Jim Crow jumps into the game
by Robert C. Koehler, Tribune Content Agency
Feb 07, 2019
3 minutes
History in blackface slaps the present moment awake.
What? The governor put that picture on his yearbook page? In 1984? The wave of outrage, the demand for his resignation -- from Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam's own party, the Democrats -- can't be dismissed with a shrug and an apology. His career may be over, thanks not simply to an act of youthful stupidity but to the context that made it possible: good old American racism.
The controversial shows two guys standing next to each other, holding cans of (most likely) beer. One is dressed up in a
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