Posted on 02/10/2019 1:32:18 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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?
So if 6’1” Northam is under the hood, how tall is the person in blackface?
The number of very tall people is small when limited to a person's circle of friends. Who did Northam know who was taller than he is? How about when they were back in high school or college?
This make me think that it can't be Northam in the KKK costume, because there likely aren't many people he knew back then who were a head taller than he is.
-PJ
I THINK IT WAS AL SHARPTON.
Using eye levels, that can all be measured out, if the right experts want to spend about five minutes on it.
Protecting his wife. Who said chivalry is dead
6’8” or taller
The black-faced person I estimate at 3 inches (the distance from my mouth to my eyes) taller than the KKK person. In 1984, Northam was 25. He would have been 6’ 1” by that age. However, I think the photo was taken when he was in high school, judging from the plaid pants which were in fashion in the 1970s. He may have been shorter than the 6’ 1” then. He graduated from Onancock High School—a predominate black high school—in 1977. Perhaps the black face person is actually a black fellow high school student participating in a joke photo. Blacks are known to be quite tall in their teen years. Northam played high school baseball and basketball. He may have been on Northam’s basketball or baseball team. Check the basketball and baseball team photos.
This is just my theory, for people to think about.
I suspected a woman was under the KKK hood, because that individual was so much shorter.
He knows exactly who, where, and when.He picked the picture.Never trust a liar.
Those are man hands under the hood. Besides, EEE is always wrong.
You could be correct.
It could be a short man.
The klan person is shorter than Erastus in the photo. Hmmm.
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.....
You have a lot of details for not knowing the pic is from med school.
Ralph Northam’s Onancock High School basketball team photo here:
https://www.classmates.com/siteui/yearbooks/4182831803?page=71
I took a screen shot of the page and was able to copy just the men’s basketball team (there is a small dialog box on the bottom of the photo to do it). Then I copied it into Microsoft Paint and got the image so I could enlarge it. (I would post in photo bucket, if I knew how, but I hope someone else would do it).
If any of the members of Northam’s basket ball team were actually the “black face” person in the photo, I would say it was the person in the front row, second one to our left judging from the head shape. There is one in the back row who fits the height profile: the third one to our right.
Thank you. It took some digging, but I got good info.
“I hear that back then, people went to parties in pairs, typically one male and one female.”
Yes, when America was still America there was this thing called dating.
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
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