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| Blackface, KKK hoods and mock lynchings: Review of 900 yearbooks finds blatant racism |
| 2019-02-21 |
| h/t Instapundit [USAToday] The old yearbook photos capture the lighthearted moments from college worth remembering ‐ smiling faces, pep rallies and cans of cheap beer. But tucked in and among those same pages are pictures of students dressed in Ku Klux Klan robes and blackface, nooses and mock lynchings, displays of racism not hidden but memorialized as jokes to laugh about later. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, a stunning number of colleges and university yearbooks published images of blatant racism on campus, the USA TODAY Network found in a review of 900 publications at 120 schools across the country. IMO, it was people - white and black making a joke of the evil past - which, they believed, is gone for ever. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #7 Farmin' B. Hard? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2019-02-21 18:05 |
| #6 I remember going to a college party dressed like a farmer. Izzat rayssist? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2019-02-21 16:07 |
| #5 To quote the Instaprof - Heh. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-02-21 14:58 |
| #4 My college graduating class in '83 had ~8,000 people. No freaking yearbook |
| Posted by: Frank G 2019-02-21 11:54 |
| #3 Before these news stories, I had honestly never even heard of a college yearbook. I thought they only did it for high schools and maybe a few junior highs. |
| Posted by: Vernal Hatrack2366 2019-02-21 11:19 |
| #2 What kind of people even put themselves in a college yearbook? Isn't a yearbook kind of a high school thing? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2019-02-21 07:03 |
| #1 Why do we enjoy the Hitler videos on YouTube? Same thing IMHO. |
| Posted by: Uleck Spererong9442 2019-02-21 04:21 |
