[Huffpoo] Virginia state Sen. Tommy Norment was once the managing editor of a yearbook chock-full of racial slurs and images depicting blackface, according to a report by The Virginian-Pilot.
Norment, the Republican majority leader of the state Senate, oversaw the Virginia Military Institute’s yearbook in 1968, the news outlet reports. In that yearbook, students appear dressed in blackface in several photos, and racial slurs are used regularly. In one instance, a student from Bangkok, Thailand, is called a "Jap" and a "Chink." A caption under another unidentified man’s photo reads: "He was known as the ’Barracks Jew’ having his fingers in the finances of the entire Corps."
The VMI yearbook, called "The Bomb," has been published continuously since 1897. You can see the whole yearbook here. |