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Well, hello. Welcome to CP Time, the only show that's for the culture. Today, we'll be discussing the history of black governors.

And I know when you think of governors, you think of old white men and big mansions with the top hat and that weird monocle.

Just wear some glasses, governor. You can afford the frames. But in fact, America has a history of unknown but meaningful black governors.

Like PBS Pitchback, America's first black governor and the only politician in US history brought to you by viewers like you.

Pitchback was born in Georgia to a black slave mother and a white plantation owner who emancipated his baby mama, which would have made for one hell of a mori episode.

During his life, Pitchback, who could pass as a white man of Latin descent, leaned into his blackness, something that is known today as draking.

Pitchback got involved in politics and rose to the third highest office in the state of Louisiana, which is pro-timp of the Senate.

Not as some people believe the football coach of LSU. Then in 1872, after the lieutenant governor died and the governor was in peach, Pitchback became governor.

Because sometimes the best way for black people to take power is to just wait for somebody else to die.

Pitchback would unfortunately only hold the office for 35 days. But during that brief step, he enacted 10 laws. Proven. It's not about how long you last, fellas. It's about how efficient you are when you end there.

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After PBS Pitchback's governorship, America would not see another black person serving that role for over 100 years.

That man would be Douglas Wilder. Wilder grew up in the segregated south of the 1930s. During his time at Virginia's Union University, he experienced so much racism working at a diner, he considered poison in white people's salads, which may sound harsh.

But if you order a salad at a diner, you deserve to be poisoned. After graduating, Wilder was drafted into the army and served in the Korean War.

If you go on to win the bronze star for his heroism during the Battle of Pokchop Hill, now Pokchop Hill, that's what you want to order at a diner.

A whole big pile of Pokchops, salted and butter and garlic, and it's just a gravey, delicious.

Wilder returned to Virginia and got into politics. After serving in the Virginia Senate, in 1989, he became the first black person ever-elected governor of Virginia.

And he owed it all to his campaign slogan. Don't make me poison your salad. Move it on. Our next black governor is Deval Patrick.

Patrick was raised by a single mother on Chicago Southside after his father, a jazz musician, left his family.

Because everybody knows that jazz is all about the kids you don't raise. After graduating from Harvard Law School, Deval spent the early 80s working as a lawyer for the NAACP.

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