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Post by Admin on Feb 2, 2019 13:25:16 GMT -4
WASHINGTON – The backlash was nearly instant.
Within hours of a photo surfacing on Friday that showed Virginia's Democratic governor in a photo showing two people dressed in blackface in Ku Klux Klan robes, a chorus calling for Ralph Northam to resign grew and spread across social media.
The photo was part of Northam's 1984 yearbook during his last year at Eastern Virginia Medical School. A half-page with four photos of Northam included one of two people, one in a blackface costume and the other wearing a KKK robe.
Northam admitted he was in the photo and apologized, but did not detail which of the pictured individuals he was dressed up as.
So, who is Ralph Northam? Here's what you should know:
Gov. Ralph Northam's 1984 medical school yearbook shows a photo of a man dressed in blackface and a second person in a KKK robe (Photo: Eastern Virginia Medical School)
Soft-spoken and moderate Northam is widely viewed as a moderate within his party, someone who says he voted twice for former Republican President George W. Bush.
He has described himself as a fiscal conservative but socially liberal, as Northam has advocated for tighter gun laws and loosening abortion restrictions. Republicans in the state at one point tried to recruit Northam to switch parties, according to the New York Times, something Northam rejected.
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