Posted on 02/27/2019 3:34:26 PM PST by maggief
A Virginia state employee has complained that her eighth-grade daughter was upset during a tour of the historic governor’s residence when first lady Pam Northam handed raw cotton to her and another African American child and asked them to imagine being enslaved and having to pick the crop.
“The Governor and Mrs. Northam have asked the residents of the Commonwealth to forgive them for their racially insensitive past actions,” Leah Dozier Walker, who oversees the Office of Equity and Community Engagement at the state Education Department, wrote Feb. 25 to lawmakers and the office of Gov. Ralph Northam (D).
“But the actions of Mrs. Northam, just last week, do not lead me to believe that this Governor’s office has taken seriously the harm and hurt they have caused African Americans in Virginia or that they are deserving of our forgiveness,” she wrote.
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At least she didn’t toss them a basketball
Did she do it in black face?
And? That’s a problem?
She’s in Virginia. The slaves in Virginia would more likely be working in the tobacco fields, not cotton fields.
No. But, luckily, Ralph was wearing blackface when he picked it.
Cotton? Grown only in the SE corner of the state. Why not peanuts and a nice ham sandwich?
Thank goodness she didn’t throw it on the floor and tell them to pick it up.
But if the kids are that fragile, they’ll never survive real life anyway.
Did she hand whips to the white students?
I was immediately reminded of this YouTube video. He tells of a similar odd feild trip.
(Language warning)
OHHHH! I wish I was in the land of Cotton...hallelujah
I don’t know about blackface, but probably wearing one of those all white “solidarity” klan dresses like the chicks at the State of the Union.
Another shakedown on tap? What’s the cost of “forgiveness” this time?
So far:
VA Black leaders: $5 mil.
Restored felon voting rights
Al Gore: oppose gas pipeline
There is some cotton in Virginia now. Probably was some back at that time too. You re right though, tobacco was the big crop. Some people look for anything to be offended by. One person was offended. Cry me a river.
Why are the white Racist and the black Rapist still in office in VA!?
Rats outta office NOW!
What am I going to be offended about today?
Not sure yet. What’s the cut off time for turn-ins on that?
Let’s everyone pick something that offends us every day. Think of what miserable people we would be at the end of a week. These people are making this their only reason to get out of bed every day. I’M OFFENDED - because!!!!!!!!!
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