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VA Lieutenant Governor Justin E. Fairfax "is only the second African-American in history, and the first in nearly 30 years since the tenure of Governor L. Douglas Wilder, to be elected to statewide office in Virginia." ltgov.virginia.gov
Justin Fairfax's lonely stand 2 weeks ago washingtonpost.com/local/virginia…
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Both the Bureau of Prisons and the cabinet agency it’s in, the Department of Justice, have acting heads at this time. So I believe President Trump is the only elected or confirmed official in the entire chain of command, and he’s on a golfing trip to Florida.
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“It wasn’t me in the racist photo. And someone else somehow chose this horrific photo for my yearbook page. And they didn’t ask me first. And the photo actually had nothing to do with my life. And I never once saw own page in the yearbook when it came out or for decades after.”
my own*

is that where we’re headed with this?
“Also a whole other yearbook editor did me dirty by including in a different yearbook a nickname that actually I didn’t have. I never learned any of this until now because of my lifelong policy of not looking at yearbooks I’m in.”
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