Posted on 02/03/2019 3:50:24 AM PST by C19fan
If Ralph Northam hoped to use his extraordinary press conference on Saturday to convince top Virginia Democrats to side with him as others call for his swift resignation, the governor failed.
Stunningly. Northam's hour-long news conference about a racist photo showing one person dressed in blackface and another in the Ku Klux Klan's signature white hood and robes in his medical school yearbook page was an inflection point in the saga that now drags into its third day. The bizarre press conference at the governor's mansion featured denials that he ever dressed up in a KKK robe and hood, pledges that he was never drunk enough to forget a situation like that and a revelation that Northam once did darken his face to resemble Michael Jackson during a dance contest in 1984.
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” I also found it strange that no one in the class apparently complained.”
In those days (pre Obama) people weren’t whining, bitching and moaning about being “offended” by everything under the sun. Then along came Obama and weaponized/stirred up racial strife for political purposes.
“In 1984 the whole country was segregated.”
What country would that be?
almost feel sorry for the guy....not.
“Back before his untimely death, “
It was “untimely” because it didn’t happen earlier.
I heard he has no idea why they called him coonman in college.
“Northam is an old school Dem. “
“Old school” dems were’t abortion profiteers or gun control fanatics.
The chum in the water is causing the sharks to attack.
No, it would not.
who?
His date, his wife of course
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