Chairwoman Of PAC That Ran Racist Ad Appointed To Minority Affairs Office
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West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice appointed Jill Upson, chairwoman of a PAC called Black Americans for the Presidents Agenda, to head West Virginias Herbert Henderson Office of Minority Affairs just months after her organization ran a racist ad about Democrats lynching black men.
The ad, which ran in late October for Rep. French Hill (R-AK), featured two seemingly black women discussing the likelihood that white Democrats would start lynching black men as part of the #MeToo movement.
Both Hill and Upson denounced the ad Upson tried to wash her hands of any responsibility. Upon listening to the ad last night, I contacted the organizations founder and demanded that it be removed from the air and no longer played, she wrote in a Facebook post. However, her words seemed to have had no effect on the playing of the ads.