klehner wrote:
GreenPlease wrote:
Whether or not his statement is historically accurate is kind of beside the point. This guy is clearly not good at managing his public image. He’s pretty damn good at digging a hole though.This is the 400th anniversary of indentured servants coming to Virginia, and before slavery. What should he have said, if not the truth as he said it? Should he have assumed the ignorance of those, apparently like Big Kahuna, who immediately demonstrated their ignorance instead of looking it up, and said something about slavery that didn't pertain to said 400th anniversary?
Up until his week of reckoning he was clueless with regards to historical matters of race in his state of Va, so yes on his enlightenment, why would it not occur to him that others might also be so clueless? This man is no savvy politician and he does not exercise good judgment.