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What’s this ‘racist frat’ Joe Kennedy belonged to in college?
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A month before launching his Senate campaign last year, Representative Joe Kennedy III revisited one element of his mostly unimpeachable college career. At Stanford University in the early 2000s, he had lived in the Kappa Alpha fraternity house, and he wanted to formally disaffiliate because of the national organization’s “racist record,” he and a group of former members wrote in a joint letter to the fraternity.
In a dead-heat Senate race where the candidates are virtually indistinguishable on policy, Senator Edward Markey has seized on Kennedy’s connection to that troubled fraternity, citing his involvement as an example of poor judgment and his disassociation mere political expediency. The jab has become more potent against the backdrop of a national reckoning over racism and white supremacy.
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Related:
- New poll finds Markey with margin-of-error lead as Kennedy hits back over attacks on family
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