OPINION: Virginia Attorney General Herring admits to cooning too, amid black face controversy with Gov. Northam, should resign
Mona Austin Pictured above: Journalist Mona Austin and Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring "Virginia is for Losers" is the headline on the cover of the New York post, prompted by the top three political leaders in the state being involved in controversies that could cost them their jobs. It is a sarcastic play on the states theme, "Virginia is for lovers." Two of the men in question, Gov. Ralph Northam and Attorney General Mark Herring are connected to reports about them wearing black face during their college years. Northam initially apologized when a photo of someone in black face standing next to someone in KKK garb emerged, then the next day held a press conference saying that it was not him in the pic. Herring came forth after rumors of a black face pic of him, admitting that he had indeed worn black face to in reflection of his favorite rapper. Then there is Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, the lone Black man in the upper ranks of state leadership. He ...