The Daily Mail released photographs said to be from Hobbs' high school yearbooks purportedly documenting 'Slave Day,' though none show Hobbs participating in such an activity.
As yet, Snopes has not been able to independently verify the claims made by The Daily Mail. We reached out to Hobbs’ campaign at two different official email addresses and in a Twitter DM but did not receive a response by press time.
This specific caption did not refer to the activity as “Slave Day,” but subsequent yearbooks while Hobbs was still in high school did refer to it using that phrase.One picture in the 1984-1985 yearbook showed what appeared to be a white student with dark face paint for “Slave Day.” Another photo showed a student being led around by a collar and leash. None of the pictures printed in the yearbook specifically showed Hobbs participating in the activity.
This activity apparently involved freshman students being able to buy senior “slaves” at an auction, the opposite of the other “Slave Day” activity.The Daily Mail’s reporting also made mention of the separate fact that, in December 2021, Hobbs issued an apology to a Black woman named Talonya Adams after she had been fired in her role as a Democratic policy adviser in 2015.
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