The celebration of the birth of democracy in America and the honor of standing in the footsteps of my enslaved ancestors as a statewide elected official far supersede the petty and racist actions of the current occupant of the White House.

Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, the second African-American elected to statewide office there, on why he did not join the boycott of an event to commemorate Jamestown. The state's black lawmakers refused to go in order to protest President Trump's attendance.