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| Subject: Delightful: The complete and utter collapse of Virginia's Democratic Party Wed Feb 06, 2019 10:36 pm | |
| That sound you hear is Virginia's Democratic Party collapsing on itself.
In the last six days, the following things have happened:
- Gov. Ralph Northam said he was in a picture in his medical school yearbook of two people -- one in blackface, the other in KKK robes. He then recanted and said he wasn't in that picture. But he added that he *had* darkened his face to look more like Michael Jackson for a dance contest in 1984.
- A woman named Vanessa Tyson accused Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax of assaulting her during the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston. Fairfax angrily denied the allegations. Then on Wednesday Tyson released a statement, in which she said in part "what began as consensual kissing quickly turned into a sexual assault."
- State Attorney General Mark Herring, in a statement released Wednesday morning, acknowledged that he, too, had appeared in blackface at a party. "In 1980, when I was a 19-year-old undergraduate in college, some friends suggested we attend a party dressed like rappers we listened to at the time, like Kurtis Blow, and perform a song," Herring said.
What. The. Actual. Hell.
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/02/06/politics/herring-northam-fairfax-virginia-democrats/index.html
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