Blackface, KKK hoods and mock lynchings: Review of 900 yearbooks finds blatant racism

[El OchoCinco]

yeah... for your evil misogynistic posting of her peaceful yoga pic. how dare you act like a man.

If mysogyny means sharing this with the world then guilty as charged...

 

[El OchoCinco]

This gets back to changing social norms. Back in the 1970s and 1980s this behavior was common at themed parties held at universities. There were also plenty of instances involving blackface, KKK people, etc. in the media, on TV, and in movies. Most of it was comedic purposes. This type of behavior was far more accepted 40 years ago; now it is viewed as reprehensible in the current social norms.

I can understand that argument with respect to blackface even though I respectfully disagree but I move lynching to another level that was never a social norm to make fun of.

 

[Clubber Lang]

Black face was/is fine for Hillary and Bill Clinton though.
For some strange reason they get a pass for their past photos meanwhile other people lose their careers.
Hmmmm, I wonder why?

 

[AAAintheBeltway]

I can understand that argument with respect to blackface even though I respectfully disagree but I move lynching to another level that was never a social norm to make fun of.

You have to look at it as performance art and protected political expression. We have been lectured by liberals for decades that true art is meant to to shock the senses and provoke debate. That is exactly what these images have done. It was the method adopted by fraternity brothers and other traditionalists to protest the relentless leftwing indoctrination and suffocating PC culture that was being imposed in universities at that time.

 

[El OchoCinco]

You have to look at it as performance art and protected political expression. We have been lectured by liberals for decades that true art is meant to to shock the senses and provoke debate. That is exactly what these images have done. It was the method adopted by fraternity brothers and other traditionalists to protest the relentless leftwing indoctrination and suffocating PC culture that was being imposed in universities at that time.

Yes drunk frat guys were engaging in a deep artistic intellectual exercise right after they had their farting contest and played "I dare you to eat that"

 

[AAAintheBeltway]

Let me remind you this was the time the Black Panthers were strutting around carrying rifles and threatening people. One of their leaders, the shitbag Bobby Rush, has been a democrat representative from Illinois for a long time. I don't recall anyone demanding he resign or be stripped of committee assignments.

Another prominent race hustler of that time led an armed takeover of administrative offices at Cornell. His name is Eric Holder.

And let's not forget the conscience of America, at least in MSNBC's eyes, the Rev. Al Sharpton. He fomented a riot that caused deaths in his early days as an aspiring racial arsonist. He then pushed one of the earliest fake hate crimes, the Tawana Brawley fiasco. He tried to get a white policeman and DA sent to prison on ridiculous made-up charges.

I will listen to complaints about college students posing for insensitive pictures when these people and others like them are escorted from public life.

 

[AAAintheBeltway]

Yes drunk frat guys were engaging in a deep artistic intellectual exercise right after they had their farting contest and played "I dare you to eat that"

It must have been deeply painful to you when you were rejected by every fraternity at junior college and saw the cool guys getting all the best girls.

Aspiring performance artists stoking creative genius:

 

[AAAintheBeltway]

The right to party is protected by the First Amendment.

 

[AAAintheBeltway]

College can teach us valuable life lessons. For example, when things look bad, it's time to toga.

 

[Tsing Tao]

I would not advocate burning anyone at the stake but I tend to believe getting drunk and sleeping with your friends ex girlfriend is a dumb mistake when you are drunk. Putting on blackface, ok now we are in the level of ignorance.

Making fun of lynching and the pain and trauma of it goes more deeper to WHO the person really is. I am more liable to believe the person with a full admission of ignorance of how wrong blackface itself is but to make a joke of lynching is another level. That shows something else about a person. I think of Emmit Till story.

I just put lynching and thinking it is something you can make fun of in another category above just being young and stupid. Same as if they recreated a scene of Jew going into an oven, or giving Native Americans blankets.

There are tons of things that are ignorant and stupid that kids do. Are you so pure that you regret nothing you did in your teens or 20s? If you do something stupid that did not break the law, you shouldn't be held accountable for it later in life.