Dick Black, Virginia's Most Prude State Senator, Just Shook Hands With a Murderous Dictator and Liked It
Andy Cush · 04/29/16 10:35AM![](http://d20hvt89h2l7r8.cloudfront.net/bztpxeyjqxmiqs7grnno/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.png)
Virginia State Senator Richard Black, who is perhaps best known to Gawker readers as a guy who melted down at a teacher over fictional depictions of sex and violence, recently met and shook hands with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who is best known the world over for unrepentantly slaughtering thousands of his own people. Black said after the summit that he was “very proud to meet his excellency, the president.”