Falwell apologizes for tweet showing person in blackface

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Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. apologizes for a tweet that included a racist photo that appeared on Gov. Northam's medical school yearbook page decades ago.

An online instructor for Liberty, a black pastor who also teaches at Ithaca College, also announced his resignation online in response to the tweet.

In late May, Falwell tweeted his opposition to a mask mandate from Gov. Ralph Northam in order to help stop the spread of the coronavirus. Falwell told The Associated Press at the time that his comment about the blackface scandal was made in defense of Liberty students, including minorities, who would be affected by tuition assistance cuts in a budget passed by the state legislature and signed by Northam.

Whether Falwell's apology quells what had become a growing tide of criticism of his leadership style and occasionally inflammatory comments remains an open question.

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Just another New Christian. They have substituted hate for love.

Look into the past of any bigot profit preachers family, and this is what you will find. proof of what they are.

So you're wanting to go back in history and apologize for entertainment. Who could have guessed there making it racist today. What was right from the beginning is still right today. Domestic Terror is against the law

Hipacrit. I do not believe in a God and he just wants to make an easy living taking your money.

They are reporting what a lot of us already knew.

Jacking off in the name of his 'lord'!

Decades ago!!!

Apologies don’t make a truly bad person good.

Falwell’s a fraud

JerryFalwellJr is shameless. He is a president of a university. Then again, there is an equally shameless man in the WH. It is time that we stop believing their BS. They want a return to shameful period in American history. We need better. Our children deserve a better country.

Blacks paint their faces white all the time

He’s not sorry,he’s upset he was found out.

Falwell comes from a family of extreme homophobes and being racist fits right in with the xenophobia. I remember the big deal his dad made over Teletubbies of all things, because Tinky Winky carried a purse. 'Christians'... Hypocrites more likley.

Moron

NO!!! They purposely do it and then they apologize...only when their wallets are going to take a hit... he needs to go.

You’re not forgiven.

So Falwell is in trouble for northam being in blackface? How do you guys get there?

You mean this one ? I won’t apologize for a Democrat being a racist. Stop bending the knee to the cancel culture mob .

Apologizing for showing everyone the Governor’s a racist ... really?

It WAS Governor Northam dressed in blackface. This is the most weasels tweet I have ever seen.

What does wearing a mask hurt in the first place? Politicize a public health measure?

FakeChristian

Yeah. “Sorry I got caught”! Fuck off JerryFalwellJr

He looks like the cop who murdered George Floyd

He’s not apologizing, he’s reopening the story.

You’re fired

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