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(AP) – A black Virginia state senator says several people were crying as Attorney General Mark Herring met with black lawmakers to discuss Herring’s admission that he had dressed in blackface when he was in college.
Democratic Sen. Louise Lucas says Herring and the lawmakers held an emotional meeting Wednesday morning.
She says people were crying “all around the table,” including men. She says it also looked like Herring cried.
Herring revealed Wednesday that he wore brown makeup and a wig in 1980 to look like a black rapper during a party as an undergraduate at the University of Virginia.
Lucas says Herring apologized during the meeting and asked, “Where do we go from here?”
The lawmakers told Herring that they needed to discuss their next steps among themselves.
