phill4paul
02-17-2019, 06:09 PM
He a good white cracker.
RICHMOND, VA -- One floor below the Virginia State Senate chamber, Wilktion Shaw works as a cook at Meriwether’s. It’s a cafe well known to those who come to the state Capitol, cooking up soup, sandwiches and salads and serving everyone from teenage pages to elected officials in need of a quick bite.
On normal days, a steady stream of customers will come through its doors. But these aren’t normal days.
A black man who has lived in Virginia for more than 17 years, he says he isn’t surprised by the current drama.
“Things like this always happen,” he says. “There’s just a light shining on it now.”
"Attorney General Mark Herring and Governor Ralph Northam, he says, should take responsibility for their actions. But he is OK with their staying in office as they make those amends.
“I think everybody has something in their past,” said Shaw.
Anthony Ross works as a janitor at the Capitol....
“They’re just insensitive. I just assume people do that all the time,” says Ross, who is black. “I wasn’t bothered by that in the least.”
“I don’t think he’s racist,” he says of the governor. “I just don’t think he has any black friends.”
Among the protesters was Terron Sims II, an Iraq war veteran, a 2000 graduate of West Point and a member of the group Black Virginia Politicos....
“We can’t force the governor to resign,” Sims said. “This is to apply pressure for him to resign. If he were to choose to stay in, we would like him to sit down with black Democratic leaders to construct executive orders he can execute” that would benefit black Virginians.
...But he accepted the apology from Herring, who met with black legislators and others to offer his regrets.
“For us, he’s good,” said Sims. “This protest is solely about our issue with Ralph.”
Mike Brown, a Richmond city councilor who spoke at the protest, said he “loves” Northam and supported him in the past as a fellow Democrat. “I forgive him,” said Brown, “but now I want him to be accountable. We can’t put party over people.”
On the sidelines of the rally stood Altariq Ramadan, who held a copy of W.E.B. Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk, checked out from a local library. A 71-year-old Richmonder, he said he lived through segregation in the city’s Byrd Park neighborhood,...
“I think he should reconcile himself. I think he should atone,” but not resign, Ramadan said. “He needs to consult with people of color.”....
“Thomas Jefferson had slaves. Nobody impeached him,” Ramadan says. Today, “all you can do is make it better.”
See? It all be good, bruther!
https://www.thedailybeast.com/northam-given-pass-on-blackface-by-black-virginia-statehouse-workers
RICHMOND, VA -- One floor below the Virginia State Senate chamber, Wilktion Shaw works as a cook at Meriwether’s. It’s a cafe well known to those who come to the state Capitol, cooking up soup, sandwiches and salads and serving everyone from teenage pages to elected officials in need of a quick bite.
On normal days, a steady stream of customers will come through its doors. But these aren’t normal days.
A black man who has lived in Virginia for more than 17 years, he says he isn’t surprised by the current drama.
“Things like this always happen,” he says. “There’s just a light shining on it now.”
"Attorney General Mark Herring and Governor Ralph Northam, he says, should take responsibility for their actions. But he is OK with their staying in office as they make those amends.
“I think everybody has something in their past,” said Shaw.
Anthony Ross works as a janitor at the Capitol....
“They’re just insensitive. I just assume people do that all the time,” says Ross, who is black. “I wasn’t bothered by that in the least.”
“I don’t think he’s racist,” he says of the governor. “I just don’t think he has any black friends.”
Among the protesters was Terron Sims II, an Iraq war veteran, a 2000 graduate of West Point and a member of the group Black Virginia Politicos....
“We can’t force the governor to resign,” Sims said. “This is to apply pressure for him to resign. If he were to choose to stay in, we would like him to sit down with black Democratic leaders to construct executive orders he can execute” that would benefit black Virginians.
...But he accepted the apology from Herring, who met with black legislators and others to offer his regrets.
“For us, he’s good,” said Sims. “This protest is solely about our issue with Ralph.”
Mike Brown, a Richmond city councilor who spoke at the protest, said he “loves” Northam and supported him in the past as a fellow Democrat. “I forgive him,” said Brown, “but now I want him to be accountable. We can’t put party over people.”
On the sidelines of the rally stood Altariq Ramadan, who held a copy of W.E.B. Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk, checked out from a local library. A 71-year-old Richmonder, he said he lived through segregation in the city’s Byrd Park neighborhood,...
“I think he should reconcile himself. I think he should atone,” but not resign, Ramadan said. “He needs to consult with people of color.”....
“Thomas Jefferson had slaves. Nobody impeached him,” Ramadan says. Today, “all you can do is make it better.”
See? It all be good, bruther!
https://www.thedailybeast.com/northam-given-pass-on-blackface-by-black-virginia-statehouse-workers