Jerry Falwell Jr. Apologizes For Blackface "Joke" After Staff, Alumni Revolt

[TheBlackAdder]

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Greasy Ubermensch Christian Jerry Falwell, Jr. is being as Christlike as possible.

Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. has apologized for making a racist joke on Twitter last month.

Falwell’s tweet was ostensibly an attack on Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s order that people in Virginia wear a face covering when in public establishments to stop the spread of the coronavirus infection. Falwell, an enthusiastic supporter of President Donald Trump who opposes wearing masks, posted an image of a facial covering he said he would wear. It featured a picture of a person in blackface and another in a KKK hood.

Along with apologizing on Monday, Falwell deleted the May tweet. However, it was preserved in screenshots:



The image on the mask comes from an old medical school yearbook, which some allege shows Northam in blackface. The governor claimed it was not him in the picture, but apologized for wearing blackface as part of a Michael Jackson costume in another incident from the same period.

Nearly three dozen Black pastors, ministry leaders and former athletes ― including several former NFL players ― who graduated from Liberty sent Falwell a petition that was co-signed by thousands more on Change.org.

It read in part:

The KKK robe and hood and blackface face mask tweet may seem funny to you, but this tweet is the action of a political commentator or activist and is not fitting nor acceptable for the leader of one of the largest Evangelical Christian schools in the world. A review of your social media and statements during your presidency would lead many to believe that you care much more about politics than Jesus Christ, Evangelism, and the discipleship of students.


More at the jump:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jerry-falwell-jr-blackface-apology_n_5edf399cc5b6c38e0d816e4b

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[riversedge]

1. deliberate joke. Shame on him

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Falwell Jr. was borrowing and/or riffing on the "humor and wit" of Don Jr.

He thought it was funny. He really did.

[still_one]

3. Headline should read, "Racist apologizes for racist joke, ONLY after staff and

Alumni revolt, because he would not have apologized otherwise"

[njhoneybadger]

4. Jerry Junior your a phony asshole.

And 6 day beard boy shave that shit of your face it looks awful. If you shaved a dogs ass and made it walk backwards it would look better.

[padah513]

5. Fake Christian

[pwb]

6. These Pukes think they are so clever.

Not.

[DFW]

7. Do these people know something we don't?

Everything points to their world collapsing just about 7 months and ten days from now.

And yet they continue on being their disgusting selves as if nothing was ever going to change until doomsday--which, under their rule, shouldn't be more than two or three years in coming.

[lsewpershad]

8. True Christian

Sin - apologize then pray for forgiveness.