Virginia’s attorney general on Wednesday admitted to having worn blackface at a college party, becoming the state’s third high-ranking Democrat caught up in scandal since the release Friday of a racist photo from Governor Ralph Northam’s medical school yearbook.
Attorney General Mark Herring said in a statement that he had donned brown face paint at a party in 1980 to impersonate a rapper, four days after Northam admitted having worn blackface – a practice that dates to 19th century minstrel shows caricaturing slaves – in 1984 to impersonate Michael Jackson.
Virginia’s Lt. Governor, Justin E. Fairfax, is also facing allegations of sexual assault.
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