Ralph Northam yearbook page shows men in blackface and KKK robe

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Anonymous wrote:Still the best voice on CNN:
https://mobile.twitter.com/RedMeansGo33/status/1091547640557379585

GREAT! THANK YOU!

Wow she’s awesome.

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He needs to resign! He appeared as a kkk member when he was 24 yrs old while in med school. He was no kid at that age.

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The most messed up thing about this is that he was at a party in MEDICAL school where future doctors were not only present but we're apparently also dressed in the same fashion. These doctors probably now serve Black patients. Terrible.

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I'm a liberal who voted for him but he does have to resign. He does.

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Leave it to CNN to screw up its reporting, again. Question is... was it intentional, or just a mistake by some low level intern?

CNN -- the network that promotes the hashtag #FactsFirst -- mislabeled embattled Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam as a Republican on Friday during a segment about the Democrat's apology for his racist 1984 medical school yearbook photo.

The photo showed two men holding beers -- one dressed in blackface, the other in a KKK robe -- but Northam never made clear which one was him.


The CNN chyron that mistakenly called Northman a Republican aired Friday during "Anderson Cooper 360," the nightly show hosted by Anderson Cooper. The segment focused on a video in which Northam apologized for the nearly 35-year-old photograph.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cnn-chyron-falsely-identified-ralph-northam-as-republican-during-segment-on-blackface-kkk-yearbook-controversy

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Anonymous wrote:Leave it to CNN to screw up its reporting, again. Question is... was it intentional, or just a mistake by some low level intern?

CNN -- the network that promotes the hashtag #FactsFirst -- mislabeled embattled Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam as a Republican on Friday during a segment about the Democrat's apology for his racist 1984 medical school yearbook photo.

The photo showed two men holding beers -- one dressed in blackface, the other in a KKK robe -- but Northam never made clear which one was him.


The CNN chyron that mistakenly called Northman a Republican aired Friday during "Anderson Cooper 360," the nightly show hosted by Anderson Cooper. The segment focused on a video in which Northam apologized for the nearly 35-year-old photograph.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cnn-chyron-falsely-identified-ralph-northam-as-republican-during-segment-on-blackface-kkk-yearbook-controversy

While this is a mistake, I am sure it has been, or will be corrected. The bigger question is, why is this activity acceptable to republicans but not to democrats? Or worse, why is this unacceptable to republicans but Steve King and Stephen Miller are just fine.

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It’s sad, but not surprising, that people prioritize a tasteless joke from 35 years ago over a lifetime of actions and policies.

Northam has done llittle in his political career to suggest that he is an actual racist. Other Democrat darlings actually hurt minorities with their “tough on crime” rhetoric and policies, but because they didn’t dress up in a costume 35 years ago, they have the nerve to call for Notham’s head.

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I read the first and last page. Go back to the Nathan Phillips thread and read all the comments about black face being unforgivable. No one defends it. Bunch of hypocrites.

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Anonymous wrote:He needs to resign! He appeared as a kkk member when he was 24 yrs old while in med school. He was no kid at that age.

Agree.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s sad, but not surprising, that people prioritize a tasteless joke from 35 years ago over a lifetime of actions and policies.

Northam has done llittle in his political career to suggest that he is an actual racist. Other Democrat darlings actually hurt minorities with their “tough on crime” rhetoric and policies, but because they didn’t dress up in a costume 35 years ago, they have the nerve to call for Notham’s head.

The fact someone would ever consider doing that let alone adding it to their yearbook shows questionable judgment. Surely you can see how someone cannot effectively lead a state or be part of politics that claim to address systemic racism with that in their background? I voted for him so I don't call for his resignation lightly but this is simply not acceptable. I cannot hold republicans and Trump admin to task for racist statements and beliefs and policies if I can't do the same for my own party.

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Anonymous wrote:I read the first and last page. Go back to the Nathan Phillips thread and read all the comments about black face being unforgivable. No one defends it. Bunch of hypocrites.

O-u-c-h!

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Anonymous wrote:It would be good if he did resign, then Virginia could have its first African American governor.

It's sad that this is how it had to happen, but Virginia is still a backwards state, filled with violent racists, and frankly, it would probably never elect a black governor on their own in a general election. Not in several more generations at least. There's still to many white trash confederate flag rednecks to ever vote for a black man, so this is probably the only way it could happen.

Um, hello? Douglas Wilder?

The stupid is strong here.

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The Governor is an evil man - in many ways, not just this.

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An old white man is a racist?

Say it ain’t so!

He likely also a misogynist.

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Anonymous wrote:Your past doesn’t define your future. What matters is what you do and believe now. I would identify as Republican but I don’t think he needs to resign. He should just apologize and then everybody can move on with their lives. Everyone’s done something stupid in the past, everyone.

What about Roy Moore? How did what he did and what he was accused of stack up? The GOP still supported him. I think this idea that "everyone's done something stupid in the past" is dangerous when you are talking about things that hurt other people.
It isn't a right to be an elected representative of the people. It is a privilege.

Roy Moore did not get elected, even in a very conservative state like Alabama. He's never been widely admired, and he's always seemed a bit "off" to rational people. Nonetheless, claims of actual pedophilia were exaggerated. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders defines pedophilia as when an individual over 16 years of age experiences "recurrent, intense sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors involving sexual activity with a prepubescent child or children (generally age 13 years or younger)."