A white Republican running for Mississippi attorney general says he's 'embarrassed' about taking part in a college skit 40 years ago in which other actors wore blackface
JACKSON, Miss. — A white Republican running for Mississippi attorney general said Thursday that he is"embarrassed" about taking part in a college skit 40 years ago in which other actors wore blackface.A photo in the 1979 yearbook for Mississippi College shows Taggart and three other white students depicting poker players during recruiting for a social club at the Baptist school. A person in blackface was speaking to them. Taggart was student body president that year.
The Democratic governor and attorney general of Virginia both came under sharp criticism this year after saying they had worn blackface in college in the 1980s. "It's not a coincidence that a windshield is way bigger than a rearview mirror," Taggart said."It's because we ought to be spending a lot more time looking forward than looking back. And that has not always been true in our state."
In Mississippi, Republican Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves, who is running for governor, was a member of Kappa Alpha fraternity at Millsaps College in the mid-1990s, and a 1995 yearbook photo showed KA members dressed in Confederate costumes. Reeves has not answered questions about whether he also dressed that way. Such costumes were commonly worn at KA Old South parties in Mississippi and other parts of the South for many years.
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