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[quote=Anonymous]Press conference earlier today to give the results of the yearbook investigation.  A reminder - Northam is still governor.

[quote]An investigation ordered up by a Virginia medical school failed to determine whether Gov. Ralph Northam is in a 1984 yearbook photo of a man in blackface next to someone in a Ku Klux Klan hood.

Investigators with a law firm hired by Eastern Virginia Medical School said Wednesday they couldn't "conclusively determine" the identities of either person in the 35-year-old photo.

They also said they couldn't discern how the picture was placed on Northam's yearbook page, but found no evidence it was placed there by mistake or as a prank.

The report found no one "with first-hand knowledge of an actual mistake on any page, including any personal page, within the 1984 yearbook."

A man now living in the Shenandoah Valley who served as a page designer for the EVMS yearbook in 1984 told WHSV that the yearbook staff only published pictures that were given to them and he saw the chance of a mix-up being very unlikely.[/quote]

https://www.whsv.com/content/news/Probe-done-on-blackface-photo-in-Virginia-govs-yearbook-510216641.html

And, then there is this.,......

https://twitter.com/patrickmwilson/status/1131219049474658304

"In each case, the President of EVMS decided that the school should not take steps to publicly announce the Photograph or to call Governor Northam’s attention to it."

Eastern Virginia Medical School knew about Northam's racist yearbook photo for years and kept it quiet. The photo was taken to two EVMS presidents in "periods when Governor Northam was
running for different public offices." The McGuireWoods report: https://www.evms.edu/media/evms_public/departments/diversity_office/final-evms-report-with-exhibits.pdf …

"The EVMS personnel decided to remove the 1984 yearbook from the table at the reunion event so as not to upset anyone who might see the Photograph. The EVMS personnel who became aware of the Photograph expressed surprise and disappointment in the Photograph."

"the staff members were advising the President at the time of the Photograph and asking if EVMS had an obligation to or should do something about it, such as notifying Governor Northam about it."

[b]The two EVMS presidents who kept quiet about the racist yearbook photo were both donors to Northam:[/b]

Harry Lester: https://www.vpap.org/donors/4610/recipient/257049/?start_year=all&end_year=all&recip_type=all …

Richard Homan: https://www.vpap.org/donors/226456-richard-v-homan/?start_year=all&end_year=all …

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