Bill and Hillary
Posted on 02/06/2019 3:23:06 PM PST by Enlightened1
Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring (D) resigned as co-chair of the Democratic Attorneys General Association Wednesday following the revelation that he wore blackface during his college years.
“Virginia AG Herring offered to step aside as co-chair and the committee accepted,” a DACA spokesperson said in a statement.
In a meeting with black lawmakers earlier Wednesday, Herring admitted to wearing “brown makeup” as part of a costume to resemble rapper Kurtis Blow. “It sounds ridiculous even now writing it. But because of our ignorance and glib attitudes – and because we did not have an appreciation for the experiences and perspectives of others – we dressed up and put on wigs and brown makeup,” Herring said in a statement.
“That conduct clearly shows that, as a young man, I had a callous and inexcusable lack of awareness and insensitivity to the pain my behavior could inflict on others,” he continued. “It was really a minimization of both people of color, and a minimization of a horrific history I knew well even then.”
The revelation came as Gov. Ralph Northam (D) and Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax (D) face scandals of there own, plunging the Commonwealth further into political turmoil. Leading Democrats and Republicans are demanding Northam step aside after a racist photo appeared in his 1984 yearbook. The photo, first reported by Big League Politics and later verified by the Virginian-Pilot and the Washington Post, shows Northam and another man in blackface and Ku Klux Klan attire. Several Democrat presidential contenders, including Sens. Kamala Harris (D-CA) and Obama-era HUD Secretary Julian Castro, were among those calling for the governor to leave his post. “Leaders are called to a higher standard, and the stain of racism should have no place in the halls of government. The Governor of Virginia should step aside so...
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Hey, it is time to pile on them. I bet they drank and smoked pot underage too, thus breaking the law.
It's one thing if it was 1955, and you were in high school or something like that....
I was at college in MISSISSIPPI in the 1980's, and the thought of wearing blackface was repugnant to us even then.
The Democrat blackfaced babykillers need to be STOPPED.
Northam wont resign b/c he’s a rock-ribbed racist and loathes the idea of blackman Fairfax as Governor.
So Fairfax resigns first——b/c he actually committed a crime.
That paves the way for Northam then Herring being kicked out.
Bill and Hillary
Actually, no.
Fake friggin news.
I’m 75 and don’t understand these Democrats.
The civil rights movement was 1954-1970 (more or less).
So a college student age 19 in 1980 and a Medical School Grad in 1984 didn’t know? What kind of students were they?
I can understand if they went to school in the 1940s, or if they were uneducated “deplorables clinging to their guns”. But these were college students in the 1980s claiming they didn’t know.
Should the be thrown out because they are stupid? Or because they are liars?
“The left is eating its own.
It is time for Conservatives to refuse to be cowed by these idiotic SJW attacks.”
AMEN !
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