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At an event in Jamestown, Virginia Tuesday, President Trump celebrated the contributions African-Americans have to American society, saying: “African Americans have built, strengthened, inspired, uplifted, protected, defended, and sustained our nation.”
But ABC’s World News Tonight and CBS Evening News instead chose to hype the Virginia Legislative Black Caucus who boycotted the event with Democratic state delegate Delores McQuinn exclaiming: “We must never allow anyone to dismantle and to erode democracy.”
But neither network mentioned those same Democrats were still working Governor Ralph Northam, who earlier this year was wrapped up in his own racism scandal when medical school photos showed him in either blackface or a Ku Klux Klan hood. He would later admit that he had worn blackface before while dressing as singer Michael Jackson. Despite public outcry, Northam remains the governor.
After reporting that 80 percent of black voters in a Quinnipiac poll thought Trump was racist, CBS correspondent Errol Barnett suggested: “The President's tone changed at a ceremony here in Jamestown, marking 400 years since the first legislative assembly in America and the arrival of the first enslaved Africans.”
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