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Jamil Smith
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Ralph Northam is embarrassing himself. If he was truly convinced that he never dressed as a Sambo or a Klansman and then posed for a photo, he would have known that yesterday. This insults the intelligence of every black voter who helped put him in office. nyti.ms/2DQWD9Y
Demanding that Northam resign is not doing the dirty work of conservatives who targeted him for the abortion bill he signed. Now, it is about mitigating damage. Not for Democrats. For us. Every moment he stays in office furthers a misconception that racism is just about imagery.
It would be convenient for conservatives if racism could be solely captured in a photo or in a word. If racial slights were limited to the easily observable, there could be no targeting the systemic problems that afford so many unearned advantages to the people whom they protect.
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Jamil Smith
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Today’s Super Bowl coverage will feature @POTUS lying to us. All due respect to @margbrennan, but we really don’t need to see or hear Trump say these words to grasp their full meaning. They should stand on their own, independent of his charlatan theatrics. cbsn.ws/2t162FH
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Jamil Smith
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This is extraordinarily racist, and @RalphNortham and his defenders should not use youth to excuse it. Ironically, the conservatives who dug this up may replace him with his black lieutenant, a man who sat out when Virginia paid tribute to Robert E. Lee. wapo.st/2SosKpe
“Racism has no place in Virginia,” said Jack Wilson, chairman of the @VA_GOP. Wilson endorsed Corey Stewart, an actual neo-Confederate for U.S. Senate. “A Senator Stewart would be much better for Virginia and Republicans than a Senator Kaine,” Wilson was quoted saying last July.
If “racism has no place in Virginia,” per the chairman of the state GOP, then why are Republicans in the Virginia Senate continuing to honor Robert E. Lee on his birthday? Why is there only one black statewide official, and why is he alone in his protest? wapo.st/2FJEWu1
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Jamil Smith
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@emarvelous You, to start. And in no particular order, part one of many: @nhannahjones @AdamSerwer @dstfelix @ClintSmithIII @jduffyrice @jelani9 @MHarrisPerry @ProfCAnderson @DrIbram @fivefifths @ethiopienne @zakcheneyrice @theshrillest @jbouie @tressiemcphd @ProfessorCrunk @MorganJerkins
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Jewhadi™
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Northam provides latest shame for sanctimonious Dems bostonherald.com/2019/02/02/car…
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s political career is about to be aborted, although presumably the cracker Democrat is being “kept comfortable” in his final moments as the party elders hold “discussions” about the “tragic and difficult circumstances” in which he finds himself.
Oh wait, those were the very terms the erstwhile Social Justice Warrior had used only hours earlier to describe the infanticide that his party was enthusiastically proposing to legalize in the Old Dominion.
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1) You Have To Smoke Crack If You Are A Democrat….

After a day of running around, I finally had a chance to open up my laptop. I read @WOLFM00N (link below) incredible article not realizing I would witness it with my own eyes when I went on Twitter.

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2) The Governor of Virginia is now claiming it

wasn’t him in the photo in the yearbook. This comes after his apology the day prior.

I don’t smoke crack but this has to be what keeps Democrats believing in a world where up is down and down is up.

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Charlene V. Smith
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I've been thinking more deeply recently (as in this past week) about how I am a product of a system of white supremacy. This is a thread about that, about Northam, about status quo, about white cowardice, and about photos that exist of me in brown face.
I'm actually really scared to write about this, which I think is a key way in which white supremacy maintains its hold. It makes us cowards, by creating a system of authority that lives in your head, even if there is no actual authority that you can pinpoint.
In the world, those who speak out are branded as trouble makers. The theatre industry has had so many exposés lately about bad behavior bc this is doubly true there. Our ability to ever work again is drilled into us from time we start our theatre careers as something we can lose.
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kat calvin
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Heeeeere we go. #northam
Let’s talk about how I will never be this wife.
LOLOLOLOL oh so he’s responsible for the “content” on the page but he never saw it he never even bought a yearbook. It was the one armed man. Okay, Coonman.
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Mona
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Northam is scheduled to have a press conference at 2:30 ET today, he's said that he will NOT be resigning. He's acting like a member of the GOP, and that is the worst possible thing he could do. #NorthamResign #SaturdayThoughts
nytimes.com/2019/02/02/us/…
2-"Gov. Ralph Northam of Virginia, facing intense pressure to resign from fellow Democrats after admitting that he posed for a photo in a racist costume as a medical student more than 30 years ago, was calling state Democrats on Saturday to say he did not think it was him in the
3-"picture and that he would not resign. Mr. Northam, who apologized on Friday night, was increasingly isolated, but in phone calls on Saturday morning he said he had no recollection of the yearbook image of two men, one in blackface and the other in Ku Klux Klan robes.
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Nick Monroe
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Ralph Northam Yearbook Photo
Here's a piece by @howleyreports about it bigleaguepolitics.com/yearbook-ralph…
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