Youngkin's Racist Yearbook Imagery ("An Oriental Occasion") Shows He Was Not Vetted

[lowkell]

Youngkin's yearbook featured white students offensively dressed in "rice hats," sandals and geisha robes serving their tuxedoed, all-white peers.


https://bluevirginia.us/2021/11/youngkins-racist-yearbook-imagery-an-oriental-occasion-shows-he-was-not-vetted

[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. McAuliffe dismissed Northam yearbook photo as youthful mistake at 2019 event

https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/22/politics/kfile-mcauliffe-northam-blackface-scandal/index.html

CNN)After publicly condemning Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam's decades-old racist yearbook photo in February 2019 as "racist, unacceptable and inexcusable at any age," Terry McAuliffe, who is now running to succeed Northam, struck a different tone just a few months later, dismissing the photo as a youthful mistake -- and even denying it was Northam in the photo at all.

"Listen, even if it had been him in the blackface. You know," shrugged the former Democratic Virginia governor. "It was a dumb mistake 40 years ago."

"I grew up in New York. And in all fairness folks, I didn't know what blackface was. You know, I had not experienced, we had no racism issues, honestly, growing up in Syracuse," he said at an event promoting his book in July 2019.

(snip)

The interview came just months after McAuliffe, along with other Democratic politicians, called on Northam to resign after it was revealed Northam appeared in a racist yearbook photo from his medical school, showing one person dressed in blackface and another in the KKK's signature white hood.

[Yarnie]

2. I couldn't read the print on the yearbook pages

but, I assume the tall dude was Youngkin? In which case, he wasn't dressed in an offensive outfit. So, what he did wrong was--attend a prom, or something? Was he part of choosing the theme, or the decorations or something?

[Drunken Irishman]

3. No different than Northam.

[Doodley]

4. Not seeing that he is a racist by this example.

[TheFarseer]

6. This why Democrats lose

They want to focus on something in someone’s yearbook from a million years ago that was kind of racist. Why not campaign on all the things private equity companies do that you can’t even believe is legal. Youngkin led a group that makes billions by moving paper around, putting companies out of business and ruining people’s lives and we somehow lost to this guy!

[jalan48]

7. +1

[Hav]

8. The article itself already had to concede

that the claim that this wasn't vetted was wrong. The McAuliffe campaign was aware of it and apparently didn't regard this as bad enough to make a big deal out of it. For good reasons. They would have looked like idiots. This was dressing up for a theme, it didn't look racist or offensive at all.

[hardluck]

9. I'm not seeing it

So his prom picture is in the yearbook but he's not dressed up in offense clothes? But the objection is that his picture (in a tux) is on the opposite page? Was he on the prom committee? Did he pick the theme? Was he on the yearbook committee?

And that's not even going into Northam who was actually in blackface (or was the the KKK member?).

[lagomorph777]

10. Yeah, if that had gotten out during the campaign,

he would have won with a bigger margin of ignorant white women.

[Deep State Witch]

11. That's A Plus

In Virginia politics.