By the law of averages, you had to figure it wasn’t only Democrats with this particular skeleton in their closets
Kay Ivey is a prominent defender of the Old Ways in Alabama, but is now having to backtrack. Photo: Butch Dill/AP/Shutterstock Republicans in Virginia and beyond have had great sport with the “blackface scandals” that struck two Democratic statewide officials, Governor Ralph Northam and Attorney General Mark Herring, earlier this year.
Gov. Kay Ivey is contacting state legislators, and apologizing for her role in a racist student skit from her time as an Auburn student.Photos of her sorority sisters in blackface emerged earlier this year. None showed the governor.But Thursday she apologized after audio emerged of a skit at a Baptist Student Union Party. The audio is a radio interview of Ivey and her then-fiance, Ben LaRavia. He describes Ivey as wearing blue coveralls and said she “had put some black paint all over her face.
I offer my heartfelt apologies for the pain and embarrassment this causes, and I will do all I can – going forward – to help show the nation that the Alabama of today is a far cry from the Alabama of the 1960s. [H]er first reelection ad boasts of her efforts to preserve the state’s many Confederate monuments, and scores the “politically correct nonsense” from “folks in Washington” suggesting that the self-styled Heart of Dixie might need to come to grips with its past in the kind of ways that “special interest groups” recommend.In a campaign appearance after the ad went up, Ivey doubled down on the old-timey rhetoric, attacking “out-of-state liberals” for messing with Alabama’s fine heritage.
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