Pam Northam is under fire for handing the African American daughter of a state employee raw cotton on a tour of the Executive Mansion and making a reference to slavery. “I regret that I have upset anyone,” Pam Northam said Wednesday in a statement emailed by the governor’s spokeswoman, Ofirah Yheskel. “I will give you the benefit of the doubt, because you gave it to some other pages,” the girl wrote to Pam Northam. Stanley declined to make his daughter available for an interview, but said she told him that Pam Northam handed the cotton around to all of the students. Two days later, Stanley’s wife got the same tour from Pam Northam and found it “poignant,” he said.

Source: Washington Post February 27, 2019 22:16 UTC