Friday, February 1, 2019

Abortion Advocate VA. Governor In Blackface, Or?



A photo from Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s medical school yearbook is stirring up a new, potentially disastrous controversy around the man who earlier this week appeared to be advocating infanticide.
The photo shows two men, one in blackface and one in a Ku Klux Klan robe and hood, on the same page as the governor.
The photo (which a newspaper obtained a copy of Friday from the Eastern Virginia Medical School library) comes from the 1984 yearbook, the year Northam graduated. The implications here are not good -- not good at all.
On the half-page set aside for Northam, there is a headshot of him in a jacket and tie (above, left), a photo of him in a cowboy hat and boots and a third of him sitting casually on the ground, leaning against a convertible.
But it's the fourth photo on the half-page that sets off  the alarm. It shows two people, one wearing white Ku Klux Klan robes and a hood, the other with his face painted black. The person with the black face is also wearing a white hat, black jacket, white shirt with a bow tie and plaid pants. Both are holding canned drinks.
It’s still unclear who the people in costume are but why is this on the half-page set aside for Northam where all the other pictures of him are?
Also, there's this quote on Northam's half-page: "there are more old drunks than old cots in this world so I think I'll have another beer."

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