First off, it is unlikely if I would have voted for this this guy if I were a Virginian.
But I don't believe in silliness, or virtue signaling, and I DO believe in fairness.
Whatever this guy did- it was THIRTY FIVE YEARS AGO.and it wasn't like he lynched a black man.
Are People not incapable of change???
Here's the missing story .
If he's a KKK level racist wouldn't there be multiple incidents of racism over the past 35 years?
Maybe there were- but I haven't seen any!
That's a short sighted view. I
just wrote how this issue relates to the broken windows theory:
"Broken windows" is the socio-criminological theory that crime begins in communities where neglect has physically manifested, a readily obvious example being broken windows in homes that have been allowed to go unrepaired. The signal sent is that this is an acceptable place to do other deviant things because the community is not dedicated to the idea of making itself beautiful or safe. If you see a broken window, you assume you can litter. And if you see both broken windows and litter, you assume you can do graffiti. And if you see all three you assume that vandalism is acceptable. The assumption (a proven and correct one) is that if a resident sees a break-in or a drug deal, he will not report it to the police because he has essentially forsaken his own neighborhood.
The broken window in this case is a politician having done black face, and the criminals that move into the forsaken neighborhood are full-on White Supremacists, because they'll assume that the Democratic Party is a place that will be tolerant of them or pretend they don't exist.
Republicans have been looking the other way from their own broken windows for decades. Because Republicans were dismissive that that this was an issue for them, White Supremacists have moved out of the shadows and have become a fully entrenched and dominant voice within the Republican Party to the point that White Supremacists now even occupy the White House.
Everything you do has a price you pay down the road. Republicans looked the other way and now White Supremacists have taken over their party, but Republicans are hardly the only ones with short-term vision. Democrats looked the other way when Clinton defiled the office of the Presidency by having an affair with an intern and then lying under oath about it. Democrats insisted this wasn't a big deal or an impeachable offense, and regardless of whether or not you agree with this, the price that Democrats paid at the polls in 2016 was horrific: having robbed themselves of moral currency on that kind of issue, Republicans were able to press forward with a candidate that was objectively worse on the pretext that they didn't need to explain themselves to critics who gave Bill Clinton a mulligan for his transgressions.
And of course, Republicans have abandoned all morality and ethics so totally that they have now robbed themselves of any moral currency for generations. And there's a really long term price we all pay. When just one side has been completely robbed of moral currency to criticize, the dividend is that the country as a whole suffers.