From today's "WTF???" file

Would someone please explain to me why what looks like a late 19th century woodcut of a terrified black man who looks like he's about to be lynched is doing on a Republican committee web site? Scroll down to the bottom of the page. It's just sitting there with no caption, no explanation. Is this some kind of code?

According to Tim Kaine, Chesterfield County is 18% African-American, but ALL of the elected officials are white.

Republicans can scream all they want about Jim Crow-era Democrats and Robert Byrd's KKK affiliation in the 1950's, an affiliation he regrets (OK, trolls, you don't have to bring up that old chestnut again, I just did it for you), but the fact of the matter is that the "Dixiecrats" all changed over to the Republican party, and you don't see this image on any Democrat's web site, not even Robert Byrd's.

Pam Spaulding and Steve Gilliard have covered the topic of the Republican Party sucking up to black clergy far better than I can, but it seems to me that selling out out their flocks to a party that still uses imagery like this, just because a couple of guys want to get married is somewhat of a Faustian bargain.