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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Mon Feb 4, 2019, 04:02 PM Feb 2019

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Northam's Med School Banned Yearbooks In 2013 Due To Racist Photos

By Kate Riga

February 4, 2019 2:22 pm

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s (D) medical school, Eastern Virginia Medical School, banned yearbooks in 2013 after the inclusion of photos showing students dressed like Confederate soldiers, according to a Monday Washington Post report.

The administration made that move nearly 30 years after the publication of the yearbook which includes photos of men dressed in blackface and a Ku Klux Klan robe on Northam’s page.

Provost Richard Homan said that the yearbooks had been produced with very minimal faculty oversight, and that he regrets not conducting an audit of past yearbooks after imposing the ban.

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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/northam-med-school-banned-yearbooks-2013-due-to-racist-photos

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Northam's Med School Banned Yearbooks In 2013 Due To Racist Photos (Original Post) DonViejo Feb 2019 OP

Fucking arrogant morons dalton99a Feb 2019 #1

Black people are routinely under-treated in healthcare settings. Black women, and black mothers WhiskeyGrinder Feb 2019 #2

+1000 ismnotwasm Feb 2019 #4

Seems like you have a problem with the quality of student exboyfil Feb 2019 #3

dalton99a

(81,515 posts)

1. Fucking arrogant morons

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Feb 4, 2019, 04:05 PM

Feb 2019

WhiskeyGrinder

(22,357 posts)

2. Black people are routinely under-treated in healthcare settings. Black women, and black mothers

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Feb 4, 2019, 04:11 PM

Feb 2019

in particular, are especially vulnerable. Our healthcare system is a white supremacist institution, and it's things like this that help reinforce it.

ismnotwasm

(41,989 posts)

4. +1000

Reply to WhiskeyGrinder (Reply #2)

Mon Feb 4, 2019, 04:17 PM

Feb 2019

exboyfil

(17,863 posts)

3. Seems like you have a problem with the quality of student

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Feb 4, 2019, 04:13 PM

Feb 2019

Not necessarily with the yearbooks.

This is a public medical school who, in theory, should be accountable to the citizens of the state of Virginia.

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