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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMississippi GOP Gubernatorial Front-Runner Tate Reeves' Fraternity Yearbook Page Included Blackface
Mississippi GOP Gubernatorial Front-Runner Tate Reeves Fraternity Yearbook Page Included Blackface
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Will Mississippi GOP and the national party call for him to pull out of the race?
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Mississippi GOP Gubernatorial Front-Runner Tate Reeves' Fraternity Yearbook Page Included Blackface (Original Post)
MelissaB
Feb 2019
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world wide wally
(21,719 posts)1. WTF is with these assholes?
I never even dressed up to look like George Washington... Well, I did play Davey Crockett in kindergarten
madaboutharry
(40,150 posts)3. I don't get it either.
Is it to openly display one's hatred of black people? Maybe it is. Or is it just tone deafness and being an asshole. Or maybe it's both. I really don't understand it.
Docreed2003
(16,817 posts)2. Let me guess...
He's a member of Kappa Alpha frat
groundloop
(11,488 posts)4. Gee..... how could you tell?
Yep, a little ways into the linked article it says the frat was KA.
They were exactly like that at my school as well, they even dressed up in confederate uniforms for their formal.
msongs
(67,193 posts)5. for them its a feature not a disgrace nt