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Virginia's Attorney General admits to wearing blackface in college, dressing up like rapper Kurtis Blow

I work with a bunch of incredibly smart and kind people, but right now I'm scratching my head in utter disbelief. One of our senior editors said she is "shocked" by this latest revelation out of Virginia -- that No. 3 in line to the governor's mansion now admits that he dressed as Kurtis Blow for a party in 1980.

Shocked????

I can see disgusted, angered, disappointed. But shocked?

I would say "Have you ever been to the South?" But what I'm almost thinking is, "Have you ever been outside your apartment?"

And she's not even young. I don't exactly know what I'm getting at here. But are we sure we as good liberals aren't doing ourselves a major disservice by (in my opinion) pretending that you think this stuff didn't -- and doesn't continue to -- go on?

I'm the one who's shocked.

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