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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsVirginia Sen Norment (REPUBLICAN) was an editor for VMI yearbook filled with racist photos and slurs
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 states 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 in Lexington after graduating from James Blair High School in Williamsburg and has been a state senator since 1992.
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https://pilotonline.com/news/government/politics/virginia/article_d4ce7700-2ae3-11e9-ace9-ff7814740140.html
The revelation about one of Virginia's most powerful Republicans comes as the states 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 in Lexington after graduating from James Blair High School in Williamsburg and has been a state senator since 1992.
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https://pilotonline.com/news/government/politics/virginia/article_d4ce7700-2ae3-11e9-ace9-ff7814740140.html
It's time for this racist clown to go, along with every racist clown in office, regardless of party
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Virginia Sen Norment (REPUBLICAN) was an editor for VMI yearbook filled with racist photos and slurs (Original Post)
DemocratSinceBirth
Feb 2019
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An editor is responsible for the content of the work he or she is editing.
DemocratSinceBirth
Feb 2019
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Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)1. Some idiot from Eastern Virginia Medical School yearbook staff
came forward to say that people submitted their own photos for the page...
1) I've never ever seen 100% participation in any volunteer event at school or work so clearly not everyone does what is optional
2) he doesn't understand that his judgement is also called into question since he had no problem producing a yearbook with multiple racist images...
I suspect he is a republican
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)2. An editor is responsible for the content of the work he or she is editing.
marble falls
(57,104 posts)3. But but but but ... free speech! He's got to go.