BREAKING: VA Governor Ralph Northam Admits He Was in Racist Yearbook Photo, Apologizes

BREAKING: VA Governor Ralph Northam Admits He Was in Racist Yearbook Photo, Apologizes

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has now apologized over a racist photo in his 1984 yearbook, unearthed on Friday, that showed one person in blackface and another dressed in a KKK robe.

Northam confirmed in a statement he’s in the photo — though he did not reveal whether he was dressed in blackface or the KKK robe — and apologized:

Calling the costume “clearly racist and offensive,” the Virginia Democrat said he was “deeply sorry for the decision I made to appear as I did in this photo.”

The governor did not say he plans to resign, but pledged to “heal the damage this conduct has caused.”


https://www.mediaite.com/online/bla...vernor-northams-yearbook-page-shocks-twitter/

he needs to be run out of office because any republican surely would be

if the democrat party doesn't take action and demand this racist to resign
they will never be able to play the race card ever again

 

I figured this would be 24/7 news, but then I saw he's a democrat.

Move along, nothing to see here

 

This is literally one million times worse than Kavanaugh and his use of alcohol in high school & college.

If he was a Republican, this governor would be long gone by now. But Dems are allowed to wear black face or a Klan sheet.

The party of Jim Crow strikes again.

 

Wow. I was going to go after the Republicans for being hypocritical for doing guilt by association as liberals did with Kavanaugh but him being in that photo changes everything.

First day of Black History Month as well. Someone in the RNC played this one pretty good.

 

Watch our inhouse liberals will be mysteriously absent from this thread

 

What about their socks? Will they show up?

Socks are very warm and comfy.

 

So the Democrats are of course going to say the PROVEN racism when he was in college disqualify him from office and demand he resign.

This just a few days ago.

Carlton: A Republican in blackface? Not a good image
Florida's new secretary of state resigned last week when photos of him dressed as a female Katrina victim in blackface surfaced. The image can't be good for Republicans.

The longtime Republican elections supervisor from Seminole County got to be Florida's secretary of state for about two and a half minutes before photos came to light showing him doing something so colossally stupid and offensive it was hard to believe what we were seeing.

There he was, 13 years ago, in photos obtained by the Tallahassee Democrat, dressed up for Halloween as a busty woman. He wore a New Orleans Saints bandana wrapped around his head, big earrings and a shirt that said "Katrina Victim."
https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/co...lican-in-blackface-not-a-good-image-20190127/

Well Governor, we await your resignation.

 

It WASN"T Kavanaugh's use of alcohol it was his LYING while under oath!!!But then again you right wingers love that as DIRTY DONALD does it day in and day out every day.

 

One thing that I saw on Twitter and must agree with Ed Gillispe who ran against this moron for governor should demand a refund from his oppo research team.

 

Its too bad you can't prove that laughable claim. Another tin foil hat conspiracy.

 

This was acceptable at that time. Imagine making a movie like Blazing Saddles today?

 

Slavery was acceptable at the time, yet whites are still being blamed 160 years later

 

so tell me what has Trump ever done or say that is the racist equivalent of wearing a KKK outfit or Blackface?
Trump has done more for the black community then any other president in recent history also don't forget Trump dated a black women what white president do you know that ever dated a black women?
so this fake ass narrative that Trump is racist is just that a fake ass narrative

 

no it wasn't I was in high school in the 1980s and no wearing a KKK outfit or blackface wasn't acceptable or common and I live in the deep south

 

obviously they were mocking racists... but the right will spin it

 

I keep hearing about these supposed lies but no one has yet to produce what lies?

 

it was not as unacceptable then as it is now.... different times... people were doing what they could to mock racism back then, some of that would seem offensive by today's standards

 

He's a democrat and get's a pass. I am sure people on this forum will give him a pass because he is a democrat as well. Gawd forbid if he was Republican, it will be on every media/MSM outlet there is, calling for impeach, impeach, and declaring him to resign. All he does is give an apology.

 

don't know the guy, but would judge him by his actions, not this old picture unless it coincided with his actions and words, if he is done anything in real life that seems racist in the least, he will be done for

 

obviously
because a racist would never join the party of slavery the KKK and Jim Crow

 

you mean southern Conservative Christians, Burning the Cross to shine the light of their lord on the people in the night? declaring their God given right to own slaves - sick group of people, and today they fight to keep confederate statues up... Sad!

 

like lowering the black unemployment to being the lowest in American history? giving pardons to black inmates? dating a black women? those types of actions?

 

yeah, you mean like a white President trying to steal the credit from the black President that caused that lower unemployment trend... Sad!

 

He should resign from office.

 

actually why are we just seeing this now?
who was in charge of opposition research for the republican candidate last election
this racist would never been elected if this picture came out during the election
someone dropped the ball its not like a year book isn't easily accessible