US politician: Let's mark end of slavery

A politician who enraged black leaders by saying black Virginians “should just get over” slavery, has changed his message, proposing celebrating the end of slavery instead.

US politician: Let's mark end of slavery

A politician who enraged black leaders by saying black Virginians “should just get over” slavery, has changed his message, proposing celebrating the end of slavery instead.

Delegate Frank Hargrove attracted criticism from across the US earlier this month after telling a newspaper he opposed a legislative resolution offering an official apology for slavery because no one living today was involved in it.

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