Alabama Governor Apologizes For Wearing Blackface In Racist Skit

If she has a good record of supporting minorities, and not merely exploiting them, the incident reported only matters as optics. (That is my position, which you are not obligated to agree with. I am at least consistent in my position in regard to the two governors, without regard to party affiliation.) I don’t know that she actually has such a record, and that would be my criteria for judging her. It would be the same even if we did not know about this particular incident. I do not consider Trump to be a racist chiefly due to what he did decades ago. I consider him to be a racist because his record between then and now has only confirmed it.

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How about this? I will leave you alone if you’ll leave me alone when it comes to pontificating about racism and the exploitation of minorities? I respect your right to say what you have to say, and that’s the best I can give you as a means of keeping the peace. (Besides, I want @pluckyinky to have a good honeymoon period as she returns to us, so let’s leave it there for now. Okay?)
Damn! This is a good RC cola.

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She may have to open a vein.

“While some may attempt to excuse this as acceptable behavior for a college student during the mid-1960s, that is not who I am today, and it is not what my Administration represents all these years later,” she said. “I offer my heartfelt apologies for the pain and embarrassment this causes, and I will do all I can – going forward – to help show the nation that the Alabama of today is a far cry from the Alabama of the 1960s.”

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I lost her at

“she “sincerely” doesn’t remember the interview nor the skit.”

But otherwise, some good points. Yet she knows there will be practically zero blowback from white AL voters, who are saying (I assume) ‘she sounds pretty reasonable, and apologized’.

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Who is asking to be left alone? I stated my position, and supported it, nothing more.

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Have you tried these banana flavored Moon Pies? They ain’t nowhere as good as the originals, but they’ll do in a pinch.

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This is the equivalent of Trump proclaiming that his offer of pardons was a joke. It is self-serving and grotesque.

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I believe that a Moon Pie traditionally incorporates marshmallow and chocolate. I do not care for either, which I fully realize places me in a very small minority.

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Oh! Now we are getting somewhere. Who raised you, son? You can’t not like Moon Pies! That’s somehow… unnatcheral!

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My mother, who was born and raised in Alabama. (My father is from New Jersey, so I am a hybrid.) She loves chocolate, and cannot understand my aberration, although she appreciated it at Halloween.

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Gov. Ivey is ‘also’ the politico who said she ‘believed’ the women accusing Roy Moore of ‘aggressive dating’ of underage girls BUT would still vote for him.

She comes across as SO nice, SO ‘everybody’s gramma’ and I think she deserved a place in HELL for saying that.

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Well, I feel for your poor mother. But I guess your not liking Moon Pies means there’s more for the rest of us!

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Somalian-born congresswoman from another state makes critical remarks of Israel.
Alabamans: We move to have removed from office, even though we can’t.

GOP Governor puts on blackface on racist skit and gives a lukewarm apology.
Alabamans: We forgive you.

Skeevy old pedophile decides to run for Senate office again.
Alabamans: … you get the idea

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They’re okay, but the original is still the best.

What I’m addicted to is the Deluxe Goo-Goo Cluster.
It’s a diabetic coma covered in chocolate.

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Brb

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I feel like repeating this as a response to every single comment: she said she BELIEVED THE WOMEN but would vote for Roy Moore because ‘the Supreme Court’ and she wanted a Republican Senator.

No excuse that woman ever gives for anything will ever move my heart.

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– to help show the nation that the Alabama of today is a far cry from the Alabama of the 1960s.

Yeah, except that it’s not? Early 1970s …maybe.

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