Just waiting to see how many currently hold office as Democrats... UNC officials condemn old yearbook photos of students in Klan robes, blackface https://www.wral.com/unc-officials-...of-students-in-klan-robes-blackface/18176167/ University of North Carolina officials on Thursday condemned photos from UNC-Chapel Hill's 1979 yearbook that show some students wearing white hoods and robes pretending to lynch another student in blackface. "There's a number of things about our past that we need to understand and deal with," UNC Interim President Dr. Bill Roper said. "That's a horrific part of our past, one that I think has no place then or now in our university system." (More at above url)
What in the hell was going on with these hillbillies. I mean, I can see kids doing this kind of stuff at in their own neighborhoods, but how in the hell does this get in a school year book? WTF were the teachers and faculty thinking?
There were many parties at universities across the country with themes in the 70s and 80s. One of the common themes was KKK/blackface. At the time this was just considered entertainment on many campuses and not offensive. So there are many university year books from this era with these type of pictures - especially for fraternities. There were also many print pictures of these type of events taken at the time which probably will suddenly start appearing over the upcoming months with claims that xxx in the picture is a current politician. I should note that for a long time UNC Chapel Hill has been our most liberal university. Even back in the 1970s anyone with conservative views was very unwelcome on campus. Let's say it is very hard to find a Republican graduate or professor at UNC Chapel Hill over the past 100 years.
I suspect there may be a picture or two of me in college in a sheet too. But I was with 6 women wearing genie costumes. We culturally appropriated... but who would blame me. I showed up at their house and they put a sheet over me. Unfortunately, my harem had no interest in their duties at the end of the evening.
The guv pretty much covered all his bases. He apologized profusely, then insisted he did not do it. What more can you ask for from a guy?
So you're saying that during the 70's/80's, even at the most liberal universities it was cool to dress up as a Klan member? Not anywhere i was living at the time, which was Chicago area and Southern California. Hell i don't remember that being okay to do even when i was in high school during the mid 60's. Now i ain't saying we was all woke, but there is no way in hell the school administrators and faculty were going to give it their blessings.
Go to the yearbooks of the nearly any large university in the U.S. during the 1970s and 1980s and you will surely find the same thing. Let's just take a look at the other universities that came out today with similar photos; University of Richmond, UVa, VMI in Virginia and several through the northeast.