I explain to my students that "presentism" projects modern values and ideas into the past, often for political purposes. But this scandal described in the
2/2/19 Daily Mail just confuses me:
- Democrat Governor Northam's 1984 yearbook page was revealed on Friday
- Shows a man in blackface and another in an KKK hood amid other photos of him
- Northam, 59, confirms that one of the men is him, but did not say which one
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam now denies appearing in a racist photograph that he on Friday apologized for.'
The 59-year-old from Nassawadox has done a complete about face according to a fellow Virginia Democrat who spoke to the Associated Press off the record about a private conversation that had occurred.
If this had been in 1934 or 1954, or even 1964, he couldf argue that he was a victim of the times and the values in which he grew up. But 1984? Sorry, no pass. Trump is accused of racism for things far less serious. So will a Democrat be given a pass because he supports post-birth abortion (isn't that infanticide?)
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