VA Republican party sent around a picture of Obama with a bullet through his head

It was just a joke, they're now claiming.  From a state that used to lynch black people.  From a state that only four decades ago fought in the Supreme Court to stop blacks from marrying whites.  From a state that brought us "macaca."  And from a state that still oppresses its gay minority.

Maybe it was a joke (a joke that's a felony).  Or maybe it was another sad look into the soul of yet another southern state that just can't get beyond its seriously entrenched bigotry.