GOP Senate majority leader in Va. racist yearbook pictures:

[Kingofalldems]

Link to tweet

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tommy-norment-racist-yearbook-blackface-virginia-senator_us_5c5c6fefe4b0d073e7043f0b?ncid=engmodushpmg00000004

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[Fuzzpope]

1. Dude.

What is up with Virginia and it's non-local quantum entanglement disaster?

This is glitch in the Matrix level madness.

[apnu]

6. Its VMI, the South's answer to West Point

VMI is where Stonewall Jackson was teaching before the Civil War. Many Southern officers prided themselves for being VMI grads in the war, feeling the education was better than West Point. Many Confederate units were raised right out of VMI classes early on. VMI was gleefully Confederate. Of course that stain still exists there.

This has nothing to do with political party, just the general racist shit that goes on in Secessionist States to this day.

[dubyadiprecession]

7. The next batch of elected officials to get in trouble are...

Heterosexual men that dress as women in school photos.
It’s degrading to women!!!
You did it/we know it and we’ll find out! Prepare to resign fellas!!

[RobinA]

14. Well, Now

this is a WHOLE other kettle of fish and I was actually thinking about this just a day or two ago. There was a protest and counter protest at a local library concerning a drag queen reading for kids. Got me to thinking...

[RobinA]

15. Really!

I went to high school and college and am about the age of these guys. I have never in my life seen anybody in blackface and no yearbook I own contains anybody in blackface. And that would be a total of six yearbooks circa the '70's. It must be a southern thing.

[bdamomma]

2. How about this on Turtle???

https://www.bing.com/th?id=OIF.OtSA%2fMVeR7%2fdteVJSbUxiw&w=174&h=168&c=7&o=5&dpr=1.25&pid=1.7

[Kingofalldems]

3. Here it is:

[bdamomma]

11. thanks for a

better image.

[dubyadiprecession]

10. That guy on the right of turtle is John...McCain?

[customerserviceguy]

16. I don't think so

but I do wonder, where was that picture taken? Was it in a secessionist state that continued to use the confederate flag in many instances of everyday life? It would be rather odd if it were in Kentucky, which stayed in the Union during the war, even though some Kentuckians took the Confederate side.

[Blue_Tires]

4. Way ahead of you

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100211788702

[TCJ70]

5. We should be clear...that's not the GOP Senate majority leader in the photos...

...they're from a yearbook that he was responsible for editing.

[KatyMan]

8. So?

He allowed it so he approved of it.

[TCJ70]

9. So the title of the OP says it's him in the pictures. Accuracy matters. Who are we? Republicans? n/t

[Kingofalldems]

12. Certainly does not.

'Senate majority leader in Va.'

[Kingofalldems]

13. That makes it just as bad or worse.

The people in the pics may not have known they were for the yearbook---GOP Senate majority leader knew and put them in the yearbook.