Anonymous wrote:If Northam had his way, some of you wouldn’t be here. You would have been killed after delivery.


The guy is awful

Anonymous wrote:I haven't read the entire thread, and I'm not a liberal, nor am I white...

Obviously, what he did was horrible, but, this was decades ago. Has he done/said anything else before and since that would be considered racist?

If not, then I think a heartfelt apology is good enough, and he should finish out his term. Otherwise, if he shown in the past his racist viewpoints and tendencies, then yes, he should resign.

If Evangelicals can give Trump several Mulligans for Trump's past sins, why can't Dems forgive Northam for a stupid stunt that happened decades ago?

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Anonymous wrote:So where did Planned Parenthood find this picture? And how long were they holding it? Did they keep it under glass with a little hammer next to it, for just such an emergency?

Why do you think planned parenthood exposed the pic?

Why are you asking so many questions in the previous posts? Why? Why? Why?????

Anonymous wrote:I'm white, a democrat, from the south but not virginia. He needs to resign. He should have already.

Racism isn't just big stuff like KKK and white nationalism.. Casual racism kills people too.

Racial disparity across incomes
In recent years, as high rates of maternal mortality in the U.S. have alarmed researchers, one statistic has been especially concerning. According to the CDC, black mothers in the U.S. die at three to four times the rate of white mothers, one of the widest of all racial disparities in women's health. Put another way, a black woman is 22 percent more likely to die from heart disease than a white woman, 71 percent more likely to perish from cervical cancer, but 243 percent more likely to die from pregnancy- or childbirth-related causes. In a national

of five medical complications that are common causes of maternal death and injury, black women were two to three times more likely to die than white women who had the same condition.

from https://www.npr.org/2017/12/07/568948782/black-mothers-keep-dying-after-giving-birth-shalon-irvings-story-explains-why



and https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/26/black-maternal-mortality-babies-san-francisco-crisis

Linda Jones, an Oakland-based doula and co-founder of Black Women Birthing Justice, sees where this leads in the delivery room. In December, Jones’s group published Battling Over Birth: Black Women and the Maternal Health Care Crisis, a book based on 100 interviews with black women on their childbirth experiences. Many of the women’s stories, Jones said, were traumatic and dehumanizing. Women described being ignored or disrespected by hospital staff. One mother, named Zanthia, said she was hit by a nurse after she refused to stop pushing while nurses fetched a doctor.

“It doesn’t matter what your strata in life is, as long as you’re black you’re treated the same way,” she said.

Jones said there had been little urgency to the issue of black maternal and infant mortality in the city – unlike the battle against the Aids epidemic in the 1980s when affluent white men were dying.

“The Black Lives Matter campaign came about because young black men are getting killed by the police,” Jones said. “But we feel the same thing is happening to black women and their children during childbirth.”

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Anonymous wrote:The death mongers propped this guy up. They relied on him to ram through this law, before Amy Barrett replaces RBG. He botched the interview. To detract from the issue of his law's hideousness, his handlers pulled out the kill shot of this pic (which they’re been holding) to distract anger away from law.

Why do you hate women so much?

Racial disparity across incomes
In recent years, as high rates of maternal mortality in the U.S. have alarmed researchers, one statistic has been especially concerning. According to the CDC, black mothers in the U.S. die at three to four times the rate of white mothers, one of the widest of all racial disparities in women's health. Put another way, a black woman is 22 percent more likely to die from heart disease than a white woman, 71 percent more likely to perish from cervical cancer, but 243 percent more likely to die from pregnancy- or childbirth-related causes. In a national

of five medical complications that are common causes of maternal death and injury, black women were two to three times more likely to die than white women who had the same condition.

Linda Jones, an Oakland-based doula and co-founder of Black Women Birthing Justice, sees where this leads in the delivery room. In December, Jones’s group published Battling Over Birth: Black Women and the Maternal Health Care Crisis, a book based on 100 interviews with black women on their childbirth experiences. Many of the women’s stories, Jones said, were traumatic and dehumanizing. Women described being ignored or disrespected by hospital staff. One mother, named Zanthia, said she was hit by a nurse after she refused to stop pushing while nurses fetched a doctor.

“It doesn’t matter what your strata in life is, as long as you’re black you’re treated the same way,” she said.

Jones said there had been little urgency to the issue of black maternal and infant mortality in the city – unlike the battle against the Aids epidemic in the 1980s when affluent white men were dying.

“The Black Lives Matter campaign came about because young black men are getting killed by the police,” Jones said. “But we feel the same thing is happening to black women and their children during childbirth.”

and https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/26/black-maternal-mortality-babies-san-francisco-crisis

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Anonymous wrote:So where did Planned Parenthood find this picture? And how long were they holding it? Did they keep it under glass with a little hammer next to it, for just such an emergency?

Why do you think planned parenthood exposed the pic?

Anonymous wrote:The death mongers propped this guy up. They relied on him to ram through this law, before Amy Barrett replaces RBG. He botched the interview. To detract from the issue of his law's hideousness, his handlers pulled out the kill shot of this pic (which they’re been holding) to distract anger away from law.

Anonymous wrote:The death mongers propped this guy up. They relied on him to ram through this law, before Amy Barrett replaces RBG. He botched the interview. To detract from the issue of his law's hideousness, his handlers pulled out the kill shot of this pic (which they’re been holding) to distract anger away from law.

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Anonymous wrote:What an unfortunate situation.

It is time to heal and move on. Stewing over this poor past decision only helps the Rethugs and Trumpies

Did you even read the post upthread from the woman whose grandmother would hide her family in the backrooms when the KKK rode past their home?

Northam needs to go. I don't believe for one minute that he didn't know about that photo, and the fact that first didn't admit which racist character he was in the photo leads me to think he was the one in the KKK robe.


Justin Fairfax will be an amazing governor.

He will be “amazing”? Based on what exactly?