Virginia Sen. Tommy Norment was an editor for VMI yearbook filled with racist photos and slurs

[demmiblue]

A Virginia Military Institute yearbook overseen by future state Senate Majority Leader Tommy Norment in 1968 features a host of racist photos and slurs, including blackface.

The revelation about one of Virginia's most powerful Republicans comes as the state’s Democratic governor and attorney general are facing calls to resign over their own admissions they wore blackface as young men.

Norment, R-James City County, was managing editor of The Bomb publication that year. He went to VMI after graduating from James Blair High School in Williamsburg and has been a state senator since 1992.

On one page of the yearbook, a student poses in blackface, surrounded by others in costumes at a party. Another page features a photo of two men in blackface holding a football.

The N-word is used at least once. A student listed as being from Bangkok, Thailand, is referred to as a “Chink” and “Jap.”

https://pilotonline.com/news/government/politics/virginia/article_d4ce7700-2ae3-11e9-ace9-ff7814740140.html

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[Yosemito]

1. He gave the green light. He must resign

Immediately.

[njhoneybadger]

2. These yearbooks are really coming back to bite people in the ass

[Freethinker65]

3. Be careful what you wish for, Republicans

[Yosemito]

4. Hes a Republican

I would’ve noted that he’s a Republican somewhere in the title, not the body.

[Ex Lurker]

5. VMI was headed by Stonewall Jackson

the entire student body resigned to fight for the Confederacy in the Civil War. They had to be sued to admit women. None of this stuff should come as any surprise.

[rogue emissary]

6. Yes he should resign and watch the Republicans

go quiet. As the purge of those in black face and other acts of overt racism are exposed.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

7. It's almost like...racism is, I don't know, institutionalized, or something.

Systemic. Woven into the very fabric of this nation. What will we do with this realization?

[MH1]

10. +1000. nt.

[Iliyah]

8. There is more to come . . .

The backfiring on Republicans will be plenty.

[demmiblue]

9. ...

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