Blackface For Clowns Only

Wrote a friend in Williamsburg. Have you been asked yet to serve as Virginia’s governor?

I was a big fan as a child of Al Jolson and Emmett Kelly and nobody of color lived in our town until I was like fifteen.

Had no idea blackface was this appalling.

At least to Democrats.

Never thought Virginia suburbs’ Washington Redskins was racist. Until a man with red skin told me so.

And I have high cheekbones.

Had a Jewish girlfriend once – I’m no anti-Semite – who moved to Iowa and the farmers’ wives came by to see if it was true, Did the Jewess have a tail?

That was some fifty years ago, back when people like me were backward and stupid. Or didn’t know any better.

How about you?

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