Skinny Puppy wrote:Well at least the Democrats are lookin' out for... ah,
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam apologized on Friday for appearing in a "clearly racist and offensive" costume in his 1984 medical school yearbook. The photo shows a person wearing blackface standing next to another person wearing a Ku Klux Klan robe.
Criticism from the right and left mounted Friday night, including calls for the governor to resign.
Northam, a Democrat, said in a statement: "I am deeply sorry for the decision I made to appear as I did in this photo and for the hurt that decision caused then and now."
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/02/02/calls-for-resignation-virginia-governor-apologizes-racist-yearbook-photo
How about actually talking to the only Virginian on this forum who has been following this closely for the past couple days.
Governor Ralph Northam after fiercely defending the rights for Women to have abortions up til term all of a sudden finds himself on the defensive from both the left and the right due to a yearbook picture 35 years ago. The picture was not breaking the law, but was offensive and distasteful.
I’ve been hyper critical of both the left and the right on their handling of this situation. I saw this as an obvious whistleblowing attempt from the right to discredit Governor Northam. The left jumped on it and seek to crucify Northam to bury the hatchet instead of making the mature and more reasonable decision to accept that people can drastically change in 35 years and that Northam’s recent actions including running with our LT Governor Fairfax who is a black Virginian are clear signs Northam is not currently a racist.
But what I find mind boggling laughable are the the Republicans who are gleeful about this while defending the racist piece of shit residing in the Oval Office.
So there you go SP. a Virginian Democrat weighs in on the matter. Your point?