The sign, directed toward black Virginia gubernatorial candidate Winsome Sears, belonged to a member of a far-left activist group that knocks doors for Spanberger
A white supporter of Abigail Spanberger, a Democrat running for Virginia governor, held up a racist sign Thursday evening to protest against black Republican gubernatorial candidate Winsome Earle-Sears.
“Hey Winsome, If Trans Can’t Share Your Bathroom Then Blacks Can’t Share My Water Fountain,” the protester’s sign reads, according to photos originally posted on X by journalist Brandon Jarvis. Her shirt displayed “WoFava,” short for We of Action, an Arlington-based far-left group that has canvassed for Spanberger and promotes a September canvassing event in support of the Democrat on its website.
Was just sent a picture of this person with this sign outside of Arlington’s school board meeting. pic.twitter.com/Ie0UC84jxR
— Brandon Jarvis (@Jaaavis) August 21, 2025
We of Action, which describes itself as “a movement for change, advocating for justice, fair elections, and civil rights,” often sends demonstrators to protest Republicans and has engaged in theatrical “resistance art,” plastering highway bridges with protest signs and staging publicity stunts.
We of Action also describes itself as an “Indivisible group,” referring to the multimillion-dollar network Indivisible, which has bankrolled many left-wing protests against President Donald Trump and former presidential adviser Elon Musk. Earlier this year, Indivisible provided local activists with a “reimbursement program” to cover expenses—including “chicken suits”— associated with protesting what it called the “Trump-Musk coup,” the Washington Free Beacon reported.
Earle-Sears quickly condemned the racist sign, writing in a statement on X, “I’m disgusted, but not surprised. This is the ‘tolerant’ left Abigail Spanberger defends.”
“I’m an immigrant, a Marine, and above all, a human being,” Earle-Sears went on. “There is no place for this disgusting hatred in our Commonwealth. Anyone who doesn’t condemn this sign is complicit in approving it.”
Spanberger issued a statement criticizing the sign, calling it “racist, abhorrent, and unacceptable.”
The woman was one of several We of Action protesters outside a Thursday evening Arlington County School Board meeting, where Earle-Sears, Virginia’s incumbent lieutenant governor, delivered remarks. During the meeting, Earle-Sears condemned district rules that allow transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms based on self-declared “gender identity” rather than biological sex.
Virginia Democrats quickly recognized that the sign would spark backlash. In addition to the statement from Spanberger, a video posted on X shows a man telling the sign-holding protester that her sign is “getting a lot of play on TV right now—negative.”
Here appears to be the moment she found out that her sign is getting a lot of attention https://t.co/1vs2gHGzIH pic.twitter.com/BluiXPZ9aM
— Brandon Jarvis (@Jaaavis) August 22, 2025
