Governor Ralph Northam Can't Erase Slavery

On Sunday, February 10, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam appeared on Face the Nation with journalist Gayle King in a bid for redemption in his ongoing blackface scandal. Northam began the conversation by referencing Virginia’s current commemoration of John Rolfe’s description of the arrival of “20. and Odd Negroes” in Virginia in August 1619. Northam ind…