I think that he definitely have some more explaining to do, but for now I am ok with him staying on. I was young in 1984, but old enough to be aware of how Blacks and Whites interacted, they went to school together, but almost never interacted outside of school, except for sports, they never visited eachother's homes or hung out at the Mall. Today's kids are much different, there are actual cross race friendships and some kids do everything together.

How does the above relate to Northam? Professional schools (Law, Medical, Finance, Engineering) were lily White during that time, except for a smattering of Asians (Vietnamese, Chinese, Indian). Northam likely came to the university and medical school from a White culture that only interacted with Black servants, he likely never met a Black peer. Believe it or not, it is easy to have clueless young White men (mostly) do stuff that was racially offensive, even if most of them went on to be decent human beings. My early life was not lived among a diverse culture, yes I came across people of other races, but I stayed within my race largely when forming friendships, it was not until after college that I began to meet peers from other races and interact with them at all levels, that has been a far richer and rewarding world for me.

On the way to her doctorate in neural physiology. Her classmates were not lily white, even at Duke. We grew up in Central Florida with family from Central Alabama and not one of us were ever tempted to dress as a KKK member or to put on black face. We knew how crass and tasteless that would be.

Of course none of us were heavy drinking members of non-scholastic fraternities or sororities so maybe that is the difference.

Maybe that explains why I did not
make friends with many people, least yet ones from other races. The fraternities and sororities at UF were pretty segregated on many levels, racially, economically. I knew people that viewed having a friend from another race as being tantamount to treason, they just mostly kept their mouth shut about it.

Maybe it was because I stayed away from the sororities or because one major was anthropology but I ran into few who were racist.

Unfortunately for him, that is not a path to absolution.

This guy is a nightmare.