One has to consider timing and what's happened to attitudes since the jim crow era and context, don't you think? It could well be that 40 years from now your suicide bomber going to a party with a Rabbi partner in traditional garb could be seen as quite humorous by those not afraid to poke fun at narrow minded chauvinism. Expand your thinking to include distance and context.. and get a life. You wouldn't do it, I probably wouldn't do it, but lets not be judgemental where it gains us nothing. Why try to read something that's likely not there into a situation we know nothing about? Why let others with a political agenda poison our minds?
If we were in more sensible times i would agree with you 100%. Sadly we are in idiotic times where everything is taken as a crisis of monumental proportion. It is the left that brought us here. It is the left who have lost their sense of humor. It is the left wanting to dig into everyone's past. It is the left that wants to magnify every single thing. And why? Trump. It is the left who apparently is willing to burn the house down over a leaky faucet, so here we are all twisted up over a silly picture and another unsubstantiated allegation of sexual misconduct.
Let me provide my thoughts in this... Theme parties were very common on college campuses in the 1980s. Many of them hosted by fraternities. One of the common themes was KKK/Blackface. These KKK/Blackface theme parties were not only common at universities in the South, but across the entire U.S. There were also parties where people would attempt to mimic popular entertainment figures in blackface. At the time all of this was viewed at entertaining rather than offensive. However now cultural norms have evolved where this is now considered to be very offensive. If every politician who ever attended one of these theme parties was kicked out of office then probably 25% of politicians would be given the boot. And most of the politicians sent packing would be Democrats because they are more likely to belong to frats and attend more parties during college than Republicans who more likely lived a more constrained life during their college years.
Democrats owned black slaves. That is etched in US history. Of course, Democrats trying to spread their fairy tale that is was the Republicans who are the racists and not them! Democrat Senator Robert Bryd was a KKK klansman with numerous pictures wearing his KKK robe with his hood on his arm. Republicans died fighting for black rights yet, the Congressional Black Caucus calls Republicans racist? These guys sold out their own race! Blacks when they research it, find that they have been lied to! Anything to get their votes! That is why more blacks now support President Donald Trump, they are finding out the truth!
I can't recall when it all started in the Deep South* post integration, Southern Democrats who were almost all white and voted largely with the Republicans once, and if, they got to Congress, and Southern Republicans who were almost all black and would have voted with the Democrats if they ever got to Congress, decided -- eventually -- to switch parties, but it wasn't immediately after integration. It was a process like popping corn. At first nothing happened, then a few pops, and then a great popping to create what we have today in Mississippi, our most backward State among the fifty. God Bless America. Of course the reasoning on both sides was impeccable and unassailable. On one side it was "Lincoln freed the slaves; Lincoln was a Republican; therefore I am a Democrat"; on the other side the logic was every bit as pure, "Lincoln freed the slaves; Lincoln was a Republican; therefore I am a Republican." It makes me wonder how it is we ever got to the moon. Obviously, Yankee minds must have been involved. ______ *The Deep South is culturally as far South as you can go in the Continental United States. If there is a geographic and cultural equivalence then the U.S. Deep-South is somewhere South of Antarctica.
Dixiecrats voted with Republicans some times. The tended to be more fiscally conservative and pro defense. There were Senators like Sam Nunn but there was also Jesse Helms. One time a Senator had a poster of Spuds McKenzie on the floor of the Senate. He was going off about the travesty of using a dog to sell beer. He was harping on who it was influencing kids to want beer. Later, when Jesse Helms getting out as the Senator ripping on Spuds was getting in. Jessie Helms said hey can I get a copy of that poster for my grand kids... they love Spuds McKenize.