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Late 80s Hokie

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When I was a HS sophomore, there was "Senior Hat Day". One guy came in with


a klansman hood....and won in the day's final assembly for that 'hat'. "Voting" was how loud the cheers were.

The next day, there was an assembly called where the school admins spent the time telling us WHY everyone who was cheering for Izzy was dumb. Note that I WASN'T one of the ones cheering because even though I had no idea about blackface being bad at that point, I knew the hood was bad.

I went to a catholic high school. The klan isn't exactly known for being pro catholic. Maybe 10 to 12% of the students were black. As my teacher pointed out after the assembly "Geez, how dumb are you all?!?. Even the black guys were cheering!? Smarten up!"

Now that guy could NOT be elected to anything, but I don't think a picture of that ever made it into the yearbook.

(In response to this post by Guy LeDouche)

Posted: 02/06/2019 at 1:21PM



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