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brooklynite

(94,974 posts)
Sat Feb 2, 2019, 01:07 PM Feb 2019

Just 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.

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Just checked all my Yearbook pages... (Original Post) brooklynite Feb 2019 OP
Do you like beer? Renew Deal Feb 2019 #1
I do. And I went to parties. brooklynite Feb 2019 #3
I like beer Renew Deal Feb 2019 #7
But do you have a calendar? MiniMe Feb 2019 #9
Nothing like that in my yearbooks, either. MineralMan Feb 2019 #2
IKR !?!?! Were was the democratic background checks !?!?! WHAT THE HELL !?!? uponit7771 Feb 2019 #4
'The power of the priesthood empedocles Feb 2019 #5
Nothing that bad, but some unsavory stuff unc70 Feb 2019 #6
No 'locker room talk' for the wife to brag about? keithbvadu2 Feb 2019 #8
We had drinking photos... Mike Nelson Feb 2019 #10
Well in my yearbook musicblind Feb 2019 #11

brooklynite

(94,974 posts)
3. I do. And I went to parties.
Sat Feb 2, 2019, 01:20 PM
Feb 2019

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?

empedocles

(15,751 posts)
5. 'The power of the priesthood
Sat Feb 2, 2019, 01:22 PM
Feb 2019

heals, protects, and inoculates
all of the righteous
against the powers of darkness'

- Dew

unc70

(6,126 posts)
6. Nothing that bad, but some unsavory stuff
Sat Feb 2, 2019, 01:52 PM
Feb 2019

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".

Mike Nelson

(9,985 posts)
10. We had drinking photos...
Sat Feb 2, 2019, 09:58 PM
Feb 2019

… 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)
11. Well in my yearbook
Sat Feb 2, 2019, 10:10 PM
Feb 2019

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.

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