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There are more governors who have worn blackface than black governors

This claim was easy to fact-check: There are zero black governors for the 50 states. But there are two governors who’ve apologized for wearing blackface.

Out of 50 sitting governors, 47 are white, and the remaining three are Hispanic, Asian American and Native American.

Only two African Americans have been elected governor, with the most recent being Democrat Deval Patrick, who was voted into office in Massachusetts in 2006. Democrat Douglas Wilder had previously been elected as Virginia’s governor, a post he held from 1990 to 1994.

Before Wilder’s election, the only black governor had been P. B. S. Pinchback, who stepped in as Louisiana’s governor for 34 days in 1872 while the incumbent faced impeachment.

https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2019/sep/06/samuel-sinyangwe/its-true-there-are-more-governors-who-have-worn-bl/

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