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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRalph Northam campaign flyers omitted his black running mate...folks acting like he's not racist?
There's a trend..it's a mindset, not just something he did when he was 25..he needs to go, Mon won't be too soon..
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/reeks-of-subtle-racism-tensions-after-black-candidate-left-off-fliers-in-virginia/2017/10/18/de74c47a-b425-11e7-a908-a3470754bbb9_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.e4167417f41b
Earlier this week, The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported that a batch of Democratic campaign cards distributed in Northern Virginia omitted the photo and any reference to Justin Fairfax. Hes the 38-year-old African-American lawyer from Annandale whos running for lieutenant governor with Northam.
The Fairfax-free flyers were printed, the Northam campaign claims, at the behest of the Laborers International Union of North America, which supports a gas pipeline through Virginia. The pipeline is opposed by many environmentalists, including Fairfax.
The union refused to endorse him.
In a Washington Post story, Black Democrat omitted from some Democratic campaign fliers in Virginia, the founder of an organization that supports black candidates said Northams Fairfax-less literature reeks of subtle racism while the president of the Loudon County NAACP denounced the flyers with less inflammatory but equally damning language.
A lot of us feel the Virginia Democratic Party has never been a very inclusive group, Phillip Thompson said. And they always kind of marginalize African Americans without providing any grounds for advancement.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)But how many related things must come to light before reasonable people make reasonable inferences?
HipChick
(25,485 posts)For some folks..
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)All it takes are open eyes and an open mind.
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)HipChick
(25,485 posts)I can be all kinds of petty but Karma is a bitch..
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)He's run out of mulligans.
LovingA2andMI
(7,006 posts)When Governor (To Be) Justin Fairfax Takes Power -- He Should Plant Is Inauguration Photo Right In Front Of Ralph Northam's Home!!
#ByeRalph #GTFO
Ms. Toad
(34,127 posts)Voters can choose a Democratic governor and a Republican lieutenant governor.
The palm cards were produced by the Democractic party for a group of canvassers who did not endorse Fairfax.
Should the Democratic Party have assented to the wishes of the canvassers - probably not (they were probably afraid they would lose the canvassers if they insisted on having them distribute literature for a candidate they did not endorse - seems like a bad decision, especially in retrospect).
That's a slightly different take, though, than attributing racist intent to Northam (rather than the Democratic party) for excluding a running mate (when they weren't running mates - and the exclusion was at the request came from a group of canvassers)
MadDAsHell
(2,067 posts)MineralMan
(146,351 posts)Disgusting!