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Al Gore Says Ralph Northam Can Atone For Blackface Scandal By Opposing Gas Pipeline
Daily Caller ^ | Feb. 20, 2019 | Michael Bastasch

Posted on 02/20/2019 8:47:33 AM PST by rickmichaels

Former Vice President Al Gore said Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam can fulfill his “racial reconciliation” pledge by opposing the Atlantic Coast pipeline, which he called a “racist rip-off.”

“This is an ideal opportunity for him to say, ‘I’ve seen the light,'” Gore said at an anti-pipeline town hall in a historically black part of Buckingham County, Virginia, as part of an “Environmental Justice Tour,” the AP reported.

Gore appeared on stage with his daughter Karenna Gore, Rev. Dr. William Barber II, environmental activists and residents of Union Hill, a historically black neighborhood, who oppose the Atlantic Coast pipeline.

Gore and climate activists see Northam’s recent blackface controversy as a way to turn him against the Atlantic Coast pipeline.

Northam’s political future was thrown into doubt early in 2019 after his medical school yearbook photos surfaced, showing a picture of an individual in blackface and another in a KKK hood.

Northam apologized for being in the photo, but, one day later, claimed he wasn’t in the photo amid calls for his resignation. He did, however, admit to wearing shoe polish for a dance contest in 1984. The embattled Democratic governor refused to resign, and wanted to focus on “racial reconciliation,” The Washington Post reported.

Barber said Northam needed to address “systemic racism” to truly atone for wearing blackface.

“If you want to be a great governor, if you want to help lead the nation, the first thing you oughta do is stop by Union Hill and tell this compressor, tell Dominion, ‘I was wrong, but I’m gonna do right, now,'” Barber said in a fiery speech Tuesday night.

The Atlantic Coast pipeline will bring natural gas 600 miles from West Virginia, through Virginia to North Carolina. The Richmond-based utility Dominion Energy will build and operate the pipeline.

Dominion plans on building a natural gas compressor station in the historically black Union Hill neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia. The Atlantic pipeline is one of many around the country environmentalists are fighting to block as part of their effort to keep fuel from getting to consumers who need it.

Dominion proposed spending $5.1 million in the Union Hill community, which could include building a community center, improving emergency services and grants for businesses.

The Atlantic Coast pipeline will create thousands of jobs and lower energy bills, supporters say. However, the project has suffered delays and cost overruns while it’s caught up in litigation with environmental groups.

Gore called the pipeline a “vivid example of environmental racism,” and claimed compressor stations, like the one planned for Union Hill, can “cause lots of diseases” and emit lots of noise.

“We’ve heard about explosions and accidents,” Gore said, also claiming newer pipelines are even less safe — though, like his other claims, this is likely untrue.

Gore also called for Dominion to abandon the project and, instead, build more wind turbines and solar panels.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: algore; globalwarming; manbearpig; naturalgas; virginia
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To: rickmichaels

Maybe Northam could atone by purchasing carbon credits from Al Gore.


41 posted on 02/20/2019 9:46:28 AM PST by From The Deer Stand
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To: Leep
Oh, he's beyond mere "Pope"...


42 posted on 02/20/2019 9:46:42 AM PST by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: rickmichaels

I was looking for the logical connection between the gas pipeline and blackface and just don’t see it. If it were an oil pipeline, I suppose Weird Al could at least make a case that that stopping it would make it harder to obtain petroleum products to make boot polish.


43 posted on 02/20/2019 9:50:34 AM PST by ek_hornbeck
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To: JBW1949

Yep !
I’ve seen that one.

Every time I have hear him talk he sounds to me like someone who is “mentally slow”. So much so that Rush’s “Forrest Gore” skit is not to far off the mark!


44 posted on 02/20/2019 9:51:13 AM PST by Reily
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To: rickmichaels

Why is this sex-crazed poodle even consulted for an opinion?


45 posted on 02/20/2019 9:52:55 AM PST by sauropod (Yield to sin, and experience chastening and sorrow; yield to God, and experience joy and blessing.)
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To: rickmichaels
So now we have a grievance-trading market like Gore's carbon-credit market?

Rape a woman, do racist things, lie to the FBI? No problem...

Just trade that for liberal action on favored issues and you can be absolved of your crimes.

-PJ

46 posted on 02/20/2019 9:57:55 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: rickmichaels

I guess Al Goron thinks he is atoning for his Racist Bigoted Father’s Sins by pushing his Globull Warming scam.


47 posted on 02/20/2019 9:58:46 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: rickmichaels

Well LBJ got them to forget about lynchings, Jim Crow, the KKK and an uncountable number of misdeeds if they would come back to the Democratic plantation.


48 posted on 02/20/2019 10:05:24 AM PST by Kid Shelleen ((Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong))
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To: rickmichaels

The good Guv took 2 million of “the people’s cash” from Planned Parenthood...and failed to deliver on the baby murder bill.

So he sure has he#$ has something to “atone for” to the gods of liberalism.

Al Gore is dispensing his own ‘medical advice” to the good doctor..preventive medicine.


49 posted on 02/20/2019 10:13:11 AM PST by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible")
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To: rickmichaels

How much of Gore’s family fortune is invested in alt energy? Inquiring minds want to know.


50 posted on 02/20/2019 10:23:18 AM PST by Bringbackthedraft (What is earned is treasured, what is free is worth what you paid for it.)
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To: rickmichaels
Al Gore, Senator, former Vice President of the USA.
And this ignorant, silly man almost became President.
Frightening.

And then Obama came along in 2008. Obama -- Gore amplified
a thousand times. It's incredible that America has survived these idiots.
I do believe that the Creator watches over our country.
51 posted on 02/20/2019 10:28:57 AM PST by StormEye
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To: rickmichaels

PIPE, BABY, PIPE!


52 posted on 02/20/2019 10:36:44 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (Every time a lefty cries "racism", a Trump voter gets his wings.)
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To: pepsi_junkie

Northam and the black LT. governor are going to be pure gold for Trump in 2020. I can’t wait for the first debate when the democrat candidate and the media whores doing the questioning throw the race card or sexism card on Trump. He’s going to toss these two right back in their faces with gusto.


53 posted on 02/20/2019 10:39:08 AM PST by sarge83
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To: JoSixChip

Is he saying black people don’t (or would rather not) use natural gas to heat their homes, water, or cook their food?


54 posted on 02/20/2019 10:48:43 AM PST by scrabblehack
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To: rickmichaels

Man Bear Pig alert for later....


55 posted on 02/20/2019 11:15:13 AM PST by indthkr
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To: rickmichaels

So it’s basically extortion?


56 posted on 02/20/2019 11:18:40 AM PST by IronJack
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To: rickmichaels

So Al...
What should Fairfax do to atone for raping 2 women?


57 posted on 02/20/2019 11:20:10 AM PST by Palio di Siena
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To: indthkr

I love it when states reject carbon, more for the rest of us!


58 posted on 02/20/2019 11:20:13 AM PST by nascarnation
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To: rickmichaels

Wish I knew what the re-call situation is in Virginia.

Since re=call of the governor is different in each state.

Would be nice to start the ball rolling on that.


59 posted on 02/20/2019 11:43:06 AM PST by Maris Crane (.)
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To: JoSixChip
So gore speaks for all black folks?

Well he was vice president to the nations first black president, and by that I mean he was only in second place in committing vice in the White House.

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60 posted on 02/20/2019 12:26:18 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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