re: #66 Renaissance_Man

Well, I think there’s a significant difference between Ralph Northam’s offence and this event. A minstrel costume and a KKK costume are explicitly racist symbols. Dressing as a contemporary rapper really isn’t. Again, I am willing to listen to contrary viewpoints and I realise my opinion may be one of ignorance, but I’m not especially offended.

All I can say is the time to make distinctions and discuss the realities of racial politics in the 80s was last Friday, when the whole thing initially began and we could have looked like we were being a party that accepted people who had changed and progressed past the ignorance of the past.

Now? Now it looks like political opportunism, giving Herring a pass so we can avoid giving up the entire VA leadership to the VA GOP.