VA Scandal Widens

From the BBC:

"Virginia's attorney general admits wearing blackface in college"

Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring has acknowledged wearing "brown makeup" to a party, days after the state governor admitting wearing blackface. The second-in-line to the governor's seat said in a statement on Wednesday that he wore a costume to a party when he was 19 years old at university.  Mr Herring had joined calls for Governor Ralph Northam to quit over a racist photo and blackface scandal. The lieutenant governor is meanwhile battling a sex assault claim.  All three men are Democrats. If they were to resign over these controversies, Virginia could be led by the Republican Speaker of the House of Delegates, Kirk Cox. On Saturday, Mr Herring joined a chorus of fellow Democrats calling on Mr Northam to resign after an image surfaced from his 1984 medical yearbook page showing a person in blackface, and another in Ku Klux Klan robes.  Mr Northam has denied it was him in the racist photo, but has acknowledged wearing blackface on a separate occasion that year while dressing up as Michael Jackson. Mr Herring said it was "no longer possible" for Mr Northam to serve as governor  But on Wednesday the Democratic attorney general confessed to having used blackface himself. Mr Herring said that in 1980, he and his friends donned costumes after "some friends suggested we attend a party dressed like rappers we listened to at the time, like Kurtis Blow, and perform a song". "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," he said. "That conduct clearly shows that, as a young man, I had a callous and inexcusable lack of awareness and insensitivity to the pain my behaviour could inflict on others." Mr Herring did not offer to step down and wrote of his "efforts to empower communities of colour" and "to combat the rise in hate crimes and white supremacist violence that is plaguing our Commonwealth and our country".

^ There is just something inherently wrong with Virginia and native Virginians (ie. not implants living there because of the Federal Government or US Military.) ^

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47148045