Let’s Be Honest: Virginia’s Budget Is Racist

Are black tourists having trouble coming to Virginia?

How about “indigenous” visitors?

Hispanics?

I only ask because buried on page 122 of the hastily assembled 600-page budget Democrats finally finished on Friday - 100 days late - is this intriguing item:

“$1,500,000 the first year and $1,500,000 the second year out of this appropriation from the general fund is provided for the Virginia Tourism Authority to develop a marketing campaign to attract out-of-state visitors from black, indigenous and Hispanic communities.”

Just curious. Why do we care what color our tourists are, as long as their money is green? After all, the entire purpose of a media campaign to make Virginia attractive to visitors is so they will come here and blow a wad of money.

If anything, the authority should be targeting wealthy zip codes where the residents have lots of loot.

But that’s not the way virtue-signaling racists think. For reasons that boggle the mind, they want to pick the complexion of tourists.

Imagine, for a moment, if the General Assembly decided to set aside $3 million to attract white tourists.

We’d be hearing about Jim Crow 2.0 and white supremacy.

And they’d be right.

So let’s just call the architects of this sloppy budget item what they are: Racists.