First, Northam implicity admits that he submitted the photo to be included on his yearbook page. That alone is despicable and inexcusable enough to require nothing less than resignation. Then he really steps in it: "...I am not surprised by [the photo's] appearance in the EVMS yearbook. In the place and time where I grew up, many actions that we rightfully recognize as abhorrent today were commonplace" with the tone of voice and facial expression on "commonplace" conveying a dismissive attitude that I find infuriating. It was 1984, not 1954. It was Norfolk, not Mississippi. You were 25 and a medical doctor in training, not a 16 year old redneck hooligan. It was a medical school yearbook, not a neighborhood Xeroxed newsletter for kicks. Resign already. You are embarrassing all of us Virginians, and making a fool of yourself. #RalphNorthamResign#Whatthehelliswrongwithwhitepeople?
Are we to believe that when friends saw the yearbook, they never mentioned to him that there was a photo of a white man in blackface and a man in a KKK hood and robe on his yearbook page? Or are we left to believe that of course they did, but it didn't seem important enough to him to raise holy hell about such a "mistake" by the yearbook
I'll pay attention to state politics again when our commonwealth is governed by a Fair- consideration of the -fax (see what I did there?) Until then, I'll be like a groundhog who saw her shadow.
Holiday cheer.
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