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photo. >> another picture also surfaced of him in 1981 with the racist nickname below it. the governor addressed that on saturday. >> there were two individuals at vmi. they were a year of me. they called me coon. i don't know their intent. that was the extent of that and it ended up in the yearbook. i regret that. >> today the man that would replace him appeared in front of cameras for the first time since the scandal broke. unlike the long list calling for resignation over the past three days he took a more diplomatic tone. >> i know there are many others that have called on him to resign. as lieutenant governor and someone that would have to assume that office so i have to be very circumspect and think
obviously you have a huge fan base. a lot of that fan base is an african-american fan base, and you got a lot of backlash that you initially defended your decision that you were performing for americans and as an african-american and as a woman, did it not give you pause because of who donald trump is and what he has said about black people, about women? >> it did not give me pause, and i know that people think that that's strange, but it used to be where an artist could be an artist and we sang, but i guess now you have to have a label and you have to be associated with something. i did think about the african-american community even though black twitter calling me coon and calling me -- aunt gem i'ma and all kinds of things and asking me to kill myself from the black community. that was hurtful because i didn't see what i had done to
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