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1/ Just to give you a sense of how little #Northam really appreciates the gravity of blackface, consider his resistance to resigning even though he literally owes his victory to black Virginians. So, here's the thought experiment...
2/ Imagine he had been pictured in his yearbook or at some other point not in blackface or Klan robes but wearing sidecurls, tzitzit, a kippah and a nose prosthetic (in a grotesque caricature of Jews). In such a situation there is NO chance he wouldn't have resigned by now...
3/ And this is true, even though the Jewish vote would NOT have been a key to his victory. But here the black vote WAS and he still resists. Which suggests he doesn't really think blackface is that bad, and that he doesn't truly value black Virginians as he claims...
4/ Oh sure, he wants their votes, relies on their votes, and generally endorses positions with which they agree. But on a personal level he doesn't really view their interests and lives as equal to (let alone above) his own ambitions...
5/ That he would not have held on this long had he been guilty of the anti-Jewish example above also demonstrates how too many people still place black suffering and pain below any (mostly) white group, whose humanity most still realize (with some obvious exceptions of course)..
