UNC interim chancellor addresses blackface yearbook photo
CHAPEL HILL, NC (WNCN) — UNC-Chapel Hill interim Chancellor Kevin M. Guskiewicz was faced with a question about controversy immediately during his introductory press conference on Thursday.
On the heels of Virginia’s blackface controversy involving the Democratic governor and other high ranking state officials, similar photos surfaced from a 1979 UNC yearbook.
One photo shows two people in Ku Klux Klan robes and another in blackface with a rope around their neck.
Guskiewicz, along with UNC System Interim President William L. Roper, said the photo doesn’t represent the University.
“There’s a number of things about our past we need to understand and deal with. That’s a horrific part of our past. One that has no place here then or now,” Roper said before handing off the podium to Guskiewicz.
The interim chancellor said he became aware of the photo Wednesday evening.
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