave the green light. He must resign
Immediately.
njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)2. These yearbooks are really coming back to bite people in the ass
Freethinker65
(10,034 posts)3. Be careful what you wish for, Republicans
Yosemito
(648 posts)4. Hes a Republican
I wouldve noted that hes a Republican somewhere in the title, not the body.
Ex Lurker
(3,816 posts)5. VMI was headed by Stonewall Jackson
the entire student body resigned to fight for the Confederacy in the Civil War. They had to be sued to admit women. None of this stuff should come as any surprise.
rogue emissary
(3,148 posts)6. Yes he should resign and watch the Republicans
go quiet. As the purge of those in black face and other acts of overt racism are exposed.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,394 posts)7. It's almost like...racism is, I don't know, institutionalized, or something.
Systemic. Woven into the very fabric of this nation. What will we do with this realization?
MH1
(17,600 posts)10. +1000. nt.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)8. There is more to come . . .
The backfiring on Republicans will be plenty.
demmiblue
(36,875 posts)9. ...