I'm not in a position to absolve or forgive, but I understand and admire your strength in telling everyone of it...

Thanks!

forgive yourself.

What the hell is that suppossed to mean?

Is that some kind of witty sarcasm?

becasue if it is, and if you are trying to be cute, it isn't funny

What is interesting is how you don't seem to participate in many discussions here

that Gov Northam could perhaps examine his own thoughts and feelings about blackface a little further. Not being cute, just connecting my statement to the current events.
Yeah, I don't participate here very much, though I keep a DU tab open all day long. I'm a radical left activist and a yellow dog dem voter, for 50 years. Often I feel that my input would not be welcome here. So I don't expose myself to the pointless criticism of my often opaque remarks. I presume that's ok with you?

in the OP could have various connotations unless clarified

as is:

"radical left activist and a yellow dog"

I don't even know what that means, because yellow dog itself has many connotations

as in, "I'd vote for a yellow dog as long as it was a democrat." Meaning, I never vote outside the party. So, as a leftist I do find myself voting for a fair amount of yellow dogs, ie., marginally acceptable candidates whose best feature is that they arent Republicans. I only mentioned this because you seemed to be questioning my credentials for being on DU. Why did you do that?

… for sharing that memory. This is something a fine future Governor would say.

The kind of show there blackface used to be a part of it for some people. I don't recall any debate on the matter, but there was no blackface. Never even discussed by Cub Pack leadership. My mom was a den mother. I recall zero discussion around it. It was simply to be kids singing songs on stage.

Our neighborhood was both racially and ethnically diverse. While Italians were the largest group, they were not the majority. There was a sizeable AA population, among others. It was pretty much a scale model UN population. We all got along for the most part. I recall inter-neighborhood dustups, but never any ethnic or racial issues.