frat party on the other side. and the republicans will do whatever they can to disrupt it and i mean, if that s the case, which one do you think is more compelling? well, i expect that frat parties are more interesting than people arguing about the constitutional merits of high crimes and misdemeanors. bingo. i mean, bingo. doesn t that tell you all you need to know about how the democrats are not necessarily misplaying this but not reading the room right if. i don t think so. i think it s important for them to get this on the record. how do you define a high crime and misdemeanor? how this one in particular was exactly what alexander hamilton was worried about. you know, they re going to have to take the circus atmosphere to get this on the record. and it sets up the rest of the process. he successfully said revenge of the nerds. i m not suggesting that s what s going to happen here.
for that violent rape, which is one of the instances. we should be continually reminded that wealthy white people who have not struggled in the same way as poor white people or people of color and minorities, generally, that we have an easier time and that situations that might seem completely normal and find like a frat party at college might not be the same for someone who didn t grow up martha: i think that frat parties were daunting and strange to someone like me. me as well. martha: that is what bothers me when she talks about dropping out of math class, she didn t understand she was afraid to talk to the very famous math professor. these are common experiences and when you put in the context of your cultural background, it mitigates the experiences we all have of going to college and being in a very different mix of
next to him in a kkk hood. that being said, i still think it is pretty egregious if for no other reason than, you know, this wasn t ancient history. this is 2001. he s the son of a politician, someone who likely had plans to be in public life. he was a teacher and yet didn t know that this was or didn t at the time recognize that this was an inappropriate thing to do. i do give him credit for coming out tonight in that clip you played and saying that, you know, at the time i didn t think this was racist, but now i recognize that it is. i don t think there s really much more he can say other than sorry, which he also said. the one thing i will add, don, about blackface here, since you played the clip of him saying he did it again, singing the song deo in blackface, one of the problems with blackface is even if context matters, even if there s not the malicious intent, it s a situation where you run the risk and i think he did and governor northam did and people who do it at hallow
be in public life. he was a teacher and yet didn t know that this was or didn t at the time recognize that this was an inappropriate thing to do. i do give him credit for coming out tonight in that clip you played and saying that, you know, at the time i didn t think this was racist, but now i recognize that it is. i don t think there s really much more he can say other than sorry, which he also said. the one thing i will add, don, about blackface here, since you played the clip of him saying he did it again, singing the song deo in blackface, one of the problems with blackface is even if context matters, even if there s not the malicious intent, it s a situation where you run the risk and i think he did and governor northam did and people who do it at halloween and at frat parties do it is that you reduce the ethnicity, the race, the religion that you re caricaturing to a one dimensional or two dimensional state or caricature and dehumanize in that way. that doesn t mean that
many times and he said, this is what i remember. what s interesting is, when you look at incidents like this and as you point out as recently as 2001 for him when he s a grown man, even the reaction in 2001, there s been a lot of change and development in the way people, you know, talk about race, look at race, talk about privilege in 2019 versus 2001, but even in 2001, it seems somewhat surprising. yeah. i mean, i talked to a friend of mine, i was a student at uc-berkeley, even then, doing blackface, brownface, yellowface was wrong. it s a privilege that not just 2001. recently, right? seen examples of frat parties where the whole theme is around black and brownface and overwhelmingly young white men and women who don t consider themselves racist at all or doing anything wrong saying,