A student criticized Pam Northam, whose husband Ralph was the subject of a blackface scandal just weeks ago.
Virginia’s first lady is the subject of harsh criticism for handing raw cotton to two black students while giving a historical tour of the Executive Mansion’s former slave quarters, asking the students to consider what it would have been like to be a slave.
“There are only three black pages in the page class of 2019,” the letter reportedly reads. “When you went to hand out the cotton you handed it straight to another African-American page, then you proceeded to hand it to me. I did not take it. The other page took the cotton, but it made her very uncomfortable. I will give you the benefit of the doubt, because you gave it to some other pages.
“The governor and Mrs. Northam have asked the residents of the Commonwealth to forgive them for their racially insensitive past actions,” said Walker, according to the Washington Post. “But the actions of Mrs. Northam, just last week, do not lead me to believe that this governor’s office has taken seriously the harm and hurt they have caused African-Americans in Virginia or that they are deserving of our forgiveness.
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