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    Top Va. Republican Senator Edited 1968 Yearbook With Blackface Photos, Racial Slurs

    Senate Majority Leader Tommy Norment joins an ever-widening scandal about past displays of racism that has engulfed the state's top Democrats
    by Whittney Evans Feb 07, 2019 1 minute
    People dressed in blackface are seen in the 1968 edition of The Bomb: Virginia Military Institute's yearbook.

    A top Virginia Republican has joined a growing list of Democrats under fire for past racially insensitive photos and costumes.

    Virginia Senate Majority Leader Tommy Norment was the managing editor, which includes photos of students wearing blackface and people holding confederate flags. Racial slurs like the N-word were published in addition to Asian slurs used to identify a student from Thailand.

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