Winsome Earle-Sears is the current Lieutenant Governor of Virginia and also the Republican candidate for governor. When Sears showed up at a school board meeting to talk about transgender issues in education, a liberal white woman was holding a vile sign that read, “Hey Winsome, if trans can’t share your bathroom, then blacks can’t share my water fountain.”
It’s positively stunning that no one thought to tell this woman to get rid of the sign. Winsome Earle-Sears is black; her family came to America from Jamaica in the 1970s.
People expressed disgust on Twitter/X.
Eventually, someone pointed out to this woman that her sign was being noticed. Watch:
Winsome responded.
Abigail Spanberger, the Democrat candidate in the race, released a tepid condemnation through her campaign.
ABC News in Virginia reported:
Brandon Jarvis, a local journalist and the man behind Virginia Scope, posted photos to X of the other side of that sign — which contained a racist statement targeting Earle-Sears, who is Black.“Hey Winsome, if trans can’t share your bathroom, then Blacks can’t share my water fountain,” the other side reads.As the photo Jarvis posted circulates online, Virginia leaders — including Earle-Sears, herself — are sharing their reactions.“I’m disgusted, but not surprised,” Earle-Sears said on X. “This is the ‘tolerant’ left Abigail Spanberger defends. I’m the sitting Lieutenant Governor, second in command in the former Capitol of the confederate states. I’m an immigrant, a Marine and above all, a human being. There is no place for this disgusting hatred in our Commonwealth. Anyone who doesn’t condemn this sign is complicit in approving it.”Spanberger, the Democratic nominee for Virginia governor and Earle-Sears’ opponent, shared the following statement with 8News:“Abigail condemns this repulsive display. It’s racist, abhorrent and unacceptable.”
Amazingly, this video report from WUSA 9 features a clear shot of the sign, but it’s never even mentioned.
Abigail Spanberger has been leading this race in most polls, but Winsome Sears has been rapidly closing the gap just within the last week.
Featured image via YouTube.
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