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Blackface-gate Continues: Katy Perry Gets Caught in the Controversy and Gucci's CEO Addresses Their 'Mistake'
It’s New York Fashion Week, and the hottest trend isn’t coming down a runway, but almost daily on our newsfeeds. Blame Megyn Kelly, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (or his Atty. General Mark Herring) or the growing number of designer labels accused of cultural insensitivity or flagrant disregard, but we’ve currently got more blackface on our…
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Va. Gov. Ralph 'Coonman' Northam Just Can't Stop Stepping In It, Calls Slaves 'Indentured Servants'
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (aka Governor Moonwalk F. Jackson) was trying to mend his broken image during an interview on CBS This Morning and he attempted to maneuver his way out of one minefield only to step on a live hand grenade. Northam still refuses to step down after website unearthed a photo of a…
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Exclusive: Virginia Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax Speaks Out on Sexual Assault Allegations and His Future in Virginia [Updated]
The top three elected Democrats in the state of Virginia have been mired in controversy for the last week. On Friday, Feb. 1, a medical school yearbook pictures from 1984 surfaced showing two people in blackface and a Ku Klux Klan uniform on Gov. Ralph Northam’s page, as well as showing a racist nickname in…
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You Mean to Tell Me Megyn Kelly Was Right This Whole Damn Time?
Well, 2019 is really showing us some things. As Virginia Democrats desperately search for a white guy who hasn’t donned blackface to maybe be governor—or just not be a whole-ass embarrassment—a Washington Post article from [squints] yup, earlier this week shows that only 58 percent of respondents find blackface “unacceptable.” About one in four Americans…
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Va. Attorney General Admits to Wearing Blackface to Perform Kurtis Blow Rap
I don’t know what’s more puzzling—that Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring (D) once dressed in blackface in college and admitted it, or that Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring listened to Kurtis Blow and knew the lyrics of one of his songs enough to actually perform it in said blackface. It seems that after Virginia Gov.…
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Why White People Love Blackface, Explained
Hey Racist Baby! Why do you look so concerned? Jail? What has your dad done now, Racist Baby? No, Racist Baby. The “PC” is an abbreviation of “political correctness.” It’s a term white people use when they don’t want to be condemned for doing something that offends people. What exactly did your dad do? No,…
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On Well-Intended White Folks: Thoughts on Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam and the Making of a Public Image
Less than eight months ago, after delivering a speech to a room full of educators about teaching strategies to help educators acknowledge and heal from a history of racism in education, I took a seat to hear the Gov. Ralph Northam speak. After expressing his commitment to educational justice, he held my book, For White…
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Instead of Just Saying 'Wowwwww' Like the Rest of Us Men When We Get Caught Lying, Gov. Ralph Northam Refuses to Resign After Racist Picture Surfaces [Updated]
Remember that whole KKK/Blackface/white people white-peopling yearbook photo thing that Va. Governor Ralph Northam got himself caught up in when he broke the Internet on Friday? Now he’s claiming the picture in question—a yearbook photo in which an upstanding citizen in blackface is flanked by another dressed in his finest Ku Klux Klan garments—isn’t him.…
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Va. Governor Ralph Northam Needs To Come Explain This Blackface and KKK Yearbook Photo ASAP [Updated]
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam got some ‘splaining to do after a Virginia newspaper obtained a yearbook photo of the then medical student and two men, one in blackface and the other in a Ku Klux Klan robe and hood, on the same page as Northam. The photo comes from the Eastern Virginia Medical School’s 1984…