"When we said more black faces in government, we should have been specific."

[fleur-de-lisa]

Link to tweet

It is officially BlackFace History Month in Virginia.

[underpants]

1. Okay. That's funny.

[Decoy of Fenris]

2. The dark humor lover in me approves of this tweet. n/t

(ON EDIT: "Gallows humor" was terribly inappropriate given the context. Apologies for that.)

[lame54]

4. And you find Dark humor works better in this context?

[Decoy of Fenris]

5. Well it's "Dark humor", the one I edited out, or "Black humor." Not many choices. n/t

[fleur-de-lisa]

6. No worries.

I feel bad for laughing at this whole shit show because I really want to vomit. How did we get to this point?

[Decoy of Fenris]

7. We didn't "get" here. We've always "been" here and never left. n/t

[padah513]

8. Excellent

[lagomorph777]

3. Ouch!

As a Virginian, this hurts, but also makes me chuckle.