Saturday, February 9, 2019

Virginia Republican Embroiled in Blackface Scandal

News came out that Senate Majority Leader Tommy Norment edited a 1968 college yearbook that had slurs and blackface photos. The yearbook had many slurs against African American and Asian students. Virginia Military Institute communications director Col Stewart MacInnis has said that the school changed its policies to make sure that advisers review the yearbook. This scandal started when a picture from Virginia Governor Ralph Northam's 1984 yearbook page showed someone in blackface and another in Ku Klux Klan robes.

 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47162714 

By: Matthew Rivera



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