[dynachrome]

Probably a black buddy of his? Assuming he was not a true racist.

[satan]

Tim Kaine

[DallasBiff]

If you watch the initial news conference, she was his puppet master.

[Caipirabob]

Or was it just another guy under the hood.

But still his date. You never know with dims.

[Buttons12]

That’s almost certainly a female. I hear that back then, people went to parties in pairs, typically one male and one female.

[conservative98]

The yearbook is from Virginia.

They met in San Antonio.

http://www.nbc12.com/story/37210117/meet-virginias-new-first-lady-pam-northam/

[RightGeek]

[blueunicorn6]

“Ralph, when you said you wanted to get me under the sheets, I had a little different idea than this.”

[campaignPete R-CT]

Guy in plaid pants was friend of Northam.
Other photograph is online. Northampton is tall

[dowcaet]

This is a strange way to throw a woman under the “sheets”!

[ifinnegan]

It may be a random photo he put on his yearbook page that he thought was funny.

The key to it was they were both drinking beer together.

[immadashell]

If they haven’t forced him out by now they will never force him out. (Sigh)

[Williams]

How can people know the kkk person was “too tall” without knowing the height of the blackface? Further I don’t think you can see their feet, maybe the kkk stepped up on something to be taller than the “victim”. Photos can be misleading. If he wasn’t the kkk he would have said that.

[jonrick46]

My answer to the question is Ralph was under the KKK hood and his wife was in black face. However, Ralph met his wife, Pam, later than the 1984 yearbook photo. She was working as a pediatric occupational therapist in 1986 in San Antonio, Texas, when she met her future husband, Ralph, during his pediatric neurology residency.

So, who is the black-faced mystery person if Ralph is hiding under the KKK hood?

[odawg]

Using eye levels, that can all be measured out, if the right experts want to spend about five minutes on it.

[marktwain]

I suspected a woman was under the KKK hood, because that individual was so much shorter.

[georgia peach]

He knows exactly who, where, and when.He picked the picture.Never trust a liar.

[Bonemaker]

The klan person is shorter than Erastus in the photo. Hmmm.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Don’t know about his wife, but the figure under the KKK hood has always impressed me as being female - narrow shoulders and shorter in height - wife or girlfriend would make sense.....

[chuckee]

Dave Chappelle. Always like that classic skit where he is blind from birth and not aware he is black and is a hooded Klan leader railing against blacks in the Klan meeting