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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJust checked all my Yearbook pages...
No offensive comments or photos; no references to "boys will be boys" behavior (in part because there wasn't any). And I graduated from Grad School the same year Northam graduated from Med School.
It wasn't hard.
Renew Deal
(81,899 posts)brooklynite
(94,974 posts)What I didn't do was get blackout drunk, drive while intoxicated, throw up in someone else's bathrooms, etc.
Also, no sexist, racist, xenophobic costumes.
How about you?
Renew Deal
(81,899 posts)But not as much as Northam and Kavanaugh. Maybe its a generational thing.
MiniMe
(21,724 posts)And a friend named Squi?
MineralMan
(146,351 posts)I must have been really boring, eh?
uponit7771
(90,371 posts)empedocles
(15,751 posts)heals, protects, and inoculates
all of the righteous
against the powers of darkness'
- Dew
unc70
(6,126 posts)Nothing involving me personally, but some things in my late 1960s UNC yearbooks have not aged well. Some sections could have been lifted from "Animal House".
keithbvadu2
(37,044 posts)Mike Nelson
(9,985 posts)
but no blackface. We had toga parties, but no Clan costumes. Richard Pryor had a promo tour then - and the caption, "This @#$ Crazy" was used with a photo of him doing stand-up. I worked in media activities and voted against the caption, but it was explained to me and made sense - something Richard Pryor was doing, at the time. The phrase was okay with our black representatives, or we wouldn't have gone there
diversity opens communication and understanding.
musicblind
(4,486 posts)Someone wrote "fuck you"but in my yearbook, but I'm gay and it was the South in the early 2000's so...
And while I never saw anyone in blackface, I'd not be surprised to learn it happened. It probably did. Hate in America is awful and powerful. They celebrated Matthew Shepherd's death in the lunchroom. I can't even IMAGINE what they did to black students.
Oh, and students in my high school used the N word. I know because I heard it. (And this happened while our student body president was black.) Their audacity to say those things was sickening. They thought they could say and do any hateful thing they wanted without consequence.
There is a serious problem with bigotry and racism. It's why we still need affirmative action. It's why we still need to take politicians to task. It's why we still need the NAACP, Black Lives Matter, and the Southern Poverty Law Center. It's why Northam needs to resign.