- Jerry Falwell Jr. apologizes for tweet that included racist photo
"Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. apologized Monday for a tweet that included a racist photo that appeared on DEMOCRAT Gov. Ralph Northam’s medical school yearbook page decades ago.
"After listening to African American LU leaders and alumni over the past week and hearing their concerns, I understand that by tweeting an image to remind all of the governor's racist past I actually refreshed the trauma that image had caused and offended some by using the image to make a political point," he tweeted Monday.
Falwell, a stalwart backer of President Donald Trump and the son of the late evangelist the Rev. Jerry Falwell, said he had deleted the tweet and apologized "for any hurt my effort caused, especially within the African American community."...They said they would stop urging students to attend Liberty, would no longer donate to the university and would urge fellow people of faith to avoid speaking at the school unless Falwell changes his behavior or steps aside.
...Falwell tweeted that he was "adamantly opposed" to the mask mandate "until I decided to design my own."
With it, he posted a picture of a mask bearing a racist photo that appeared on DEMOCRAT Northam's medical yearbook page and — when made public last year — sparked a scandal that nearly forced him from office.
The photo showed a person in blackface and another in a Ku Klux Klan costume.
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