The latest spin in Virginia is “Everyone did blackface”. We are seeing countless stories normalizing the behavior.
Personally, I think the blackface issue is not the important one. The important issue should be the governors stance on infanticide, but that has taken second place to an issue about dressing up as someone else. People do all sorts of outrageous and sometimes funny things when they come up with creative (or not so creative) costumes for Halloween or other occasions. That act of putting on a costume, blackface or not, may or may not hurt someone's "feeeelings", but its no crime and feelings aren't protected by law, or at least they weren't.
Bad judgement? Yes. Do people want to vote someone who wore a KKK hood as a youth prank into office? Probably not. But its still not baby murder.
And the reaction from the holier than thou black community who are so outraged by 'blackface' is so hypocritical when they dismiss the irresponsibility in their own race regarding the values of raising their kids, keeping them off drugs or away from crime, being absent parents, and teaching hate or that all their troubles are the result of whitey.